Joe Pantuso

@renegade
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Long time dev/tech leader. You might know me from PKZip, DoomEd, McAfee firewall
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Why is the UI and UX for the Home app on Mac still so incredibly execrable after multiple years? It's embarrassing, and a solo developer could blow it away with six months effort. The level of investment in these things makes no sense to me.
The lack of a ‘tripod’ mount on the bottom of the home pod is a huge fail for some awesome use cases. I’d love to mount a half dozen as pendant speakers in our bar, it could be amazing.

I have no idea how many Vision Pros are being returned, but I will say I think people would be surprised how many influencers buy the new Apple thing, make some “content” about it, and return it before their window closes.

Again I don’t know, but telling people “I returned my M3 Max MacBook because I don’t need to upgrade my computer” doesn’t generate likes/links/etc. like “I returned Apple’s new headset” does.

TIL that iOS will generate a pull-quote for you. Highlight some text in safari, then use the “share” button to send a text message. You’ll get an opengraph-looking embed.
@renegade @viticci @johnvoorhees if you look at ifixit’s teardown they have a really neat view of the Vision Pro’s IR illuminators: https://www.ifixit.com/News/90409/vision-pro-teardown-part-2-whats-the-display-resolution
Vision Pro Teardown Part 2: What’s the Display Resolution? | iFixit News

We dug deeper into the most densely-packed tech we’ve seen yet. Incredible display resolution discoveries, some great battery info, and yes, we assigned a repair score.

iFixit

What a night

#photography

The AVP is useless in a dark room otherwise; it can't see your gestures so you can't control it if you want to watch something in a dim or dark room.

You can find smaller IR lights that are advertised as being Quest accessories. Just using this because I had it lying around. "quest ir light" will surface lots of options.

attn:
@viticci @johnvoorhees

The cameras in the iPhone, and apparently the cameras in the AVP that are used for your view, have filters or other ways of blocking out the majority of IR, no night vision trick I'm afraid. This is clearly NOT the case for the cameras that are looking at your hands/face/body.

I've been using this extra one with the Quest because it really needs help with sensor accuracy. Using a flood like this lets you actually see in the dark in the quest and use it just fine. Literally in complete darkness.

The sensor chip in cameras can inherently see much more of the spectrum than the human eye, handy for night vision cameras etc.

Here's a useful thing to know and try for the Vision Pro that will greatly enhance your hand gesture/pinch accuracy, especially in low light.

Put an infrared light in the room. The one pictured is a floodlight type that I had multiple of because I put some up to enhance night vision on security cameras outside.

#avp #visionpro