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
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
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.
@alabut Immersion: I can write for 6 hours and forget eating, drinking taking a pause and be super concentrated on text, but then I have 30 Seconds to run to the toilet because my body and mind didn't want to accept anything but "How do I shape these words so they express what I feel?" I don't need goggles for that. Putting twenty simulated monitors in my room projected right into my eyes 1 inch away from my retina wouldn't make me feel free from screens.
@reichenstein ha, good for you! I haven’t been that in the flow that hard for a long time, but then again I’m barely getting the rust off of my blogging muscles lately and hope I can hit that zone again soon. I’ve had some luck constraining myself to an iPad and decamping for a Starbucks, plus the A.I. voice transcription apps help with setting the initial direction.
So you’re probably right and shouldn’t need some expensive tool to write, just practice and focus.
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.