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  • Apple Music-streamed Astroworld crowd crush kills 8

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    hexclock said:

    Camera operator was probably on Astroworld crew. They would be filming whether Apple streamed it or not. Apple would just get a feed sent from the camera operators. 

    No, Apple would have received a feed from one of the satellite uplink trucks that was getting it’s feed from one of the production trucks. This camera op was probably getting screamed at by the director or TD or producer (take your pick) over the rts to “get me a shot”, “fix your shot”,”what the f*@$ is going on” or whatever and it’s not his job to do anything other than to be a camera op. If someone climbed on to his platform that person is lucky they didn’t get pushed off or escorted out of the event by security.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Music-streamed Astroworld crowd crush kills 8

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    Did Apple Music stream the video of the concert or just the audio? One fan climbed up onto a camera stand to yell to the camera man to stop the concert because people were dying. The camera man reacted with anger and threatened to have her thrown off the high stand. If that was an Apple employee or contractor, this is very much an Apple story.
    Yea `cause that camera op could have just snapped his/her fingers and stopped the entire event.🙄
    arturo.soldatinibaconstangleavingthebiggwatto_cobra

  • Netatmo debuts new HomeKit-compatible smart CO detector

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    Smoke, fire, VOC and CO detectors need to be replaced at least every ten years due to the actual detecting part of the devices wearing out.
    StrangeDaysdewme

  • 'Apple Glass' could project AR directly onto a wearer's retina

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    There is a physical advantage to it:   When projected in front of the eye, the lens & eye would have to adjust to focus on it and thus take focus away from the main area of attention (say a driver approaching an intersection).   Aside from being distracting, that could be draining for a driver.

    By putting the image directly on the retina, it avoids that (re)focusing.
    But then, it seems, it would introduce a new wrinkle:   how does the beam get through the lens without being bent -- which is the purpose of the lens (which bends light by variable amounts to suit the obect of attention).

    This seems more practical in a person with post cataract surgery since most of those lenses are static and don't adjust for focus.
    Having owned a few cars with a HUD since 2004, most of them have some have a bit of adjustment for the perceived distance of the display. The 2 that were fixed distance were at the perceived to be at the front of the car, the adjustable ones have allowed for moving the perceived distance up to about 20’ from the front windshield. This allows you to see the information without refocusing from the traffic or whatever else is in front of you. F1 drivers have had these since roughly 1995 and, of course, combat pilots have had HUD for much longer. 

    If it’s being patented by a public company my guess is that it is already has been in use in the military for 10+ years, that is, if it works.
    rundhvidbyronl

  • Apple must make changes to in-app payment requirement, Dutch antitrust agency says

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    I bought a Mac Mini w/an M1 processor and demand that Microsoft build and support the same OS that they use for their ARM based products. 
    thtwatto_cobra