Recent occupation postings by Apple suggest that the tech elephantine aims to physique a 3D satellite for its yet-to-be-announced mixed-reality headset.
Apple’s VR and mixed world headset is nary longer a secret, but caller occupation listings uncover the institution is ramping up its enactment to bolster the instrumentality with content.
Apple has listed over 30 jobs related to augmented and virtual world (AR/VR) implicit the past fewer weeks. The positions usually look for a premix of bundle and hardware engineers for the tech giant’s secretive squad of Technology Development Group (TDG).
In 1 of the postings, Apple asks for a bundle shaper with acquisition successful ocular effects. Since specified a idiosyncratic would beryllium capable to make integer contented for augmented and virtual-reality environments, it indicates Apple mightiness beryllium trying to make contented for its mixed-reality headset.
Notably, a occupation seeking an AR/VR web technologist expressly mentions a benignant of “3D mixed-reality world.” “In this role, you volition enactment intimately with different developers and physique tools and frameworks to alteration connected experiences successful a 3D mixed-reality world,” a portion of the occupation posting reads.
Another occupation posting suggests that the tech elephantine plans to physique a video work for its upcoming headset featuring 3D contented that tin beryllium played successful virtual reality.
“You volition enactment intimately with Apple’s UI framework, quality interface designers and strategy capabilities teams—pushing you to deliberation outside-the-box, and lick incredibly challenging and absorbing problems successful the 3D exertion space," 1 presumption reads.
Apple to Compete With Meta Over Metaverse
Back successful July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in comments to employees that Apple and his institution are successful a “very deep, philosophical competition” to physique the metaverse.
As reported, Meta and a ample radical of tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, arsenic good arsenic 33 different tech giants racing to physique the metaverse, have announced that they person formed a group, dubbed The Metaverse Standards Forum, to make the infrastructure for an interoperable metaverse.
However, Apple is absent from the group, which further reinforces the mentation that the 2 tech giants are successful a contention to physique the metaverse.
Nevertheless, portion determination person been plentifulness of rumors and leaks astir Apple’s much-anticipated VR headset, the institution has not formally announced immoderate plans. Apple CEO Tim Cook previously told Dutch media outlet Bright that helium avoids utilizing the connection “metaverse.”
“I ever deliberation it’s important that radical recognize what thing is. And I’m truly not definite the mean idiosyncratic tin archer you what the metaverse is," helium said.