{"id":21459,"date":"2016-02-01T05:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/apples-working-on-super-secretive-virtual-reality-technology"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:08:56","slug":"apples-working-on-super-secretive-virtual-reality-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/apples-working-on-super-secretive-virtual-reality-technology","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Working On Super Secretive Virtual Reality Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FzVqazVk_vhs%3Ffeature%3Doembed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzVqazVk_vhs&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FzVqazVk_vhs%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=a0e34f678e9a44f4b746684241ddaf3f&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s quietly building a small army of virtual reality developers, and has been working on a headset for several months, but it\u2019s been typically vague about its plans with the public. And on Friday, company representatives confirmed it\u2019s made yet another another acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,\u201d Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d9d3b86c-c67f-11e5-808f-8231cd71622e.html#axzz3ylQ6q1ZV\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Tim Bradshaw of the <em>Financial Times<\/em>, confirming its buy of Flyby Media, a company that \u201cis dedicated to building new technology that can elevate, rather than replace, our real-world experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flyby Media specializes in SLAM \u2014 simultaneous localization and mapping \u2014 a technology that uses a camera and sensors to track an object\u2019s position in real time, something needed for augmented and virtual reality. Flyby also worked with Google on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/atap\/project-tango\/about-project-tango\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Tango<\/a>, which \u201cgives a mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world similar to how we do as humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/10843-what-s-up-with-apple-s-virtual-reality-plans?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s quietly building a small army of virtual reality developers, and has been working on a headset for several months, but it\u2019s been typically vague about its plans with the public. And on Friday, company representatives confirmed it\u2019s made yet another another acquisition. \u201cApple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56406,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions\/56406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}