{"id":18332,"date":"2022-01-31T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=18332"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:54:46","slug":"apple-ceo-speaks-on-ar-devices-metaverse-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/apple-ceo-speaks-on-ar-devices-metaverse-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Speaks On AR Devices, Metaverse Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the company sees a lot of potential in the metaverse space and is investing accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this when asked about the company&#8217;s plan on the metaverse. Cook also shared details on the company&#8217;s plans to expand its augmented reality (AR) apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Apple has 14,000 AR apps in its App Store, Cook said the number will rise with further investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple has yet to confirm a report by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg that the company plans to introduce an AR headset in 2022 or 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cook also said separately that Apple&#8217;s research and development efforts are focused on the interaction between hardware, software and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reflection of Apple&#8217;s goal is to see an AR device that could offer room for many ways to make more sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to analyst Neil Shah of Counterpoint Research, AR apps can contribute to Apple&#8217;s revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is a significant upside to Apple&#8217;s services business potentially crossing its iPhone in the next five years,&#8221; Shah said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/apple-teases-metaverse-ar-plans-stock-jumps-2022-01-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company sees a lot of potential in the metaverse space and is investing accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[202,276],"class_list":["post-18332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-tech","category-social-networks","tag-apple","tag-meta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18332\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}