Apple acquires Metaio, German firm specializing in augmented reality techniques

And names of companies acquired by Apple continue to emerge. The youngest of them Metaio, from Germany.

Metaio website

As the home page of her website highlights, Metaio was specialized in augmented reality techniques (augmented reality) and “computational vision”. And it was not small: it had more than 1,000 customers and 150,000 users spread over 30 countries, many of them now surprised by the "novelty".

Metaio's YouTube channel, which for now remains on the air, gives a good idea of ​​what she was doing.

The most curious thing about this acquisition is that it comes up a day after rumors arose about Apple adding an augmented reality feature to iOS 9 Maps. Whether the two are linked or not, time will tell

Apple confirmed the acquisition by TechCrunch, as always without giving details such as the value of the agreement.