22july2013

StrangeDays said:

22july2013 said:

That will save me some time, although I wish there was a way to get Siri to stop repeating my question. If I say (and I say things like this often) "Hey Siri, how much is 24 times 360", I really don't need to have Siri repeat the question. Just give me the answer.

Not repeating means you'd have intrinsic trust 100% of the time that the question was heard correctly. I certainly do not.

I wasn't saying that Siri should never repeat the question, I was just saying I wanted to be able to disable that. You can leave it enabled.

I don't know much about optics so I don't know how people with prescription lenses can get this device to accommodate their eyesight. Are those lenses in the Vision Pro replaceable with custom prescription lenses? In any case clearly Apple has made this device with features to accommodate people who need corrective vision, so that probably won't be a reason for this device to fail. I'm not worried about that now.

Apple did a lot of things right. If it works well, the Vision Pro may be able to replace a display. But I'm not sure if eye fatigue will be a problem. And for those of us with eczema who scratch our foreheads, eyebrows and noses a lot, that may also be a problem. (Skin fatigue?)

I did predict that Apple would make it work with Facetime by assembling your eyes with your face using an external camera. I just didn't realize the camera would be mounted on the external frame of the device. (I thought they would use some sort of selfie stick contraption.) I also predicted correctly that the new chip would be called the "R1."

Is it possible to link the device to my iris in such a way that a thief would never be able to use my device if they happened to grab it and run away? Or can a thief do a factory reset and match it to his own iris? I would be afraid to use it in public without this.

chutzpah said:

22july2013 said:

chutzpah said:

Wish you could customise it to whatever you want.

I agree. Many years ago I posted on this website a long list of alternatives to "Hey Siri" I wanted to use. one of them was "Computer" but I can't remember my other ideas.

EDIT: I found my old post (Nov 6, 2022). Here's what I suggested:

• Hey Computer (reminds me of a scene in IT Crowd)
• Hey There
• Hey Dude
• Hey Servant
• Hey You
• Hey Jude
• Hideyho
• Hey Zeus (bit of a pun there, if you are a theist)
• Hey Arnold!

"Many years ago"?

Yup! You caught me on a quantitative error! Congratulations.

It took 1.2 years to build all 102 floors of the Empire State Building (4 days per floor), but it takes 2 years to build 2 floors these days (365 days per floor).

There are at least 50 large companies in China building products using unmonitored AI software and exporting them to the EU for profit. Does the EU plan on banning any of them? Eg, DJI.