{"id":624620,"date":"2023-04-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/apples-vr-headset-is-likely-delayed\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:00:00","slug":"apples-vr-headset-is-likely-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/01\/apples-vr-headset-is-likely-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s VR Headset Is Likely Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s April 1,<\/span> which means there’s no shortage of nearly unbelievable news out there. Here are some recent developments that actually happened. I swear, no foolin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Apple Play Later<\/p>\n

First, Apple has announced that its\u00a0next WWDC event<\/a> is set for June 5. The annual developer conference is a place for nerdy tech types to mingle, but also the setting for some of Apple’s biggest announcements of the year. While it’s never a guarantee exactly what Apple will announce, there’s a healthy rumor mill that gives a pretty good idea of what’s to come. If this WWDC is anything like the\u00a0last dozen or so<\/a>, expect to hear primarily about new software updates to Apple\u2019s mobile and desktop devices.<\/p>\n

Apple sometimes announces a hardware device or two at WWDC. The big rumor that’s been blowing around for years now concerns Apple’s upcoming mixed-reality headset. A steady trickle of leaks have suggested that Apple may announce the augmented reality device at WWDC, but that timetable seems to be getting pushed back. According to technology analyst and Apple soothsayer\u00a0Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a>, the company is likely to push back its reveal of the headset until the third quarter of this year at the earliest. A story in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> lays out the\u00a0internal tensions at Apple<\/a> about the upcoming headset, and how some employees at the company worry that Apple is making too risky of a bet with a very expensive headset that makes use of technologies (virtual and augmented reality) that haven’t yet proven their worth.<\/p>\n

The recent reports also tell us a bit about what to expect: An external battery that\u2019s worn elsewhere on your body, Siri integration, and a \u201creality\u201d knob that fades your real-world surroundings into and out of the scene in the goggles.<\/p>\n

Finally, Apple did actually release something this week. The company\u2019s buy now, pay later service launched after a months-long wait. Called\u00a0Apple Pay Later<\/a>, it lets users defer payments for purchases into smaller installments spread out across a few months. It\u2019s something Apple has had in the works for\u00a0over a year<\/a>, and part of a\u00a0growing industry<\/a> that includes services like Klarna and Affirm.<\/p>\n

OverDrive Peters Out<\/p>\n

OverDrive, a service that lets people access electronic library books on personal devices, is\u00a0shutting down<\/a>. It isn\u2019t dead, exactly, it\u2019s just moving services to the\u00a0Libby app<\/a>, which is made by the same company anyway. While OverDrive itself won\u2019t be working anymore, the company has provided a way to\u00a0smoothly transition<\/a> to Libby.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still a bunch of ways to keep getting\u00a0free library books<\/a> on your\u00a0ereader<\/a>. Also, it\u2019s always worth going to a library in person\u2014they offer\u00a0all kinds of other services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fitbit\u2019s Final Lap<\/p>\n

Google, which owns Fitbit, seems to be slowly chopping off the limbs of the fitness wearable company. In its most recent move, Google has\u00a0removed some social features<\/a> from the Fitbit platform. The Open Groups feature, which lets Fitbit users interact with each other and compare workouts, has been removed. Google is also doing away with some of the gamification features, like removing challenges people have participated in and the trophies they\u2019ve earned. The\u00a0announcement<\/a> came from an admin account on the official Fitbit community forum.<\/p>\n

So it goes with Google services. The company is notorious for\u00a0killing off<\/a> all sorts of apps and devices. Google bought Fitbit in 2021 and last year released its\u00a0own Pixel-branded smartwatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Always-On Amazon<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s Echo and Ring devices are everywhere. If they aren\u2019t inside your home already, they are nearby, sitting in your neighbors\u2019 houses and guarding their doorways. These gadgets all connect to the internet to work, but they also emit signals of their own, providing a slice of your home network\u2019s bandwidth to other Amazon devices around them that could use a bit of extra signal. The result is a quickly expanding network that the company calls\u00a0Amazon Sidewalk<\/a>. It\u2019s also staggeringly large\u2014Amazon says Sidewalk now covers 90 percent of people in the US\u2014and is poised to get larger now that it\u2019s open to developers.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s\u00a0Gadget Lab<\/em><\/a> episode is all about Amazon Sidewalk and how the company managed to stealthily build a massive Wi-Fi network from its products, right under everyone’s noses.<\/p>\n

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\n Boone Ashworth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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