Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Yeah I have no idea what it is either
I need fewer screens in my life, not more

ok

seems like it'd be great for domain-specific stuff

really selling it hard as a general purpose device

it looks way better than any of the other headsets

god damn bob iger?

tech nerds where everyone in the office is wearing them.

Porn.

They'll sell if they actually look/work as well as they say. Obv curious about eye control, like maybe I'd rather just point at stuff? Wonder how weird that will be. Of course I never thought touch typing on a screen would take off.

think they just admitted to extensive phrenology

I was joking with a friend that there was a cable coming out of it for the 20lb battery pack

and...

apple engineering is so nuts

I assumed it was going to fake your appearance in video chat so you wouldn't see the goggles, and yup

$3,499!

I was thinking it would be like $500 and that would feel like a lot.

Apple's new Vision Pro will deliver new immersive experiences to users

for example, in the photos below, these two women are experiencing for the very first time what its like to be a huge ass loser pic.twitter.com/eVlFztsPTc

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 5, 2023

I was expecting $5k tbh

I mean, PSVR 2 has 1080 resolution, a fraction of the cameras, and requires a whole-ass PS5 to work at all and it's $550

This sucker has the hardware equivalent of several iPhones in it. $3500 ain't no bargain, but

Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs? My guess is that they left it vague because that's completely based on whether hardware vendors will collaborate on drivers.

Ars Technica's coverage was claiming that adding ARM driver support would be very arduous and I was thinking "hmm, citation needed"

Not that the driver model is similar, but NVidia has ARM Linux drivers, and they already have a long in the tooth macOS driver

https://i.imgur.com/eF4JLUZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PKNqsIw.jpg

I know that they're definitely still working on the deepfake-style video conferencing appearance but I reeeeally want to see more footage from whatever stage the prototype is at

Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs?

“Nothing to announce today.”

lol

My friend who tracks pc hardware more assiduously than me was explaining that 24GB ram modules are becoming a thing as the new budget compromise and guess what? The new Macbook Air maxes out at 24GB of memory!

They're still trying to sell the base model with a criminal 8GB

I was a bit sceptical of 8GB, but I do some quite heavy lifting as a FE developer with just 8GB on the 13" Air. It isn’t meant to be a “Pro” machine anyway but it smokes the old i9 2019 16" Pro machine I had with 16GB - and without running any fans.

fair. I end up having to fire up some containerized stuff on my own machine from time to time and it’s hard to work around hard memory limits in that case

not as if I don’t do a large portion of my computing on a phone and tablet with less

companies want people to wear computer glasses so bad but people dont want to, lol

Waiting for Vision 3GS

soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?

that's kind of what every new apple product gets badged as tbh

soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?

― Nhex, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:10 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s shocking. They have a very good professional software team (Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Motion) and, as far as I know, they didn’t announce anything. Someone somewhere suggested a mixed-reality AutoCAD and Revit competitor. That would’ve been sick.

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

The Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

The Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games

― mh, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:30 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah. That makes so much sense.

They mentioned Lightroom and the ability to selectively edit a 10’ photograph does sound like fun

I mean it’s cheaper than what they were selling in the 80s and 90s. They’ve only recently become a mass market brand.

Still, lol at face computers.

early 2024 reads as late March at earliest, to me

all of the apps that run on the device (as opposed to using it as a remote display for your laptop) looked like the iPad versions hovering in the air, and obviously they were all mockups because what else would they be, someone attached a camera to one of the devices eye holes and shot video through it?

I'm admittedly and embarrassingly kind of intrigued by the idea of having all my work apps around me in the air and manipulating them by waving my arms around like I'm conducting an invisible orchestra while the virtual heads of my coworkers float in front of me. I can't imagine wearing something like that outside - it seems more like the answer to an Occulus (which you use at home but you can't see your physical environment) than the answer to google glass (which was ostensibly designed to wear outside).

Like most tech, I will wait a few generations before even considering a purchase, and certainly not for $3500.

In line with that, actually seriously considering an apple watch for the first time, as a combination of wanting a running watch, wanting the time on my wrist, and wanting fewer reasons to pull out my phone.

As a self contained thing, I'm assuming this won't be compatible with any existing VR apps and games, and you'd be paying $3500 to use some nifty iPhone apps. I'm not into VR but if I sprung for this and couldn't even try out Half Life Alyx that'd be super lame. otoh fragmenting this space might hurry up its demise already.

