After scanning a circular code on a movie poster with my iPhone, a preview button popped up showing a cloud of Eternals characters hovering in the air above my desk. An app download invitation followed that. Disney’s AR tie-in to its new Marvel movie, Eternals, is an iOS-exclusive demo that aims to be for augmented …
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The Apple Watch’s display doesn’t feel so small anymore. In fact, it’s getting surprisingly expansive. The new, larger-screen Watch Series 7 didn’t get a ton of new changes, but its larger and slightly curved OLED screen is another step toward making Apple’s 6-year-old wearable feel like an all-screen device. All of this could eventually lead to a transformation of how Apple …
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Twenty years after the first iPod debuted, it’s hard to find whether iPods even exist anymore on Apple’s website. They do, technically: One iPod Touch model remains. But really, iPods are kind of everywhere now. In 2021, Apple has atomized the iPod and spread its spirit into everything else. In the fall of 2001, I was living in Los Angeles …
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How good can VR look? That answer has a sliding scale. Most everyday headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 look sharper and better than ever; others, like the HP Reverb G2, take another leap for simulation accuracy. Then there’s the Varjo Aero, a $1,990 headset arriving by the end of this year — where image quality (and price for the non-business …
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Apple just revamped the MacBook Pros at its latest October event, adding a ton of features, restoring some classic ports, bringing back MagSafe and removing the Touch Bar for good. Look closely and you can see some iPad Pro features making the jump to the Mac this time: mainly, the display. The Mini LED, ProMotion-enabled 120Hz Liquid Retina XDR display on …
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Apple’s rumored AirPods 3 didn’t make an appearance at the company’s California Streaming event, but Apple’s next-gen earbuds could still debut this year, possibly at Apple’s October event. (Here’s how to watch Apple’s Unleashed event live today and everything we could see like a new MacBook Pro.) Over the years, for some of us, AirPods have become an essential tool for work, school …
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A year after Facebook released its Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, and weeks before Facebook’s VR and AR-focused Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook CTO-to-be Andrew Bosworth showed off prototype VR headsets on social media. Whether these are anything related to products to come remains to be seen. I spent the day with the Facebook Reality Labs research team in …
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Magic Leap is still around, and the augmented-reality company is aiming a new headset at the business market to take on territory similar to Microsoft’s Hololens. Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson (formerly with Microsoft) revealed the new headset during a CNBC interview and in a blog post on Monday. Johnson told news outlets earlier this year that a new headset would …
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The Apple Watch Series 7 starts at $399 and is coming Oct. 15, with preorders starting this Friday, Oct. 8. It was announced at Apple’s event back in September, but after a short delay it’s making its way to stores soon. The changes don’t seem that dramatic: it has a larger display with thinner bezels, a faster-charging battery that promises 8 hours of …
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The Apple Watch Series 7 starts at $399 and is coming Oct. 15, with preorders starting this Friday, Oct. 8. It was announced at Apple’s event back in September, but after a short delay it’s making its way to stores soon. The changes don’t seem that dramatic: it has a larger display with thinner bezels, a faster-charging battery that promises 8 hours of …
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