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  • Apple Vision Pro one month review: a new reality is setting in

    hmlongco said:
    pdnoble said:
    The other content consumption category with great spacial potential is live sports. 


    Would a football game be great if the players were on the other end of the field? Or do you switch seats? Not sure the experience would be better than the closeups and multiple camera angles one gets now. Personally, I think front row concerts and plays have as much potential (or more).

    I agree that some sports would be more complex to effectively cover than others and an NBA game would certainly seem easier than a football game. But this is from Apple's own press release two weeks ago:
    • Coming soon, all Apple Vision Pro users can experience the best of the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs with the first-ever sports film captured in Apple Immersive Video. Viewers will feel every heart-pounding moment in 8K 3D with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio that transports them to each match.
      I also agree that concerts have great potential and a perfect fit for Apple. It's seems crazy that every major play/musical isn't captured in high def before it closes as a matter of course, and a single spacial camera would be a simple and effective approach. I suspect the issue is union related. 

      I was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Monday and the opera, Verdi's La Forza del Destino, was being simulcast to movie theaters using multiple cameras including, seat mounted, boom mounted and a remote controlled stage mounted camera zipping back and forth on a track. A single Apple spatial camera could fully capture the audience experience without all the multi-camera switching. 
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    • Apple Vision Pro one month review: a new reality is setting in

      The other content consumption category with great spacial potential is live sports. I would predict that this will prove to be a big AVP demand driver and that it has been a key motivation for Apple's move into sports streaming rights. They are already experimenting with capturing soccer (MLS) and basketball, from what I have read. Being Apple they are no doubt refining production techniques and other aspects of live spacial content creation, distribution and consumption before introducing a polished platform. Also the acquisition of secondary spacial streaming rights, e.g., market speculation re collaboration with Disney or outright purchase of ESPN.

      I can't think of a sport that wouldn't benefit from spatial consumption: from field games to X Games, from golf to FI, with basketball an obvious early candidate in terms of simplicity of production: a single court-side camera would allow a viewer to experience the game from the best seat in the arena (and yes, we have all seen the photos of the court-side Apple spacial camera(s)). 


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    • Tony Fadell wants to see iPhone move to USB-C

      The Lightening cable works 100% with its positive lock design.  If my succession of MacBooks is anything to go by, USB-C is a sometimes-connection. Truly second rate, mechanically speaking. 

      I’m guessing Apple is completely focused on the end of direct cable connections to devices. Sooner than later. 
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    • Apple added more than 30 million paid subscriptions in 2022

      30 million more subscribers, not subscriptions: 30 million Apple device owners buying services for the first time this quarter.

      30 million new subscriptions would be inconsequential considering there are more than 1 billion discrete Apple customers: would mean less than 3% of Apple customers purchased new services. 

      Services revenues went up 12.64%.  

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    • M2 MacBook Air review roundup: This is the Mac you're looking for

      On an aesthetic note: I had immediately ordered a midnight blue custom configuration, which looks terrific in marketing photos, despite warnings re fingerprints by those at the introduction. THEY WERE, OF COURSE, ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! I just went to the Apple Store and the Midnight Blue display unit, on display for just one hour, looked absolutely awful. Covered in fingerprints. By far the worst affected color. Even space gray seems unaffected. I immediately cancelled the order and reordered in the traditional Silver. The good news: my delivery is unaffected: August 1-8. The traditional silver anyhow still looks, to my eye, the best by far, putting fingerprints aside.
      williamlondonwatto_cobraAlex_V