Glasses or no glasses, this year’s WWDC is all about AR
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6008V)
Apple has been demoing AR for years but has never really shown us how it's supposed to work. | Image: Apple
Apple's software is very good, generally speaking. Even as the company has spread its focus among more platforms than ever - macOS and iOS and iPadOS and tvOS and watchOS and whatever software Apple's building for its maybe-possibly-coming-someday car and its almost-certainly-coming-soon AR / VR headset - those platforms have continued to be excellent. It's been a while since we got an Apple Maps-style fiasco; the biggest mistakes Apple makes now are much more on the level of putting the Safari URL bar on the wrong part of the screen.
What all that success and maturity breeds, though, is a sense that Apple's software is... finished - or at least very close. Over the last couple of years, the company's software announcements at WWDC have...