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WHEN A TREND starts to develop and grow in popularity, it’s only a matter of time before one of the world’s biggest companies takes an interest.
Now Apple is looking for an App Engineer who will be able to develop apps and services that will work with VR, according to 9to5Mac.
The description says that the successful candidate “will create high performance apps that integrate with Virtual Reality systems for prototyping and user testing”.
Alongside VR, the job description also covers augmented reality suggesting that this position will focus mostly on bringing these experiences to its iPhone range instead of desktop.
If it does decide to focus more on VR, it has two real options. It could follow a similar system by Samsung, where it will team up with a company like Oculus VR and release their own product like the Gear VR. That device is similar to Google Cardboard where it uses a Galaxy Note 4 to run the VR experience.
Both Oculus and Samsung are asking app developers to create VR experiences for both platforms, and it’s unlikely that Apple will want to share the space with one of its biggest rivals.
The other option would be creating its own product like Sony and Project Morpheus. Apple already has a patent for a virtual reality headset, although the company has a reputation for filing numerous patents that don’t materialise.
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Apple are a joke
You’re not very funny either
What’s going on man you used to be cool?
Well, it was a dumb comment want it. Apple a joke ?
You want some?
Want some what, your wit?
Ironic considering people are walking around with their heads stuck in their phones avoiding the real world.
How about a vr lamposts avoidance game? Sure to be a bestseller..
That wouldn’t be considered ironic, quite the opposite in fact – it would be obvious, or expected..
Been there done that.
Red Alarm Trailer – Nintendo Virtual Boy: http://youtu.be/9cpnhAXoyWU
Can’t wait for their Walled Garden app
Google have a similar app where a guy follows you everywhere taking pictures of everything you look at.
That doesn’t sound similar, it sounds completely different.
I’ve been making presentations on virtual reality for the last year and keep reminding people that what allowed Oculus to bring this to market now, is that a VR headset is essentially a mobile phone. Granted, with a lot of optimizations. And without the radios… but you know what I mean.
It’s obvious that all high-end smartphones are going to serve dual purpose as VR headsets in a few short years – just pick up a head strap as an accessory. And the Galaxy Note 4 is the first step in that direction. What’s disappointing about Google Cardboard and other VR ‘head cases’ is that any other smpartphone will not deliver a good experience, due to high latency (you move your head and the image takes a long time to catch up = sea sickness). So that’s what’s great about the Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Gear VR — they worked with Oculus for a year to bring that latency right down, to something like 20ms, which is low enough that the brain doesn’t register it. But Oculus has been working on these problems for 2 years now so it’ll be interesting to see if Apple can go it alone and deliver the same kind of performance.
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