According
to rumours, the mobile computing giant is joining forces with optic stalwart
Carl Zeiss to craft a new wearable
Apple is
rumoured to be venturing into augmented ormixed reality along with Carl Zeiss
AG. The information comes from a tech blogger named Robert Scoble who noticed
the surprisingly empty booth of Carl Zeiss in the middle of the AR/VR section
at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. “A Zeiss employee confirmed the rumours that Apple
and Carl Zeiss AG are working on a light pair of augmented reality or mixed
reality glasses that may be announced this year. (I thought it was next year
but now that I saw this I believe it will happen this year). I hear Meta is
getting ready to announce same with Lumus, the optic folks. And that explains
why there was no augmented reality in Zeiss's booth even though it was right in
the middle of the AR area,” said Robert Scoble in a Facebook post.
Zeiss is best-known as a for developing high-end optical systems used
in a range of applications from photolithography used in the manufacture of
silicon chips, to lenses used in consumer and mobile phone cameras.lenses. They
previously developed their own smartphone-paired VR headset called the VR One
Plus.
Over the past year, reports have surfaced about Apple quietly making a
push into the virtual reality and augmented reality space. CEO of Apple Tim
Cook on numerous occasions has stated his preference of augmented reality over
virtual reality as the next key mobile technology.
“Augmented reality will take some time to get right, but I do think
that it's profound. We might … have a more productive conversation, if both of
us have an AR experience standing here, right?” Tim Cook said in an interview.
Adding further fodder to the claim, Apple has applied for a number of
patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office in the recent past. In 2014,
the company patented the “Transparent electronic device” and the “Head-Mounted
Display Apparatus For Retaining A Portable Electronic Device With Display” in
2016. Both patents point to a device that relays images which are to be placed
on the head.
Source:DNA-11th January,2017
