Apple already has hundreds of people working on virtual/augmented reality and new buyout

At all
start of the yearand again
until these last days, virtual reality at Apple was just one
hypothesis, one more prediction without any real certainty. But now
last night, the very serious newspaperFinancial Timesa
shares a report according to which the apple firm is currently in
full work on virtual reality with ateam of several
hundreds of people already working on the subject:

This is both surprising given the absence of concrete rumors
until then, but at the same time, several pieces of information overlapped until
there and showed a particular interest of the apple firm in reality
virtual and/or augmented.

Indeed, last year, we learned of the takeover of several companies
technology specialistslinked directly or indirectly to reality
virtual, as
Faceshift,
Emotive,Metaioor even
Primesense.

Lately, it's the companyFlyBy Media, specialist in
object recognition technologies
which was acquired by Apple. She notably worked for Google for
image recognition. Apple could take advantage of it, not for
photo or image, but good forimprove recognition of
physical world on videoas part of his reality project
virtual.

Added to this, various patents filed by Apple, one of which makes
from a helmetstrongly resembling a reality headset
virtual Oculus type
Rift.

Finally, the recruitment carried out by Apple is regularly observed by
analysts to detect trends and guess work in progress at
Apple. And in fact, the Cupertino company recently carried out arecruitment
focused on virtual reality, with the recent hiring of
Doug Bowman, a major American specialist in user interfaces in 3
dimensions.

We could therefore soon see Apple land on the still nascent market
of virtual reality.

Source

Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.