Category: headset

Apple hires one of ARM’s top chip designers

[ad_1] Filippo signed on in May. He’s working in Austin, a known hub for Apple’s semiconductor plans. His experience bodes well for many Apple products, since Apple uses ARM-based chips not just as the heart of its mobile hardware, but as companions in Macs. You could see iPhones and iPads that continue to push boundaries. […]

Apple hires the founder of VR content startup Jaunt

[ad_1] The hire comes just two months after HoloLens co-creator Avi Bar-Zeev left Apple following three years of work believed to be linked to the company’s planned AR headset. There are a number of potential applications for van Hoff’s experience. He could help with the development of the rumored headset, including the creation of content. […]

Valve’s Index VR headset will ship June 15th

[ad_1] You’ll need a reasonably powerful Windows PC to handle the Index. You’ll want a dual-core processor with hyperthreading, 8GB of RAM and either a GeForce GTX 970 or a Radeon RX480 for graphics, although Valve really wants you to have a quad-core CPU and GTX 1070-class video. There are certain reasonably safe expectations for […]

HTC’s work-oriented Vive Focus Plus headset arrives mid-April for $799

[ad_1] Most notably, you get dual six-degrees-of-freedom controllers instead of the simpler single controller from before. It’ll be much more useful for complex, precise tasks like the medical simulations we tried in February. You’ll also find sharper fresnel lenses that reduce the screen door effect you frequently see with the displays in VR headsets, and […]

Apple’s rumored AR headset might require an iPhone

[ad_1] The AR glasses, Apple’s first, will act as a display, and the computing, rendering, internet connection and location services will come from the user’s iPhone, Kuo said, as reported by 9to5Mac. In a lot of ways, this would be similar to the approach Apple took with the first few Apple Watch models, which needed […]