In a series of patent filings published Thursday, Apple detailed technologies for its rumored upcoming AirPods Studio headphones, describing tech that identifies details about a person’s ears as well as new designs to fold headphones down flat for travel. In patent applications called Headphones With Increased Back Volume, Headphones With Magnetic Sensor and Headphones With Removable Ear …
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Facebook’s future plans for AR smartglasses are still in the works, but one part of the equation that could soon see the light of day is smart audio. Spatial audio and augmented audio reality are two arenas in which Facebook is actively interested, and the company’s newest Facebook Reality Labs research update details how the company plans to make devices …
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Bose has a new CEO. Former Pitney Bowes exec Lila Snyder will take the helm on Sept. 1, becoming the first woman in the CEO post at the audio stalwart. She’s filling a position that had been vacant since Phil Hess stepped down as CEO early this year. While the company has yet to make a formal announcement, Bose Chairman …
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The Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which Bose unveiled last year as the successor to the venerable QuietComfort 35 II, earned high marks from CNET’s David Carnoy when he went hands- (and ears-) on to see how well they lived up to the Bose name. And because they’re Bose headphones, they’re not inexpensive, usually priced at $400. But right now, …
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If you’re looking for top-shelf noise-canceling headphones and can’t decide between the Bose QuietComfort 35 II and Sony WH-1000XM3, this deal might sway you in favor of the latter. For a limited time and while supplies last, Amazon has the Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-canceling headphones for $248 — not quite the lowest price on record, but definitely preferable to the $350 list …
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Back in March I wrote about how Bose’s much-anticipated new true wireless earbuds were delayed, with a Bose spokesperson telling me “product development has taken longer than anticipated” and been compounded by coronavirus issues. The Earbuds 500, which I previewed in a post and video last June, didn’t make their 2019 release and ended up being pushed until 2020. The Noise-Cancelling 700 Earbuds, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. In case you missed it, Apple announced last month at its Worldwide Developers Conference that the AirPods Pro will get a big upgrade this fall with the release of iOS 14 (and the update of iPadOS, too): a “spatial audio” feature that simulates surround sound. While Apple …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s making an AR headset. Or glasses. Or an AR/VR headset. Something like that, something coming in 2021, 2022… or 2023. Reports have been everywhere; the pieces seem to be coming into place. And yet, at this year’s video-only WWDC conference in a …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. One of the reasons people buy AirPods is because it’s easy to connect them with any other Apple device they own, whether it’s an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac. That process of pairing your AirPods with your various Apple devices will soon become …
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Bose is shutting down its augmented reality program, according to a Monday report by Protocol. Key AR employees have reportedly left the company, and Bose has notified partners that their apps will no longer work in the coming weeks. “Bose AR didn’t become what we envisioned,” a company representative told Protocol. “It’s not the first time our technology couldn’t be …
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