In 2015, the tech giant purchased Metaio, a company makes Metaio Creator, an AR authoring tool. Apple has applied for multiple patents regarding AR and scooped up some AR-related companies. “With an average sale price of $1,300 we expect initial demand to be limited at just over 3 million units compared to 242 million iPhones that year.”īloomberg says the Cupertino, California-based company is working on several AR products, including digital spectacles that could connect wirelessly to an iPhone and beam content-movies, maps and more-to the wearer. “We believe Apple see’s the AR future as a combination of the iPhone and some form of a wearable,” Munster predicts. Venture capitalist Gene Munster thinks “Apple Glasses” will arrive in 2020. The tool is currently available for Oculus Go, Daydream, GearVR and Vive Focus, and was purpose-built with these mobile headsets in mind: “Cyber Paint is heavily optimized for mobile VR allowing for 4k 360° photosphere paintings and fluid simulation effects at 60 fps on 2015 era smart phones,” Crispin explains on his Linkedin page.Īpple is believed to be working on its own VR/AR headset. His Cyber Paint app (pictured) allows VR users to draw their own 2D and 360-degree pictures while wearing their headsets.
The article says he’ll be working as a prototyping researcher at the tech giant. Apple has hired Sterling Crimson, best known for building a paint app for mobile VR headsets, reports Variety.
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