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Spatial Audio head tracking on Apple TV automatically resets when you get up from the couc...
Get a grip — it’s not a mess, you haven’t even tried it yet alone be positioned to declare it a mess. That you don’t think tvOS engineers ask these same questions is baffling. Just because they didn’t use whatever system you dreamed up in your head doesn’t mean they’re doing it wrong.Beats said:What a mess. It calibrates according to the user looking in a direction for a certain amount of time?
What if user is talking to someone? What if they’re looking down at their iPhone? What if they’re in the kitchen?.....
If the user is sitting off to the side and not directly in front of the TV will the objects follow their assumed panning? (Admittedly this would be cool).
For example you’re on the left side of the room. Batmobile speeds off to the left in the movie. It sounds like you’re gonna be ran over.
I’ve wanted a TrueDepth camera array for Apple TV for years pre-Spatial Audio and the lost benefits are compounding. The camera would have solved these problems.
(Sogg, is that you!?)
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Apple Wallet will support IDs and driver's licenses in iOS 15
In Louisiana we have a hands-off protocol (LEOs take a picture of your ID loaded on your phone in our state's app). It's kinda clunky. But if the ID was loaded into Wallet it would be even better, because the phone can remain locked while allowing review of a card inside it (double-click of Side Button).eightzero said:There is no chance I will ever use the ID app to voluntarily hand my iPhone to a law enforcement officer.
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Apple increases reliance on Chinese suppliers
Here come the pro-China astroturfers. Yeah no, China's abysmal human rights record is conspiracy theory, it's fact. Even the UN has come to this conclusion:davewrite said:"Additionally, there have been concerns about human rights abuses in China,"
Here we go again.
The same disinformation campaign used against Iraq ( "we got proof including eyeswittness of Iraqi WMD"), Syria, , Libya etc.
First the disinformation campaign to demonize the country, then USA supplied 'liberation' groups (often terrorists organizations) , and the disintegration of the region.
At least hundreds of thousands dead in Iraq , millions of refugees in Syria etc and the playbook is used again.
(In various resolutions practically all the countries condemning China are Western except Japan which has a frayed history with China and which was arm twisted by USA as member of the Quad defense collective, and some USA influenced islands like the Marshall islands.
At least 54 countries have given SUPPORT to China over Xinjiang including the majority of MUSLIM countries including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Morocco, South Sudan, etc. Except for Japan and the aforementioned USA influenced islands not one ASIAN country has condemned China over Xinjiang .
Few people believe, after events in Palestines etc, the west cares about muslims in Xinjiang except as a China containment policy. )
Containment and disruption policy ? Don't believe me? Go watch this video where USA official describe years ago the USA strategic objective in Xinjiang.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU
And numerous others. Genocide finding:https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/china-uyghurs-xinjiang-genocide-report-intl-hnk/index.html
Organ harvesting:
Camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
...I spent a couple weeks studying in China, both inland and with Uyghurs in Xinjiang. While that doesn't make me an expert, it did give me more firsthand accounts than most people arguing online will ever get. The Chinese people are great, the CCP is not. Pretending it's just a vast international conspiracy against China immediately identifies you.
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2021 2nd-Generation Siri Remote Review: The star of the show
The app has to support it. Crap apps like YouTube don’t.peterhart said:
I agree…it is heavy. And even tho a few articles have explained it, I STILL cannot get the clickwheel scrub function to work.maclvr03 said:I set up my ATV last night. I find the new remote heavy for what it is.
0. Pause video (just like you do to start normal scrubbing)
1. Tap the outer ring and hold
2. Wait for jog dial circle to appear on screen
3. Jog right or left
As for weight, this is lighter than nearly every TV remote I’ve used for decades (which all contained removable batteries). Heavier than the prior version, but lighter than any normal big plastic remote.
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2021 Apple TV 4K Review: Seeking a blockbuster, given a Band-Aid
On the 2017 version of the Apple TV 4K, playing NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition as part of an Apple Arcade subscription, textures on the player's jerseys are so low resolution that I'm convinced it must be a bug of sorts. Upon setting up the new 2021 Apple TV 4K, I launched NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition to see if there were any improvements. The menu and game seemed to load faster, but those low-res eyesore textures were still there.
...you do realize Apple's device doesn't alter textures in a developer's game, right? That's on them to do.
