2013165438+1On October 24th, Apple acquired PrimeSense, an Israeli company that developed real-time 3D motion capture technology, which used to be Microsoft's Xbox.
Kinect designed the first motion sensor.
On May 28th this year, Apple took Metaio, a German augmented reality technology company, for $32 million.
In addition to acquiring a series of technology-related companies, Apple itself is also developing patents. Last June+February, 5438, Apple openly recruited ar/VR technical engineers, clearly indicating that these newly joined engineers would participate in the development of software and tools based on VR and AR.
In addition, in February this year, Apple obtained a patent, which can mainly realize the function of combining a head display with other portable electronic devices (such as iPhone) to watch virtual reality content. The patent wrote: "The whole earphone frame will place a portable electronic product display screen in front of the user, which will be the main display device of the earphone." In addition, Apple's patent also includes a remote control that users can hold in their hands to control the content on the display screen. Apple's invention is similar to the Gear introduced by Samsung last year.
VR is particularly similar.