Apple acquires small startups for their technology at a rate of one per every few weeks, TechCrunch reported Thursday, citing a report earlier today by Israeli newspaper Calcalist.
Contract manufacturer Foxconn has apparently moved semitransparent lenses for Apple's upcoming augmented reality (AR) headset from the prototype phase to trial production.
It's been taken for granted that Apple wants to build an augmented reality accessory rather than a virtual reality device, but a new report Friday from Bloomberg paints a picture of the company's AR/VR team altering their original plans due to internal divisions.
The rumor mill is really starting to ramp up attention on Apple's oft-rumored augmented reality glasses, which could be a strong indicator that they are actually going to launch at some point in the near future. Or maybe we're all just getting worked up for nothing.
Due to popular demand, a cool new demo that lets you cut and paste your surroundings into Photoshop using augmented reality is currently being turned into a proper iPhone app.
Prolific leaker Jon Prosser is saying that Apple's rumored head-mounted augmented reality accessory would drop between March and June of next year, later than originally anticipated.
An amazing video mockup, shared on YouTube yesterday by product designer Volodymyr Kurbatov, explores displaying useful Apple Card information in augmented reality.
Indoor navigation has plenty of room to improve, even from Apple's own efforts, and it sounds like the company just made a move to help in that regard.
We've been hearing about Apple's rumored augmented reality (AR) glasses for a long time now, and it sounds like Facebook may have jumped ahead of the company in one area.
Apple's oft-rumored augmented reality headset project seems to be chugging along with a new report Thursday suggesting that the iPhone maker might be testing the unreleased accessory with a ten pin bowling game and a controller that resembles HTC's Vive Focus.
The refreshed iPad Pro that was unveiled yesterday adds a LiDAR scanner, a first for Apple, to improve augmented reality experiences significantly. And what better way to explore the new tablet from all possible angles, in your home or work environment, than augmented reality?
The latest supply line rumors posted by DigiTimes affirm that some of next year's iPhones will sport displays with refresh rates half again or up to twice as fast as today's models, according to AppleInsider. Whether that means new iPhones will get ProMotion displays or something akin to them remains to be seen.
Rumors of faster iPhone screens first bubbled up over the summer. So this isn't the first time we're hearing about this. It's also important to note that iPhone X models and later already sample input from the display at up to 120 frames per second, but the display frequency refresh of those models has remained at 60Hz.
ProMotion has been a feature of the iPad Pro since 2017. When Apple introduced it it said the technology provided greater responsiveness with reduced latency to provide more fluid and natural drawing capabilities when paired with the Apple Pencil.
To help reduce the battery drain found on other devices with high refresh rates like the Pixel 4, Apple's ProMotion technology can increase the refresh rate on the parts of the screen to only where it's needed.
While ProMotion has been remarkable for its impact on Apple Pencil users, the Pencil isn't supported on iPhones. Yet higher refresh rate displays have other practical benefits, especially for users of games, AR, and other applications that may benefit from greater on-screen responsiveness.
Is the display refresh of your iPhone left you wanting something more akin to a Razer gaming phone? Or is this a nothingburger? Sound off in the comments and let us know.