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Apple Vision Pro was announced at Apple's 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC23) on June 5, 2023, to launch in early 2024 in the United States at a starting price of US$3,499. [2] [37] On June 6, the day after the announcement, Apple acquired the AR headset startup Mira, whose technology is used at Super Nintendo World's Mario Kart ride.
Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992 [2]) is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.
According to Greg Jones, director of AR and VR at Google, augmented reality is going to "reconnect physical and digital retail". [184] AR technology is also used by furniture retailers such as IKEA, Houzz, and Wayfair. [184] [182] These retailers offer apps that allow consumers to view their products in their home prior to purchasing anything.
Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term to refer to augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR). The technology is intended to combine or mirror the physical world with a "digital twin world" able to interact with it, [1] [2] giving users an immersive experience by being in a virtual or augmented environment.
Yes (AR tracking, Optitrack and Lighthouse) LCD Dual 2560x1440 — 16:9 90 Hz 60 Hz — 3.5 mm audio jack, built-in microphone DisplayPort 1.2 1080 g: Discontinued ($9000 at release) [49] No No No No Yes No No No 6DoF headset only Yes Deepoon VR E3 [50] 2017-03-29 [51] Yes (360º laser room-scale positioning) AMOLED: 1280x1440 11.63 8:9 70 Hz 110º
The developer had been a successful second-party studio for Meta since 2017, and had produced the VR games Wilson's Heart, B-Team, Defector, and Path of the Warrior, all exclusively for Oculus platforms. Additionally, in October 2021, Meta announced they were purchasing Within, the studio behind the successful VR fitness app, Supernatural.
Vuforia is an augmented reality software development kit (SDK) for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications. [1] It uses computer vision technology to recognize and track planar images and 3D objects in real time.
PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies (formerly VideoLogic) that develops hardware and software for 2D and 3D rendering, and for video encoding, decoding, associated image processing and DirectX, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and OpenCL acceleration.