Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was among the high-profile people who reviewed the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. In a video shared on his Instagram account, said that Meta Quest 3 is “the better product, period.” He again criticised the headset calling the “device worse in most ways.” In a post on Threads, Instagram’s X …
Apple released VisionOS 1.1 on Thursday with the most notable feature being improved personas of users. Specifically, the new update improves hair and makeup appearance, neck and mouth representation, and rendering of the eyes for EyeSight, which lets others see your eyes when you’re wearing the headset. Additionally, users can also now set up their …
Dan Riccio, Apple‘s former senior vice president of hardware engineering, is nearing retirement after over 25 years at the tech giant, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Riccio, who played a crucial role in developing products like the iMac, iPhone, iPad, and Macs with Apple silicon, handed over his hardware engineering leadership role …
Less than two weeks after purchasing the Apple Vision Pro, many early buyers are returning the AR/VR headset. Apple offers a 14-day return on the Apple Vision Pro. Those who bought the headset on the day of release (February 2nd) have until February 16th to return the device. Although Apple has not released stats regarding …
The Vision Pro AR/VR headset launched recently, with more than 600 apps available. Now, a new report indicates that half of the Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads. The report comes from Appfigures, an app intelligence firm, which says 52 percent of Vision Pro-only apps in the VisionOS store are paid downloads. 35 percent don’t …
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. Today, Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced its new product, Frame, a pair of lightweight AR glasses …
The foundational vocabulary of any new medium is inherited from that of its predecessor. Take, for instance, the early days of television, when so many shows were effectively radio programs caught on film. The new medium’s success is dependent on the development of its own vocabulary, distinguishing itself from earlier paradigms. In the case of …
Google reportedly plans to develop a YouTube app for the Apple Vision Pro. The Verge says a YouTube spokesperson confirmed the company’s plans to make a native Vision Pro app, while it optimizes YouTube for Safari as a stopgap. The U-turn comes after developer Christian Selig (creator of the popular Apollo app that Reddit killed …
In 2000, Paradox Press published “Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form.” The book was Scott McCloud’s follow-up to his seminal 1993 work, “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.” Where the earlier title explored the history and visual language of sequential art, the second volume finds the medium at a crossroads. The …
Apple’s Vision Pro is here — along with a solid collection of third-party launch apps. Although there are some big-name omissions (Netflix, YouTube and Spotify), the headset already supports over a million compatible App Store apps, Apple’s first-party offerings and over 600 apps developed specifically for the “spatial computing” device. Here are the notable third-party …