Apple revealed its long-awaited VR headset last year without confirming a specific launch date, saying only that the VIsion Pro would be available in 2024. The wait is almost over—Apple says all of its US retail locations will have the Vision Pro for sale on Feb. 2. If you’re already …
Read More »Future iPhones Could Take 3D Photos
Now that Apple is trying to make spatial computing a thing with its Vision Pro headset, it’s not far-fetched to think the company might try and shoehorn that feature into future iPhones and iPads. When the headset launches next year, you will have to be wearing the headset to take …
Read More »Apple’s Vision Pro AR Headset
It was a classic “one more thing” at Apple’s WWDC event today. After unveiling new Macs and software updates, Apple finally announced its long-rumored augmented reality headset known as Vision Pro. In typical Apple fashion, the announcement failed to provide many technical details, but the company demoed plenty of games, …
Read More »$120 Million Into Ordermark
“We’re building a decentralized ghost kitchen,” is a sentence that could launch a thousand investor calls, and Alex Canter, the chief executive officer behind Ordermark, knows it. The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in …
Read More »Deep Red Light Staring
Study: Staring at Deep Red Light Can Improve Naturally Declining Vision Looking at 670-nm red light for three minutes a day can significantly improve cone color contrast sensitivity (the ability to detect colors) and rod sensitivity (the ability to see in low light), according to a new study published in …
Read More »Loss Less Accurately
People with Severe Vision Loss Less Accurately Judge Distance of Nearby Sounds, Study Shows A new study shows that greater severity of vision loss is associated with increased auditory judgments of distance and room size; on average, participants with severe visual losses perceived sounds to be twice as far away, …
Read More »Dove Ambassador And Speaker Molly Burke On Coping With Vision Loss And Finding Hope
As a 23-year-old motivational speaker, Oakville, Ontario native Molly Burke is clearly an accomplished young woman. When you consider the face that Burke is legally blind and first began losing her vision at the age of four, her achievements seem even more inspirational and heightened. The young Canadian activist and …
Read More »Ability to Distinguish Objects in Peripheral Vision Varies between Individuals, Study Finds
New research led by University College London, UK, shows that on average we are worse at spotting objects in crowded environments when they are above or below eye level, although the extent to which this happens varies between individuals: some people are better at spotting things above their center of …
Read More »Honey Bees Have Better Vision Than Previously Thought
A new study by researchers at the University of Adelaide and Lund University that appears online today in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that honey bees have much better vision than previously thought. A western honey bee (Apis mellifera) in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan. Image credit: Emran Kassim / CC BY …
Read More »Stem Cell-Based Transplantation Approach Improves Vision in End-Stage Retinal-Degeneration Mice
In the Jan. 10 issue of the journal Stem Cell Reports, Dr. Michiko Mandai and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan report that transplantation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived retinal tissue improved vision in a mouse model of end-stage retinal degeneration. 3D observation of contact …
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