At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the company debuted an entire new run of operating systems as it always does, but still managed to 'Sherlock' a few good things along the way, too. Here are some notable titles.Sherlocked apps at WWDC23The Apple community has been pointing out all sorts of features Apple has "Sherlocked" over the years, dating as far back as the release of Mac OS 8. Nowadays it's a means to point out the features or apps Apple builds that directly compete with a third-party alternative. Read more...

Image: Epic Games Today, Epic is releasing a new tool designed to capture an actor’s facial performance using a device as simple as an iPhone and apply it to a hyperrealistic “MetaHuman” in the Unreal Engine in “minutes.” The feature, dubbed MetaHuman Animator, was detailed at the Game Developers Conference in March but is now available for developers to try out for themselves. Epic has also released a new video today produced by one of its internal teams to show what the tool is capable of. While Epic’s short film shows off some impressively subtle facial animation, the big benefit the company is emphasizing is the speed with which MetaHuman Animator produces results. “The animation is produced locally using GPU…

At the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple talked up the richness of its display technology in its upcoming AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, but it turns out Sony has been hyping the technology since 2022.Apple Vision Pro lensesApple is putting incredibly high-resolution displays in the headset, one 4K display for each eye. The company says that the displays pack 23 million pixels into a pair of displays, thanks to micro-OLED technology. Read more...

At the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple talked up the richness of its display technology in its upcoming AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, but it turns out Sony has been hyping the technology since 2022.Apple Vision Pro lensesApple is putting incredibly high-resolution displays in the headset, one 4K display for each eye. The company says that the displays pack 23 million pixels into a pair of displays, thanks to micro-OLED technology. Read more...

At the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple talked up the richness of its display technology in its upcoming AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, but it turns out Sony has been hyping the technology since 2022.Apple Vision Pro lensesApple is putting incredibly high-resolution displays in the headset, one 4K display for each eye. The company says that the displays pack 23 million pixels into a pair of displays, thanks to micro-OLED technology. Read more...

At the 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple talked up the richness of its display technology in its upcoming AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro, but it turns out Sony has been hyping the technology since 2022.Apple Vision Pro lensesApple is putting incredibly high-resolution displays in the headset, one 4K display for each eye. The company says that the displays pack 23 million pixels into a pair of displays, thanks to micro-OLED technology. Read more...