Apple’s first online store in India is opening next month

[ad_1] Apple is getting ready to finally open its first online-only retail store in India, a 1.35 billion people opportunity. In addition, it’s already planning a second physical outlet in the country. Saritha Rai, writing for Bloomberg today: The online store will be ready for operations just ahead of the festive Dussehra-Diwali spending season, according …

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Let’s Talk iOS 358: The game is changing

[ad_1] Cody and Sebastien discuss the recent leaks about upcoming new Apple products, the future of Beats, and of course, the ongoing Fortnite saga.  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts – Spotify – Overcast – RSS HYPER: Hyper is giving our listeners an exclusive 20% discount. Use code LETSTALK20 at checkout on Hypershop.com. Serial leaker: cheaper Apple …

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Apple buys AR/VR technology platform Spaces, a former project of DreamWorks Animation

[ad_1] Apple has apparently acquired Spaces, an augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology startup that was spun out from DreamWorks Animation in 2016, for an undisclosed sum. Apple’s confirmed the acquisition with its boilerplate statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.” According …

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Amazon’s shopping app brings enhanced AR tools

[ad_1] Augmented reality has a few quite legitimate use cases, like home furnishing. Ikea uses augmented reality in its Place app to a great success, and now Amazon’s expanded augmented reality capabilities of its shopping app with a new Room Decorator feature making it easy to create more than a hundred different configurations consisting of …

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