iPhone 8 will have many new features, but one of the most important of them has no less than 1000 engineers behind it at the moment. According to some information that appeared during this day, no less than 1000 engineers within the Apple company are developing new functions for augmented reality that will be available in iPhone 8 this year.
All these engineers would work in Israel for the Apple company, and the new functions for the iPhone 8 could be available for Apple Maps, but also for other native applications. The new front camera of the iPhone 8 will allow you to create 3D selfies that can be transformed into avatars for games that have implemented functions for augmented reality, but not only that.
Those who obtained this information regarding the new iPhone 8 claim that Apple would be much more interested in the development of augmented reality than virtual reality. This choice for the iPhone 8 is based on the fact that augmented reality connects people, while virtual reality isolates them, something that Apple does not want.
iPhone 8 – 1000 engineers develop augmented reality functions
To offer functions based on augmented reality, the Apple company only needs to release special software for the iPhone 8, not other dedicated products. The components chosen for iPhone 8 will facilitate the use of the new technology for augmented reality, more precisely the new 3D frontal camera would offer us a variety of functions.
Apple relies a lot on this 3D camera in the iPhone 8, it will also do facial recognition, apart from offering functions for augmented reality. It will be a central element for iPhone 8 and all the new software that will be implemented in iOS 11, so we are talking about a big step forward made by Apple with this upgrade.
"According to some industry sources, the company may have over 1,000 engineers working on a project in Israel that could be related to AR. We expect Apple could implement new AR products as early as in the next iPhone. Apple appears more interested in AR rather than virtual reality (VR), because the former connects people whereas the latter is often an isolating experience involving a headset that renders the user blind to the real world. AR, by contrast, takes the existing environment and adds a new layer of information to it."
Although nothing is officially known, the iPhone 8 is to be launched by the Apple company during this year, either in the summer or in the fall, like the previous models. iPhone 8 will bring a lot of changes, and they will increase the selling price of the terminal to at least 1000 dollars starting this year.