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

God I hope so. They had a DJ app thing and the latency on manipulating the crossfader was awful.

xxp i got apple watch pilled a couple of years ago. they are good!

i will never wear the apple watch or the apple glasses im against computers

The watch pro ultra max plus looks cool but is a little steep price wise

Lol Is that the real name?

Yes

Letter to the editor in the Washington Post

The June 6 news article "With Vision Pro, Apple makes its case for a computer on your face" noted a feature of Apple's new Vision Pro headset: When you are wearing the Vision Pro, you can see others in the room with you and thus you don't feel left out. But is the one wearing the Vision Pro the one who is really left out? I remember the moment when my young daughter got hooked on her first experience of a video (Disney's "Cinderella"). I not only felt "left out," but I also felt that she was no longer together "with me" in the same room.

My problem with the Vision Pro and this direction technology is taking is not only that it leaves others out but, even more important, that it generates ever more "experiences," be they "immersive" or not, that we can't share with others (our friends, our partners, our children, our co-workers, et al.). Aren't our "deepest experiences," the ones we live by, not experiences that leave others out but instead experiences shared with others? Even René Descartes wrote his deepest experience - "I think, therefore I am" (cogito, ergo sum) - for a reader.

I wish Apple CEO Tim Cook and the media would think more critically about how this new technology of "immersive experience" will intensify the primacy of the individual ("me first/me only" and its consequent "loneliness") by augmenting its introversion (and asociality in the sense of its "failure to feel responsibility" for the suffering or well-being of others). Isn't the challenge today to break down solipsism (self-relation) and increase/create solidarity with others (relationality) - others in the world with us?

Kathleen Wright, Philadelphia

Baratunde Thurston:

Let's also talk about actual eyesight, the non-patented kind. On the same day Apple announced its headset, it announced a new feature built into its other mobile devices. According to its press release celebrating the company's attempt to tackle myopia (aka nearsightedness), "Screen Distance uses the same TrueDepth camera that powers Face ID on iPhone and iPad to encourage users to move their device farther away after holding it closer than 12 inches for an extended period of time." The release goes on to encourage us to spend time outdoors and notes that the company's new feature can monitor your access to daylight and nudge you to get more. Should I tell the "Screen Distance" team about the Vision Pro, or do you want to do it?

The company's new headset sits centimeters away from your face, blasting your eyes with artificial light, shooting infrared beams to track eye movement, using cameras to capture and recreate your visage, all of which you strap to the back of your head. To quote my wife, "They should need F.D.A. approval for this. No one has tested what 23 million stamp-size pixels smashed against your eyes does to your brain." I could not, in fact, find any information related to the anticipated health impact or approval of this device for consumer use. I'll keep looking.

While the Vision Pro is a massive technological leap, it's also likely to be a massive leap in the wrong direction when it comes to our health. When something so revolutionary rolls out, I want to be told about its incredible advantages, of course, but also about the incredible amount of study and care the company has taken, the testing conducted, the regulatory approvals achieved. Sadly, I suspect the truth is that we are the test subjects. I've looked for information about this on the Vision Pro site and can't find it. But that's how the under-regulated tech industry rolls, from social media to generative A.I., and now to this face computer.

Prime Day had a pretty great deal on the watch so I finally got myself one - Series 8 with cellular. I mistakenly ordered the smaller band size which was literally a notch too small for my wrist and didn't feel like returning the whole thing or spending $50 on a new band, so I just cut a new hole in it.

I like it so far - nice to have the texts and the child screentime requests show up on my wrist so I don't have to pull out my phone every time, nice to have the time visible, and I'm looking forward to using it on runs so I don't have to carry my phone in one hand like a putz in order to see my pace/mileage/time.

My nephew is too young for a phone or tablet but he has a Watch and now I want one so we can do the silly Watch-to-Watch messages.

i still can't get into a comfortable zone with bookmarks and tab groups

anybody got a system they like?

For organizing tabs?

Has anyone tried Arc yet? I believe tab management is its biggest selling point

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/25/23802843/arc-browser-mac-ios-waitlist-availability

I am too tied in to Chrome at work to really consider it. My tabs management policy is just to have three pinned, open about 100 a day and then close them all with a keyboard shortcut every hour or so.

I don't use tab groups because whenever I have enough themeatically-related tabs to put into a group, it's more useful to save each as either a .webarchive or a PDF. Especially if it's at a URL that's likely to change or disappear.