Oliver ReichensteinMaking voicemail cool again. #wwdc
Making voice messages cool for old people. #wwdc
Namedrop is yet another nice UX touch. #wwdc
Nice updates for autocorrect, too. I have to try it to fully believe that it works though. #wwdc
Widgets for macOS, the Return. #WWDC
Adaptive Audio. Can I force our kids via FaceTime to use that at home? 😆
In iA lingo, video conferencing updates are "capulavo" (masterwork) #wwdc
CarPlay joining session: 👌
Not an Apple Watch person, but this is was a great video. #wwdc
"Mental health is as important as physical health." True. I'm skeptical if more self analysis via screen time and tracking is the way to improve it. Happy to be proven wrong. #wwdc
Apple Vision Pro looks cool as an object. Put on people still look prisoned. Seeing through is a clear improvement to the blinding goggles. Visual design in UI work is nice. #wwdc
They call it "spacial computing" #wwdc
"You can see them and they can see you." It's a very cool looking object that makes you look very uncool.
So many good looking people in the coolest spaces. And behind the goggles they all look prisoned, fooled, trapped, stupid. #wwdc
Dad looking at his kids with the goggles looks like a complete idiot. #wwdc
It's already bad enough to look at your kids through your phone. This is just... nah. Gaming, maybe, but this is bullshit. And in spite of the high quality production and the futuristic product design, it looks old fashioned. #wwdc
Did they say "IT'S A PRISON OF ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES" WTF?! #wwdc
Or did they say "a prism of endless possibilities" that's close to sabotage #wwdc
And it's not "spacial computing" it's "facial computing" Edit: No, it's "spatial computing" I misheard or someone misspoke during the presentation. #wwdc
"You brain is totally convinced that the sound is coming from the space around you" #wwdc
"Microsoft apps make full useage of the possibilities and sharp text rendering" 🤔 #wwdc
It might be very successful. It'll be great for porn. #wwdc And it will be better than this:
It will be great on the plane for sure. #wwdc
I understand that they couldn't show the use case for erotic movies. 😂 But why didn't they show a single game? #wwdc
Oh, $3,500.- that's a lot of money for on flight entertainment, retro games or for getting caught in an embarrassing situation.
I'll rewatch the Apple Vision intro tomorrow. Giving us the "One more thing" treatment was a bit too cheesy. First product shot was glorious. Then it dove down into black mirror and self parody territory. Das filming kids scene was a raw mistake. They caught up a bit explaining the tech, which they always do really well. Disney movie had a serious copy writing flaw saying "a prism of endless possibilities" is an involuntary but serious mistake when introducing such a device. #wwdc
I wasn't fully focused, between watching, posting, texts coming in, DMs and discussing in iA internal chat, but I think they completely ghosted "AI". That's remarkable. They mentioned "Machine Learning" once, during the iOS17 presentation (predictive text and autocorrect), but apart from that: Zero. Siri reacts to "Siri" instead of "Hey, Siri" but stays a major embarrassment. Traders are not optimistic, either.
Roger Wong@reichenstein Craig mentioned “transformer” a few times. Once specifically having to do with updating how autocorrect works.
Waly@reichenstein traders are never optimistic about Apple post-event, like, ever. I wouldn’t take this as any significant sign.
@waly I don't care much about traders. When it comes to IT, I trust my instincts way more than some gamblers who don't know much about technology or design to begin with.
Dane Deasy@reichenstein Then why did you share what the stock is doing?
@danedeasy Because these people, no matter how random in their judgement, have more influence on everything than us.
Aleksandar Vacić@reichenstein the presentation was chock full of various applications of “AI” but I don’t see Apple ever calling it like that. “Powered by neural network” is the highest step of anthropomorphism they would go.
Harri Granholm@reichenstein I was specifically paying attention to this. Apple carefully avoided the word “AI”, but “machine learning” and “neural” were mentioned many times. In every single product category, I believe. Interesting to see if they stick to their guns with the on-device ML approach. (It’ll take a long time before you can run something like an LLM on a phone.)
@harri I noticed as well.
Mark Boulton@reichenstein were they thrilled, though?
@markboulton I indeed counted one "thrilled" (my new hobby) and I wondered "who wrote this?" But then I thought "Nah they're too paranoid to feed ChatGPT with WWDC material."
Frederik@reichenstein but a lot easier then bringing your 77inch TV into a plane 🤷♂️
heracl.es@reichenstein Never was there an Apple product with a narrower audience to target. It feels destined for young C-level executives, gamers without a console and no stream followers, and singles watching films.
