Apple has posted more than a dozen new job openings over the past month, specifically for AR and VR technologies. In the US alone, there are exactly 76 job listings with the keyword VR. Among these, the company includes an ad for a Computational Display Engineering Manager to develop advanced display technologies to be used with future Apple products.

If you are interested in the topic, I think you might have come across news on tech sites that Apple is working on a virtual reality headset for the years 2021/22. In fact, just a few days ago, the news that Apple is interested in NextVR , a startup focused on live virtual reality broadcasts, took the internet by storm.

After 2018, the fact that selling hardware was not as profitable as before led companies to sell subscription-model services. In this context, it was unthinkable for the company, which started offering services like Arcade, Apple TV, and Apple News, to fall behind technological change. I think that existing technologies will shed their skin with the development of 5G, and it is time to talk about new things in the probable new era.

Computational displays typically refer to display technologies that are more dynamic and responsive to viewers, enhancing perception through the use of real-time processes. For example, the display or the screen itself making changes in real-time relative to the perceiver can be considered computational displays. Such computational display techniques are required to achieve the ultimate goal of any virtual reality or augmented reality headset to match both the sharpness and field of view of the human eye.

It seems certain that Apple, one of the rare companies that manage to keep errors at a minimum regarding user experience, will bring a breath of fresh air to the AR/VR industry. Although there is still a long time ahead of us, the COVID-19 or, in other words, the Corona virus disaster we are experiencing these days shows that technology can be rapidly adapted to our lives and develop in business processes.