Accidental Tech Podcast606: A Decade of Half-Presses
https://atp.fm/606
Our first impressions of the Camera Control, iPhone 16 Pro cases, (These) AirPods 4 with ANC, and the Apple Watch Series 10.
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@atpfm This episode was "Accidental Touch Podcast"
Re Overtime: have you seen the activity in VR180 forums in the last few months … weeks, even? People are working out how to shoot "dual 8K" or stereo VR180 video with fisheye lenses, typically on a Canon camera + Canon lens, that looks like a googley eyes
(photo from the Medium post, not me)
I rented this camera and lens as a bit of a side-project (in turn, to a hobby-project) where I've been experimenting in shooting things in 8K that really need 8K — i.e., fireworks. Oh, and HDR baby!
But living deep inside the 8K world (even 8K120 and thousands of nits of HDR) it really does feel like 8K will never take off … the TVs haven't evolved in 5 years now
8KTV feels the same as 4K + SDR did
Whereas VR180 is *WOW*WOW*WOW*
The question is … are we in the same place as HDTV in the year 2000? It was an amazing but boutique technology, definitely the future, but too expensive (and needed to go flat-panel for consumers to embrace)
Or are we at Macintosh 1984, 1985 … where you could look at the sales figures for the pokey little black-and-white computer and declare "nobody will ever use windows/icons/mice/pulldown menus" because "it costs more and it's limited to monochrome for price!"
@atpfm Where I'm going with that is that high-resolution headsets feel like an entirely new TV format, which isn't necessarily obvious, because you can't just walk past them in a store like you could when TVs went widescreen, then flatscreen, then HD, then HDR — and each time, you could see the impact
But right now, I'm quite excited … I mean, I need more CPU/GPU/disk/(you name it haha) … but I'm quite excited about producing AND consuming media in this format
I haven't felt this way since iDVD was launched and I remember people walking out of a MacWorld expo saying what they were going to make with it, heading out to buy the fastest PowerMac G4 and a SuperDrive DVD-R