Beats

mjtomlin said:

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.

Seriously, man. This is a solution for the rare individual that sits in front of the TV and actually looks at the screen while watching a movie or TV show. Who then may at some point briefly get up or momentarily look away. This isn't meant for Cirque du Soleil performers who just want background noise.

You sound like one of those people who are constantly asking questions, talking over dialog because you're not paying attention to the movie. The only mess here, is your wild, defeatist imagination. 

dysamoria said:

9secondkox2 said:

1.  Yes it probably was political as was much of the COVID-19 response. Government authoritarianism people’s private lives is not something to support. 

2. Apple is not a monopoly. They are a large successful company with a very nice cohesive platform that has taken a long time to get right. And it is right. 

3. The irresponsible trend of developers who’ve got an axe to grind jumping on Epic “Apple is a monopoly!” Bandwagon has got to stop. It’s false, potentially harmful, and doesn’t help the disgruntled like they would hope. It’s just lashing out. Like a child does. 

Grow up and learn to make your own case. 

1. What was political? Trying to reduce the spread of a disease with high lethality?

2. Apple may not be a monopoly, but they absolutely do have a lot of influence and power, as a multi-billion-dollar entity. They engage in laissez-faire capitalism just as aggressively as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. Their business model is fundamentally different from Google & Facebook, but not so different from Microsoft, and it’s long been believed in the Apple fanatic community that Microsoft is “the great enemy” (after they defeated IBM, who was the previous “great enemy”). Do not show loyalty to corporations; they have no loyalty to citizens or countries.

3. I agree, but we should not paint everything with the same brush. Apple deserves some criticism, though THIS story is NOT one of those cases where they’re in the wrong. Acting for the public good is a wise & ethical choice, even if the corporate motivator is company public image (gotta pick our battles; corporations doing good for others as a consequence of doing good for themselves is better than ONLY serving their interests, which is more often the case).

aderutter said:

Yes it’s a mixed bag doing it this way, but on balance it is the better option of the two.

The optimal solution would have been enabling a user to specify where the display device is and in what orientation to the ATV. 

I use an ATV that is stationary and I use it on a TV that is about 5 feet away diagonally. I also use ithe same ATV with my projector that is at a 90 degree angle (different wall) 16feet away.