Apple's AR/VR headset could turn your iPhone or iPad into a futuristic 3D desktop Apple's rumored mixed reality headset could change the way you use your iPhone and iPad. iMore · Mar 27, 2023
Meta’s Huge $500 Quest Pro Price Cut Reeks of Desperation The Quest Pro will now cost $999.99, one-third of its original price, while the 256GB Quest will start at $429.99. These drastic price cuts could position Quest headsets as way more affordable than Apple's rumored $3,000 mixed reality headset. Inverse · Mar 3, 2023
Apple Working On Simpler Way To Make AR Apps American tech giant Apple is apparently working on a way to let you make apps for its long-rumoured mixed reality headset using Siri. Read Full story on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Feb 1, 2023
Report: Apple Developing Software to Help Users Build Apps for Upcoming Headset Apple Inc is developing software to help users of its upcoming mixed-reality (MR) headset build their own augmented reality apps, the Information reported on Friday, citing four people who worked on the headset. According to a Bloomberg News report, the company was in talks with about half a dozen media… Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 27, 2023
Apple Tails Meta Into The Metaverse – Plans To Launch Reality Pro VR Headset This Fall Apple is ready to launch its first mixed reality headset after years of development, as the tech giant follows Meta's Oculus. Zenger · Jan 13, 2023
Figmin XR is proof you can still have fun in "professional" VR This tool for creating mixed reality experiences for the Quest Pro is weird in all the right ways and a breath of fresh air amongst all the VR productivity apps. Inverse · Dec 23, 2022
Quest Pro review: Weak software holds back excellent hardware The Quest Pro costs $1,500 and offers Meta's most advanced VR features yet, but it might not have the software experience to make just anyone more productive. Inverse · Dec 19, 2022
Microsoft HoloLens headsets used to connect remote patients with metropolitan doctors Once known only for immersive gaming, mixed reality is now being used to connect patients in remote parts of Australia to specialists located hours away. ABC News · Oct 30, 2022
Technology: Apple's Virtual Reality XR Headset Could Have 'Face ID' Like Tech To Make Payments Using Eyes Seems like Apple is upping the ante in the mixed reality competition by offering iris-scanning technology as the tech giant's forthcoming XR device. Read more on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Oct 17, 2022
Apple VR headset: price, release date, and specs With the release of Meta's Quest Pro VR headset, rumors about Apple’s rivaling VR/AR headset are heating up. Inverse · Oct 14, 2022
Meta Quest 3 — price, specs and latest news The Meta Quest 3 is out right now — starting at $499. Here's everything you need to know. Tom’s Guide · Oct 13, 2022
Meta Quest Pro: release date, features, and price The Quest Pro is Meta's next VR headset with an all-new design, brighter screens, and better controllers, and a big focus on mixed reality experiences. Inverse · Oct 11, 2022
Amazon is building the anti-metaverse with 'ambient intelligence' Amidst an hour of product updates, Amazon suggests pervasive access to Wi-Fi and Alexa is an alternative to the tech industry's obsession with mixed reality. Inverse · Oct 3, 2022
Meta’s Quest Pro headset may actually make mixed reality mainstream The Quest Pro VR headset improves on Meta's Quest 2 with three external high-res cameras for rendering crisp mixed reality. Inverse · Sep 29, 2022
The Conversation · Aug 23, 2022 Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video learning with features such as gamified interactive virtual worlds, virtual reality and mixed reality.
The Conversation · Aug 16, 2022 Mobile app offers new learning tools for anatomy students. But tech isn't a silver bullet For most people who finished school or university even a decade ago, the idea of virtual reality in the classroom probably seems like the stuff of science fiction. But immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality – which all aim to marry the physical and…
The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2022 UK medical students training on hologram patients in world-first The students at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge are using a new mix-reality training system called HoloScenarios.
Benzinga · Jun 22, 2022 Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Others Form Metaverse Governing Body; Apple's Name Missing Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA), and other tech giants striving to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster the development of industry standards. The initiatives look to make the companies' nascent digital worlds compatible. The Metaverse Standards Forum includes leading companies working in the space, from…
The Hindu · Jun 9, 2022 Microsoft’s mixed reality gets a black eye The talent exodus and the organisational rejig has dealt a blow to Microsoft’s vision of a mixed reality, making it reroute resources and people at a time when the market for AR/VR is heating up.
Benzinga · Jun 8, 2022 Microsoft Revamps MR Unit As Key Exec Said To Step Down Over 'Toxic Behavior' Complaints Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lost a key tech talent who was overseeing the development of the HoloLens mixed reality (MR) headset.
Input · Jun 7, 2022 How the Apple Watch is influencing Apple’s future Apple is giving iPhones and cars elements of watchOS' glanceable UI. This kind of bite-sized ambient computing could be crucial for a mixed reality headset.
Input · Jun 6, 2022 Apple’s AR headset was hiding in plain sight at WWDC 2022 At WWDC 2022, there were signs of Apple's mixed reality headset future everywhere in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.
Input · May 20, 2022 Apple is reportedly jamming 14 cameras into its mixed reality headset Apple's headset won't require the use of a separate base station, somehow.
Input · May 17, 2022 Jony Ive had one wacky idea for Apple's mixed reality headset A new report details Apple's internal conflicts over its long-rumored mixed reality headset and the odd features it might ship with.
Benzinga · May 12, 2022 Meta Looks To Cutback In Reality Labs In Its Quest For Metaverse Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division to refocus on hardware products and the "metaverse," Reuters reports. Meta was not planning layoffs as part of the changes. The division could not afford to do some projects anymore and postponed others. According to Reuters, Reality Labs lost…