One of America's most inspiring symbols, the Statue of Liberty located on New York's Liberty Island, now has an official iPhone app of its own. And with support for augmented reality, you can see Lady Liberty in your own world and rotate and explore her from all angles.
Apple has some exciting things in store for augmented reality (AR) developers, with a new report claiming that an updated ARKit framework will be able to detect human poses. Moreover, WWDC 2019 will allegedly see Apple's new app for visual AR content creation while developers will be getting a dedicated Swift-only software framework for augmented reality.
The next major updates to Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems are expected to bring developer support for stereo augmented reality (AR) headsets, as well as enhanced support for gaming controllers that feature touch pads (like Sony's DualShock controller).
Apple is rumored to be building an augmented reality headset that should release sometime next year, and now it has been revealed that the tech giant recently hired Arthur van Hoff, one of the co-founders of Disney-backed Jaunt VR, for its growing augmented reality team.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel today hosted the company's first developer conference where it launched cool new features for creators, including augmented reality camera improvements, games, an easier way to find the right augment reality filter at the right time and more.
Finish developer Rovio Mobile is opening pre-orders for a new Angry Birds augmented reality game ahead of launch in the spring. Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs, the latest game in the blockbuster franchise, takes full advantage of Apple's ARKit framework.
Following a November 2017 report from Bloomberg calling for an Apple augmented reality headset featuring a custom OS and chips, a revered analyst thinks it will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of this year ahead of launch in the second quarter of 2020.
Apple has named its first head of marketing related to the burgeoning field of augmented reality. Frank Casanova, a company veteran who has been at the Cupertino firm since 1988, has become its new chief of worldwide product marketing for augmented reality.
This year's followup to iPhone XS Max is expected to have a triple-lens camera while other 2019 handsets could eventually come with the upgraded system, but 2020 will bring substantial iPhone camera innovations in a major augmented reality push.
Snap, Inc. today introduced a new desktop app, called Camera, which brings the company's fun augmented reality effects and powerful face filters to a bunch of popular video chat apps on Mac and Windows, like YouTube, Skype, Google Hangouts, Twitch and more.
Cupertino doesn’t publicly announce all of its acquisitions, although the details of each are usually leaked soon after they occur. In the case of Apple’s purchase of Danish visual effects startup Spektral, it took nearly a year before the news trickled out.
Apple has confirmed acquiring a Longmont, Colorado-based startup, named Akonia Holographics, that specializes in making “vibrant” lenses for augmented reality (AR) glasses. The purchase price and date are unknown. The deal is yet another indication that the Cupertino tech giant has been developing an AR headset of its own.