Apple's September 14 Event Page Features AR Logo on iPhone

[machinesworking]

Just waiting for this one to be over so they can get on to the 14-16" Apple Silicon macbook pros.

I went from a 6s+ to a 12max last year, have no interest in a new phone.

 

[vegetassj4]

From the clues I think the Apple glasses will have some sort of Inception mode where you might be in an AR of an AR

There are two VR's. The VR to your right leads to the new iPhone Pro and the salvation of the world (and it's only $1999). The VR to your left leads back to Microsoft, to Cortana... and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice.

 

[matrix07]

I haven’t seen anything from AR that makes me say I need that. Apple needs to apply it to some killer app or its just gonna be another Apple Pay, animoji gimmick that only 5 % use.

If you're talking about the other article today I'm not sure that survey is very accurate.

Apple Pay used for more than 90% of US mobile wallet debit transactions in 2020

The number of debit transactions completed using a mobile wallet in the US rose by 51% year-on-year to approximately 2bn in 2020.

www.nfcw.com

 

[alexandr]

If only they would spend their time on more important things. You know...like finishing the OS instead of relying on 3rd party developers to meet basic functions that Apple can never seem to get around to.

then they would be your typical mediocre brand as opposed to what they have become.

 

[cmaier]

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I don’t get it.

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

May as well demo the Jobs Theatre at this rate. It’ll all be digital and never-ending variants. 😂

 

[Tagbert]

Unless some people live in middle of no where how often do you get opportunity to take astrophotography? Light pollution are pretty bad in most cities.

That's why you need to drive out into the country for that. We sometimes do that to see meteor showers. If you haven't done so, consider it as an outing.

 

[johnnylarue]

Whoa, coooool!

 

[PlainviewX]

Astral photography improvements as a selling point is very niche since most people live near cities and light pollution makes it completely impossible for even the best converted cameras and computer controlled tracking.

 

[Scoob Redux]

ugh. I was hoping for something new and interesting. Looks like a boooooooring event if that's the big reveal.

 

[Lestdog]

Unless some people live in middle of no where how often do you get opportunity to take astrophotography? Light pollution are pretty bad in most cities.

Many travel to take pictures. Everyone in southern ca live no more than a couple hours to the desert.

 

[sean+mac]

This seemingly boring AR "floating logo" turned out to be pretty creative once I played around more: if you scale it up, you can then walk into it and rotate the phone around 720 degrees to see the scene (stars, etc.) Standing "inside" the logo dimension you can see out through the logo back into the real world.

(Sometimes the tracking would get confused and blip the "in logo" experience away, but overall a cool idea.)

 

[lucasrant]

This seemingly boring AR "floating logo" turned out to be pretty creative once I played around more: if you scale it up, you can then walk into it and rotate the phone around 720 degrees to see the scene (stars, etc.) Standing "inside" the logo dimension you can see out through the logo back into the real world.

(Sometimes the tracking would get confused and blip the "in logo" experience away, but overall a cool idea.)

And if you're wearing headphones, there's some spatial audio included!

 

[Razorpit]

So when you pick up the device the camera will turn on and all of your notifications will appear to "hover" in AR space so you don't walk in to walls, out in to traffic, or in to a water fountain.

 

[ellsworth]

When iPhones reach the caliber of DSLR's and Micro 4/3'rd cameras, I'll be impressed. Until then, use the right gear for the right shoots.

 

[TravelsInBlue]

Hopefully not AR, they keep trying to make it a thing…


It’s not going to be a thing.

 

[Ries]

Astral photography improvements as a selling point is very niche since most people live near cities and light pollution makes it completely impossible for even the best converted cameras and computer controlled tracking.

So it's going to add artificial stars at the correct locations

 

[nouvejetzt]

With enough imagination you can see M1X in the picture and even made out of dragon glass.

 

[Shoju]

Always on display?

Definitely. The hovering “9.14” clearly indicates that. 🤓

 

[falainber]

Both AR and astro-photography are of extremely marginal interest to most consumers. If these things are the focus of the next event, it indicates that these events outlived their purpose.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I’m really excited to hear about updates to things that almost nobody uses…

Like AR

 

[SidricTheViking]

Does anyone know how to get this to work? I get no reaction when I tap on the Apple Logo on the events page linked in the article. Is there some setting I might need to change? Checked on a friend’s iPhone 11 (identical to mine) and it worked immediately.

 

[Böhme417]

And since the date is formatted with a period, we are all going to become Europe.

I can’t stand dates written this way, and it seems like everyone is doing it now. You’d think with a company supposedly so focused on design, they’d come up with something more creative and pleasing to the eye.

 

[ascender]

Does anyone know how to get this to work? I get no reaction when I tap on the Apple Logo on the events page linked in the article. Is there some setting I might need to change? Checked on a friend’s iPhone 11 (identical to mine) and it worked immediately.

It starts to work on my iPhone - goes in to AR mode but I just get the spinning cog of nothing-ness.

On my iPad Pro, nothing happens at all when I try to select the logo 😀

Well done everyone!

 

[cmaier]

I can’t stand dates written this way, and it seems like everyone is doing it now. You’d think with a company supposedly so focused on design, they’d come up with something more creative and pleasing to the eye.

If you hate periods, you must really hate umlauts?