Apple stock hits record as new iPads expected, analyst calls iPhone 8 'paradigm shift' in AR
Another reason that the stock is booming may be the appearance of renowned Apple analyst Gene Munster on the business CNBC channel, and his claims that the company will do something remarkable with AR, laying the grounds for a "paradigm shift" as soon as this year's iPhone 8 edition. Bloomberg already reported recently that Apple has hundreds of people working on augmented reality, including in the camera department, and will introduce AR first in its iPhone franchise:
One of the features Apple is exploring is the ability to take a picture and then change the depth of the photograph or the depth of specific objects in the picture later; another would isolate an object in the image, such as a person’s head, and allow it to be tilted 180 degrees. A different feature in development would use augmented reality to place virtual effects and objects on a person, much the way Snapchat works.
In any case, not much is left until the Apple store is back up again to gauge what the eventual new iPads will look like, while for the iPhone 8's eventual AR "paradigm shift" as per Mr Munster, we'll have to wait a few more months.
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