Kris Sowersby@reichenstein because there are no good, appropriate games on the Apple ecosystem?
@klim An because they don't run that well on the device?
@reichenstein @klim only pinching and raising hands is not enough for gaming..
@typemytype @reichenstein I think the intro vids showed it working with DualSense PS5 controllers. Lots of mac hardware already works with third party controllers… but yeah. I'm not sure how popular VR gaming is at the moment…
@typemytype @reichenstein Tetris? Expensive, AR Tetris.
@reichenstein Obviously the only real question is: can it run Crysis 😂
Al Abut@reichenstein they did — the basketball one.
@alabut Haha. Right. They showed a basketball "game." A live visualization of a NBA-match.
@reichenstein could be! Or it really could be the NBA 2K23 or whatever they said it was, I’m not enough of a gamer to tell how accurate it was.
Basically your money’s on them faking the interactions like they reportedly did for the iPhone launch? I can see that as a way to keep the NDA count low — do renderings in advance of several options and then show whichever one they get clearance for.
@alabut Ah they said that it's a playable game, not a game as in watching a game. Must have missed that while my phone was buzzing with "WTF" messages from friends and colleagues. 😀
@reichenstein yeah there was a lot to take in today. I remember that the scene was a lady in a fuzzy sweater with an xbox style controller and it stood out because she wasn’t screaming like a lunatic while dunking on someone and kicking over red plastic cups. You know, like the frat boys that usually play the game 😂
@alabut Not knowledgeable about contemporary AR/VR Google's. Last time we evaluated them for creating a VR writing app text rendering was so bad that the "sharp text rendering" they promised for MS apps seemed a decade away. I don't think they can fake that and then not follow up. Usually when Apple fakes, they follow up on the promise.
@reichenstein oof, yeah that sounds rough. I’m not an expert either but the few times I dabbled turned me off the space entirely and I figured I’d wait until this inevitable day. The Google glass never actually worked for me and all VR headsets made me literally physically sick with vertigo, something that apparently happens with enough lag or stuttering frames.
I hope the text is as crisp as they say too because that’s the number one use case I’m thinking of — designing, writing and coding on several vertical portrait mode screens at once.
@alabut multiscreen was not convincing at all. Total immersion in beautiful typography is my kind of fetish I could imagine falling for. Writing completely encapsulated in a space made of super crisp 3d letters is something I'd also risk to be seen as an asocial weirdo. But then again I know too well that true immersion is not about perfecting simulation but about interest, focus, flow and plausibility.
@reichenstein you might be right. Hell you’re probably completely right. I’m still going to hold out hope though! I’m so sick of every monitor I own and having to print things out like a caveman. It’s satisfying to do occasionally like when I want to grab a red pen and edit a draft, but every other time it feels like I’m going to be stuck in 1999 until my eyes bleed.
Also I just realized — maybe they can make it crisper than I’m imagining because of the eye tracking? Like maybe not everything in your field of view is at retina-quality pixel density because it doesn’t need to be, so the sharpest stuff could be only exactly where you’re looking. Peripheral vision is super blurry and we stitch together the mental illusion of one large canvas with our occipital lobe.
Szymon Nowicki@reichenstein @alabut they did show a girl with a game controller playing nba game. What you refer was later with a love NBA game with some simulations. Two different times.
Jerome Dahdah @ 🇳🇱@reichenstein Unless Apple allows side-loading on the device, the whole adult segment will be a non-starter. No App Store category for that.
@dahdah There was a browser.
Moritz Zimmer@reichenstein @dahdah And they promoted Web Apps heavily too. There's now even a foundation to "Add to the dock". With iOS being a dedicated module of visionOS it's likely part of 1.0 too.
Jérôme@reichenstein This keynote really proved how VR was doomed next to AR.
Phil Amour@reichenstein SharePlay 😉 😉 😉
iancundell ⚒ 🇺🇦
Tim Peix@reichenstein @simonstalenhag Looking forward to browsing through #theelectricstate on the #visionpro knowing I’ll be in a “prison of endless possibilities”.
Lionel Rudaz@reichenstein worst image from Apple ever.
Epiphanic Synchronicity@reichenstein It’s like a first step on the way to the Matrix.
Denkfix@reichenstein Agreed, but on the other hand coolness is a question of perception that might change. Remember how once upon a time people with AirPods sticking out from there ears got ridiculed?
Nate Barham@reichenstein But so were AirPods, and now we don’t even notice. Not that Vision Pro will ever get to that level in its current hardware form obviously, but remember how bizarre people talking on Bluetooth headsets used to look?