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Apple-backed ‘Matter’ smart home standard delayed until 2022

Friday, August 13, 2021 4:40 pm6 Comments

The final specification of Matter, the smart home interoperability protocol backed by Apple, Google, and Amazon, has been delayed. Matter…

Apple, Google, Amazon smart home alliance is called Matter

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 2:04 pmTuesday, May 11, 20212 Comments

Matter, an industry alliance sponsored by Apple, Google, Amazon and other tech companies will begin certifying smart home devices…

How IKEA’s smart blinds work with HomeKit on iOS and through Siri

Monday, January 6, 2020 3:31 pmWednesday, January 8, 20203 Comments

After months of waiting, Ikea has now started rolling out HomeKit support for its FYRTUR and KADRILJ smart blinds…

Apple open-sources portions of their HomeKit Accessory Development Kit

Thursday, December 19, 2019 3:02 pmThursday, December 19, 20193 Comments

Apple is open-sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK) in a move to accelerate development…

Apple, Google and Amazon decide to ‘play nice’ over smart home tech

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 3:46 pmWednesday, December 18, 20195 Comments

The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart…

Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance join forces to develop open standard for smart home devices

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:46 am3 Comments

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard…

This is the start of a whole new era for Apple augmented reality

Friday, September 6, 2019 12:07 pm3 Comments

Thanks to a trio of new augmented reality tools for iOS 13, and the very real possibility of an Apple AR headset on the horizon…

New IKEA grater ad ‘Designed for Apples’ obliquely references new Mac Pro

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:03 pmWednesday, June 12, 201912 Comments

When your brand is as big as Apple, people are going to make fun of you no matter what you do…

Ikea’s Tradfri line is a good, low-priced entry point into Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 9:51 am3 Comments

Ikea could be how Apple finally gets its system into the mainstream…

Apple hardware engineer hiring jumped 80% this fall; What’s Cupertino building?

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4:33 pmWednesday, February 7, 201825 Comments

We discovered what appears to be an absolutely massive jump in hardware engineering positions at Apple’s headquarters…

Amazon Alexa could make these smart glasses way better than Google Glass

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:25 pmWednesday, January 10, 201815 Comments

Amazon’s Alexa software has already made its way into just about every Internet-connected device…

Vuzix to debut first Amazon Alexa-enabled smart glasses at CES

Friday, January 5, 2018 5:30 pmFriday, January 5, 201816 Comments

The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown…

3 small announcements that hint at Apple’s big future

Friday, September 15, 2017 12:02 pmFriday, September 15, 20173 Comments

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is generally the company’s blueprint…

Apple’s AR smartglasses – understanding the issues

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 4:50 pmTuesday, August 29, 20174 Comments

By now, most Apple investors are well aware of the company’s interest in Augmented Reality…

Bernstein: Apple’s ‘smartglasses’ opportunity ‘could be enormous’

Friday, August 25, 2017 10:27 amTuesday, August 29, 20176 Comments

Smartglasses could potentially generate tens of billions of dollars in annual hardware sales for Apple…

Ikea’s smart home dares to make sense

Monday, August 14, 2017 3:02 pmMonday, August 14, 201711 Comments

The ‘smart home’ has not yet distinguished itself. Sure, you might dim your lights…

Smart retailers are rushing to embrace Apple’s ARKit

Friday, August 11, 2017 7:11 pm9 Comments

Apple’s ARKit is something else…

Apple’s ARKit proves the future of augmented reality will be on your iPhone

Friday, August 11, 2017 4:31 pmFriday, August 11, 20173 Comments

Apple’s ARKit is the biggest thing that’s happened to the Augmented Reality industry since it began…

Augmented reality on the iPhone isn’t Apple’s endgame, it’s a means to an end

Friday, August 11, 2017 12:01 pmFriday, August 11, 20172 Comments

You may have already heard the name of iOS 11’s biggest new feature, ARKit…

Apple working on several prototypes of AR glasses

Friday, August 4, 2017 6:05 pm14 Comments

Apple’s annual R&D investment has increased tenfold since 2007…

Apple’s next big move: Augmented reality

Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:29 amFriday, August 4, 20179 Comments

This is one of those huge things that we’ll look back at and marvel on the start of it…

Apple’s rumored new glasses will be an even bigger deal than the iPhone

Friday, July 28, 2017 1:34 pm13 Comments

Apple is reportedly working on a pair of digital glasses…

Apple smart glasses are inevitable

Friday, July 28, 2017 10:25 amFriday, July 28, 20177 Comments

All of the pieces are coming together for Apple to sell glasses…

Gene Munster: Apple Glasses will soon outshine the iPhone

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 4:45 pm28 Comments

One analyst sees a bright future ahead for Apple Glasses…

Apple’s ARKit on iOS 11 beta is already destroying Google’s Tango

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:55 am9 Comments

There are already quite a few very impressive ARKit demos available for iOS 11…

Augmented Reality: Apple’s revolutionary offering leaves Google’s Android woefully behind

Monday, June 26, 2017 5:38 pmMonday, June 26, 201720 Comments

Augmented reality is one area in which Apple intends to take an unprecedented lead…

Apple’s AR is much closer to reality than Google’s

Monday, June 26, 2017 10:55 amMonday, June 26, 201714 Comments

Next up on Apple’s agenda is augmented reality, the act of superimposing digital data and visuals atop…

IKEA’s forthcoming Augmented Reality furniture app powered by Apple’s ARKit

Monday, June 19, 2017 12:55 pmMonday, June 19, 20179 Comments

IKEA’s partnership with Apple and ARKit on an all-new augmented reality app that will help customers…

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