Augmented Reality

3rd April 2024 at 11:47pm

Stephen's Augmented Reality Picks

Type	2020 Summer Rickies	Score
Stephen	Regular	"Apple shares a video touting the benefits of the time-of-flight sensor found in the 2020 iPad Pros for AR"	1
	He was talking about LIDAR, that's accepted. And Myke tracks down the video as well.
Type	2020 October Rickies	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"An AR demo is shown"	1
Type	2021 Annual Rickies	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"Apple ships an AR, VR, and/or MR dedicated device"	0
Type	2021 April Rickies	Score
Stephen	Risky	"At this event, we see some sort of AR-focused hardware"	-1
Type	2022 Annual Rickies	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"Apple announces a developer kit for its headset"	0
Type	2022 WWDC Rickies	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"AR-specific features are added to Swift or SwiftUI"	1
	Nothing in the keynote, but ARKit 6 is adding RoomPlan, a new Swift API for scanning a room with a camera and LiDAR scanner.
Type	2023 WWDC Rickies	Score
Stephen	Regular	"The phrase "one more thing" will be used before the headset is announced"	1
Stephen	Risky	"The announced price of the headset will be less than $2,500"	-1
Stephen	Flexie	"Jeff Williams has a major role in introducing the headset"	0
	Was originally Kevin Lynch until Myke, ever the sportsman, pointed out that Lynch is supposedly on the car project, not the headset.

Type	2017 Annual Predictions	Score
Myke	Regular	"Some element of an AR focused device from Apple"	1
	The iPhone X and ARKit is deemed to fulfill this
Type	2020 September Rickies	Score
Myke	Risky	"A non-Pro iPad gets a LIDAR sensor"	-1
Type	2021 WWDC Rickies	Score
Myke	Regular	"No preview of AR/VR/MR-focused hardware"	1
Type	2022 Annual Rickies	Score
Myke	Flexie	"A headset will not be unveiled at WWDC"	1
Type	2022 WWDC Rickies	Score
Myke	Regular	"No Apple-made headset is seen"	1
	Was originally "AR/VR/MR hardware" and "introduced", but the others wanted some clarifications.
Type	2023 Annual Rickies	Score
Myke	Risky	"Apple shows off their headset in March, they announce developer tools at WWDC, then show it off again at an event in September. It ships to customers in October"	-1
Myke	Flexie	"Apple's headset has widgets that look similar to iOS"	0
Type	2023 WWDC Rickies	Score
Myke	Regular	"The headset is unveiled"	1
	Indeed, this pick has been made a few times, but the only one Myke is ineligible to pick is his much more detailed and already incorrect annual pick. Federico makes some implausible claims about his involvement in the development of the headset.
Myke	Flexie	"The iPadOS cursor appears to be repurposed for using iPad apps in VR"	1
	It wasn't obvious from the keynote, but later session information showed that when connected to a trackpad, visionOS indeed uses an almost exact clone of the iPad cursor.
Myke	Flexie	"We do not know what the price of the headset will be"	0
Myke	Flexie	"The headset portion of the keynote lasts over an hour"	0

Type	2020 October Rickies	Score
Federico	Risky	"One of the new iPhones with LIDAR has a new portrait feature thanks to new sensors"	2
Federico	Flexie	"Apple launches an AR navigation mode for Apple Maps"	0
	A year too early, this was a feature in iOS 15.
Type	2022 March Rickies	Score
Federico	Flexie	"No preview of an AR headset"	1
Type	2023 October Rickies	Score
Federico	Flexie	"Vision Pro is mentioned at some point during the video"	0