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Apple Tags and AR

New leak reveals how Apple Tags could work

New leaked details have emerged regarding Apple's rumored built-in AR app 'Gobi' plus location-based alerts for finding lost objects.
Lory Gil
18 May 2020

iPhone XS Find My appSource: iMore

What you need to know

  • Supposed new information has leaked regarding Apple's rumored AR app and Find My features.
  • The information was found "buried in iOS 14".
  • The leaks show new QR Code formats and audio alerts for location.

According to a new leak from Josh Constine of the Moving Product newsletter, the rumored AR app built by Apple (code name "Gobi") will include branded and brandable QR codes that will allow users to do such things as launch a direct link to the Mac Pro in the Apple Store app, jump to Star Wars: Rogue One in the iTunes Store, and unlock the signup form for getting a Starbuck's loyalty card.

Scoop: Leaked iOS 14 files reveal Apple's plans for camera-triggered commerce with its own branded QR codes https://t.co/kMwijVne2I pic.twitter.com/5vchUEBvTk

— Josh Constine 📶🔥 (@JoshConstine) May 18, 2020

Additionally, information buried in iOS 14's Find My app shows audio files and haptic feedback for receiving special cues to help locate a missing devices, like "nearby" or "off course."

For Gobi, the branded QR codes include a comparison shopping feature for Apple Stores that shows a 3D rendering of an Apple Watch that users can spin, showing how an AR experience could work in the store. For example, a customer could scan an in-store QR code for an Apple Watch and bring up different Apple Watch colors, bands, and models to compare what is offered without having to hold something in their hands.

There are also new designs for QR codes that use colored cones instead of the typical dot matrix. There is also reference to a promotional discount and a 3D render of a pagoda with the code name "Sbux_Preview (presumably to "spruce up the decoration of the cafes while giving visitors something to play with").

The really interesting stuff comes in the video and audio files found in the Find My app in iOS 14, which include a spinning 3D rainbow Apple Logo, plus a list of alerts that include haptic feedback. The alerts let you know when you're getting "hotter" or "colder" to a device.

You'll hear encouraging sounds when you face the right direction so the lost gadget is 'Ahead' of you, when you're 'Nearby', or come within 'Arms Reach', while discouraging tones hint that you're headed off course.

This type of minutia location tracking could be used with any device that features a U1 ultra wideband chip. It could be exactly what Apple is planning for the rumored Apple Tags (though it's just as possible this is simply a new feature in the Find My app of iOS 14, that allows iPhones to "talk" to each other).

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