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  • Sizing up Tim Cook's vision for an immersive wearable

    There’s only two more frontiers possible with the internet, the internet as part of your world or the internet as a place you can go to an actually experience. And the Apple Vision platform does both. There will be a day where we think it’s quaint that we experienced the internet on a 20” monitor or a 4” phone screen. Why watch NBA highlights on a small phone screen when you can experience the highlights like you’re court side or actually on the court with the players? Why shop for things on a small phone screen when you can feel as though your actually in the store and looking at something in three dimensions as though it’s actually in front of you? 
    I mean to be fair you could already do this with any other headset available today. The developers of the shopping experience or sporting events are the ones that need to make this possible, not Apple per se. I don't see why these experiences could only happen now that Apple made a headset. A headset not all that different than all the other headsets offered today. Yes it does a lot of things better than the others, but was there anything really ground breaking that we haven't already seen?

    The VR experiences that you talked about will have their place and will be neat but right now it still feels more like 3D TVs at this point. Cool in theory but not really practical. There are some major drawbacks to these experiences as well. One of the best parts about watching games and movies is doing it with friends. Everyone gathered around the TV cheering, high fives, whatever. This completely takes you out of that experience. Maybe if you want to watch the game with your dad while you're at college it might be cool but unless you are alone this experience kinda sucks.  Lots of unknowns with this tech still but from what the Vision Pro has showed us so far, I wouldn't get my hopes up this will be anything more than niche. 




    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Sizing up Tim Cook's vision for an immersive wearable

    Why does no one mention how small this market is? Smartphones and smart watches were large markets with massive growth rates before Apple got it them. VR/AR is not. Apple didn't bring anything completely ground breaking to this industry so I don't understand what the strategy is to make this another "next big thing" moment. Maybe they aren't looking for that, but that wouldn't feel very Apple to me. 

    Tech has followed a trend of becoming less cumbersome for the user for 50 years. From large room-sized computers, to personal computers, to the mouse and GUI, to the laptop, the smartphone, touch and now voice. This headset feels like a step backwards at least for a computing device. People are inherently lazy and having to put a device on your head when you could just check you phone, watch or ask Siri (yea I know that's still terrible) for basic tasks doesn't seem like something someone will pay money for.  

    The other argument I hear is that "this will be amazing when it's the size of a pair of sunglasses". Handing waving away how difficult it would be to shrink this tech down to that size, you still run into the same problem mentioned above. You have to go find your glasses to use them. Unless you wear your glasses 24/7, it's still an inconvenience. Secondly, you lose the ability to have VR with sunglasses unless they make them like swimming goggles. 

    :# :# LASTLY and something I still don't understand why no one is talking about is the health risks. Multiple studies have shown that using IR light close to the eye can damage the eye and potentially cause diseases like cataracts. The Vision Pro has like 14 IR sensors a centimeter from your eye. Sorry but I'm not going to be wearing something like that until you can definitely show me there is no risk to MY vision. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon
  • iPhone 15 will get new stacked camera, but not the iPhone 15 Pro

    If this is true, what is the selling point for the 15 Pro? The 15 Pro Max will have the new telephoto lens. The 15 and 15 Max will have the new stacked sensor, which may be smaller than the sensor being reused from the 14 Pro to the 15 Pro but its stacked properties will mean it could out perform the 15 Pro's sensor.

    So what is the reason to buy the 15 Pro this year? The action button? Maybe the suspected glass/plastic hybrid lens might be a selling point but man this does not sound like the year to update to a Pro especially if you do it for the camera. 
    watto_cobra
  • Future MacBook Pro could split at the hinge and be truly modular

    Imagine you have the power of an iPad in the screen. Power of a macbook when connected to the keyboard
    iPads are already running the same chips as MacBooks. The only power limitation comes from cooling and battery size. Hell, the new iPhone Pro will have 8Gb of RAM and start with 256GB of storage, the same as my M1 MacBook but have a faster processor!
    apple4thewinmacikeFileMakerFeller
  • Everything new in iOS 17 Photos & Camera

    Have you compared photos taken with iOS16 v 17? I'd love to know if the over-sharpening is reduced in iOS17.
    byronl