This is insanely frustrating. You want me to spend $3500 on a device my partner can't even use regularly?
https://www.macworld.com/article/1944557/apple-vision-pro-user-account-guest.html
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Is it really fair for Trump to be tried as an adult? 🤔
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/07/apple-vision-pro-hands-on/
I think it's telling that tech journalists, people who have tried a lot of VR gear over the past few years, have been completely blown away.
Personally, I'm getting one. Yes it's expensive. But I'm looking at it like this - in 20 years, even if this turns out to be a Pippin or Lisa, I'm going to be happy I have it on my shelf.
An interesting note about the Vision Pro announcement yesterday - no discussion whatsoever of any kind of a "metaverse." All video calls were with non-VR users on webcams.
I think Apple is trying to be realistic - for the next few years, adoption will be low enough that you're almost never going to be on a call with other Vision Pro users. So they are highlighting the actual, real world use cases rather than some idealized future.
I wonder how Apple Vision Pro is going to work when you're lying down (which will probably happen often)
My favorite conceptual use-case for Apple Vision Pro - kitchen tasks. Virtually pin recipes around the kitchen to look at as I cook. Watch a movie in the periphery as I clean up. Add items I need to my shopping list with my voice. Currently I'm constantly moving my iPad around the kitchen to do these things, often with dirty hands.
Whew! I was really worried Apple's rendering pipeline wouldn't be dynamically foveated
Interesting. Last year the gap between keynote and platforms SotU was four hours. This year it's three and a half.
Shorter keynote? @gruber still think they will announce a headset?
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/23/apple-announces-wwdc-2023-schedule/
And furthermore, we do not need to worry about AI taking away jobs. Mass unemployment leads to uprisings and revolutions. Heads will roll. The elites know this. They will find a way to keep people employed in some capacity.
I'm skeptical of AI actually becoming advanced enough to accomplish general purpose tasks any time soon. Every time I've used ChatGPT to generate text, it requires either a lot of editing, or a lot of iterative feedback to get it to a usable state. For the next several decades, AI will just help people accomplish tasks quicker, so they can move on to other tasks. And as anyone who has ever had a job knows, accomplishing tasks faster does not lead to less work.