Apple’s Metaverse

Some may consider this decision to be risky, even going out of business when there are already many competitors in stores offering excellent virtual reality products. The Metavers – in any case, what is still difficult for us to define today – it is an opportunity for growth and almost for the evolution of the technology that we currently use.

For a few years, Apple has really been making a plan: so confidential has put on the street a transition to born processors designed for the mobile world and with a consumption per watt that would be spectacular for any device dressable

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It is here that the company can take the turn: not witnessing a virtual universe to be used, but a change towards a hybrid reality modalitysomething like Mixed Reality: beyond augmented reality as we know it, but not as digital-only based as virtual reality.

the pieces that fit together

At the last WWDC22, Apple showed advances in tools that any developer can use to create mixed reality experiences: a better interpretation of reality by using the power of Apple Silicon processors and their 16 cores dedicated exclusively to Machine Learning. The improvement of the cameras and the addition that exponentially improves the whole with the use of LiDAR are probably the basis of something that we will see as a new generation of devices.

But when? Rumors – beware – point to a date as early as January 2023 for a first versionalmost a development kit (or a statement of intent, which

) with which the company would finally position itself in this race of different virtual/hybrid ecosystems: its own Appleback that would connect products and services in a new playground. We were already starting to talk about the history of the iPhone and its journey to extended reality in 2008.

Of all this, and the latest advances towards these future mixed reality glasses that many are already calling Apple Reality Pro, I speak with Julius Caesar Fernandez in this last episode.

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