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Technology and communications giant Apple may be developing its own metaverse, recently posting several job openings in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). One of the job postings explicitly calls for engineers with experience in developing a “3D mixed reality world,” for the Technology Development Group, the company’s virtual reality division.
Apple posted a set of job postings on Nov. 13 that may provide some perspective on the direction the company is headed with regards to metaverse technology.
According to Bloomberg, the company is currently looking for engineers to develop content for the incoming VR headset, which will reportedly have high-resolution displays, a set of more than 10 cameras, and will pack Apple’s latest M2 chip, one of the fastest in the industry .
One of the job advertisements explicitly calls for engineers with the knowledge to develop a 3D world with mixed reality. This move could mean that Apple is already working on its own iteration of a metaverse platform like Meta’s Horizon Worlds, where users can meet, interact and build their own worlds.
The job listing notes that the selected engineers will “build tools and frameworks to enable connected experiences in a 3D mixed reality world.”
Another of the job openings requires engineers to build a 3D video platform with content suitable to be experienced via virtual reality hardware. Technavio’s report on the future of the metaverse in entertainment, released on November 11, also predicts the rise of such experiences and predicts that this will become a trend in the coming years, fueling the growth of the interactive film industry.
The company and its executives have been concerned about calling the various virtual experiences currently known as the metaverse, metaverse. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, believes that the term is too ambiguous and can be interpreted in many ways.
Cook told the publication Bright:
It is always important to me that people have a good understanding of what something is. And I’m really not sure the average person can tell you what the metaverse is.
In contrast, Cook is a big believer in AR and what it can bring to users of the technology, describing it as “a profound technology that will affect everything.”
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