What we’ve seen of visionOS is really impressive. But thinking about the bits that are currently missing…
HUDs aren’t shown. Maybe they look weird when they aren’t anchored to your space. Maybe their applications are no good if other people in the space can’t see them.
But I wanna see more AR applications for drivers and pilots and surgeons.
Likewise we never saw any in-person shared experiences.
Whether multiple Vision devices would need to coordinate wirelessly (and know their relative position in meatspace), or whether it’d just be a FaceTime call with someone in the same room, you have to assume Apple’s own industrial designers and mechanicals designers want to collaborate on 3D models.
We also only ever saw indoor AR.
Easy to imagine R1 getting overwhelmed when the environment is changing, at speed or with environmental noise like leaves on the wind, or snowfall, but you have to imagine SlopesVision by @parrots would be *incredible*
TLDR outdoor mobile social AR is what everyone *sees* is the ideal use case (hovering nametags at a party, etc) but the state of the art is indoor standstill solo AR
Still really want one though…
@clarko I don't think this is the hardware for outdoor or industrial use, but really the only thing stopping multi person/same room is software, and you gotta imagine they're working on it.
The interesting thing to me is that IMO no other apple device has had such a huge post-launch change in how it was designed to be used. It's hard to even think of an example, maybe like if the iPad could become a table where four people could work, but only with a software update. Absurd!
@Soroush this *specific* hardware no, of course. But we’re all wishcasting in multiple directions. I guess the $6000 Vision Ultra is the one for extreme sports.
I think iPad’s transformation from “big iPod touch” to “Wacom all-in-one” to “touchscreen laptop” is a pretty huge set of changes. But that’s all opt-in with additional hardware. The base case is unchanged.
I hate to think how quickly this hardware will evolve, and how much money we’ll drop on upgrades.
More on this: proximity-based SharePlay is needed just to solve the case of your boss walking up to your desk and asking for a demo. Or swiveling around and asking a coworker for some help on a problem.
Otherwise you gotta go to different rooms and set up a meeting to present your work and talk through it.
Seems like the kind of feature that’s *so* important for office work that you can’t even imagine Apple putting headsets on employees’ desks until it’s solved.
Back to WFH everybody!
@clarko @bradellis along the lines of a calendar on the wall: spatial HomeKit would be awesome! 🤩 Look at a light and pinch to turn it on/off. Flick to open the blinds.
(Like this but better https://apps.apple.com/app/devices-control-for-homekit/id966877433)
Devices is the Apple HomeKit app that lets you manage and control smart home devices quickly and intuitively. Each device is represented by a specific icon. There is no complicated menu structure – all devices are shown in an overview and can be sorted by room or device type. In addition, the app bo…
Light and Music Spatial Computing Prototype
@clarko I think it’s very interesting that apps are (to some extent) still confined to the window borders. There’s clearly some iteration to be done on the software development story.
But this is very early days.
@apike Oh yeah we’re gonna need some object permanence before we get that.
Same as pinning things to the walls — I’m guessing visionOS doesn’t know or care that the objects in my home are meaningfully different to me than the ones in my hotel room.
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