Apple job listings and patents hint at foray into ‘3D mixed-reality world’ - Cointelegraph

Technology elephantine Apple appears to beryllium moving towards the improvement of a metaverse-sounding “3D mixed-reality world,” according to related patent filings and caller occupation postings.

Since Nov. 1, implicit 30 jobs person been listed connected Apple’s careers page related to augmented and virtual world (AR/VR) with the Big Tech subordinate seeking a premix of bundle and hardware engineers to beryllium mostly based successful its Technology Development Group (TDG).

TDG is simply a secretive squad wrong Apple that may reportedly stem arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2017, which is understood to beryllium moving connected developing AR and VR technology. Apple has ne'er officially confirmed specified a instrumentality was successful the works, though it is wide considered a tech manufacture “open secret.”

While Apple is presently hiring for implicit 150 positions according to its careers page, 1 peculiar occupation opening from August makes peculiar notation to a benignant of “3D mixed-reality world”.

The occupation advertisement is for an AR/VR web engineer, with portion of the statement reading:

“In this relation you volition enactment intimately with different developers and physique tools and frameworks to alteration connected experiences successful a 3D mixed-reality world.”

A Nov. 9 Digitimes report citing unnamed sources said an Apple AR/VR headset volition beryllium assembled by Taiwanese electronics steadfast Pegatron — a institution Apple presently uses for its iPhone 14 instrumentality — with wide accumulation expected successful Q1 2023.

A spokesperson for Pegatron told Cointelegraph it was “not capable to remark connected accusation related to a circumstantial lawsuit oregon merchandise owed to confidentiality.”

Cointelegraph contacted Apple for remark but did not person a response.

Meanwhile, patent filings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) uncover successful August that Apple trademarked “Reality One” and “Reality Pro”, some described arsenic “photographic and optical apparatus and instruments” and “virtual and augmented world headsets, goggles, and glasses.”

The filings were made nether a Delaware ammunition institution called “Immersive Health Solutions LLC”, a maneuver often utilized by ample companies specified arsenic Apple successful an effort to support their aboriginal merchandise plans private.

A search of Delaware’s concern entities shows the institution was created connected Feb. 11 by “The Corporation Trust Company” the world’s largest registered cause work steadfast used by Apple and different well-known companies specified arsenic Google, Walmart, and Coca-Cola.

The aforesaid steadfast was utilized successful a trademark application for a “RealityOS” successful Dec. 2021 successful what’s believed to beryllium Apple’s operating strategy utilized for its reported upcoming headset.

Other trademark filings, specified arsenic 1 made successful China nether Apple Inc., show a haptic “VR glove” tracking the question of idiosyncratic fingers which further constituent to the company’s play astatine a imaginable Metaverse space.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has already stated his thoughts connected the Metaverse, connected a Q1 2022 net telephone successful January erstwhile asked astir the company’s Metaverse opportunities said “we spot a batch of imaginable successful this abstraction and are investing accordingly.”

Multiple reports emerged successful Jan. 2022 that Apple was slated to merchandise the headset during its June Worldwide Developer Conference but didn’t travel to fruition owed to a bid of improvement challenges.