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Apple's September 15 Event Page Includes Morphing AR Logo

I am so ready for AR but no way can I see will they announce the glasses first time at a virtual event unless they are not even ready to be touched. These are things you want journalists trying and immediately buzzing on.
 
itsmilo said:
and probably the only time I’d use it. I still have not found a use case for AR that isn’t a gimmick like this one
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I use it for the ikea furniture app, Anytime I want to buy new furniture (not that often). I find something ikea has in the same dimensions and use it to see what it'll look like in my house.
 
Doc C said:
Children of Dune?
Is there a decent video version of this series? (all the ones that I've seen so far have been less-than-spectacular; I recall watching the version with Sting and realizing that I was transiently disoriented/confused because they skipped about 100 pages of the book.) With the spectacular treatment that Lord of the Rings received, I'm always hopeful that someone with similar vision and ambition will take on the Dune series and do it properly.
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Dune (1st book by Frank Herbert) was the movie starring Sting as Feyd Ratha (Harkonnen) and produced by Dino De Laurentis. HUGE budget yet unfortunately with such a vast novel with huge concepts could NOT be fit into a 2.5hr movie. They did pretty good if you've read the book. This was in the early 80's the original move released.

Dune the TV series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/
- 2 part mini series in 2000. It's ok, yet, in my opinion, seemed to be even more loosely based - BUT it was made with the intent and the sign off on budget to continue the story so there is linearity to it.

Children of Dune TV 3 part mini series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287839/
Stars a very young James McAvoy as Duke Leto Atreides II ; was released in 2003 and probably the best of these mini-series. There is a scene where James is supposed to running miles a second to show his enhanced speed abilities and it just looks horrible (not much spend on CGI on this scene). I attribute this to the direction of the producer to have the scenes look more realistic and not waste such costs on heavy CGI.

I'll try to upload a video except of the conversation and sign-language in a moment.

EDIT I hope this works as the video is 1:28 long and too big to upload using Macrumors directly).
https://mega.nz/file/5KwnjYhb#M6RgHijzfSrHINQnNHKsTYv2v6Nxb1PqnXFnbSm-Izs
 
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jlocker said:
Wonder if they are ready for the launch of Big Sur and those are waves crashing on the shore :)
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The only thing Big Sur is crashing is my machine :-( Seriously, this has got to be the worst macOS beta in a long time. In the last beta, whenever I closed my laptop and then reopened it later, it wouldn't come out of sleep. And AirPlay played its sounds on the laptop while projecting the video to the TV I'm AirPlaying to :-( They fixed the latter with the subsequent beta last week, but my laptop still has trouble after waking up - sometimes it doesn't, forcing me to power off. Sometimes the login screen appears and it endlessly tries to unlock from an Apple Watch that's in another room - and with the mouse cursor unable to move, I can't enter my password manually. Again, I end up having to power off/on :-(

And this is a beta fairly close to release time :-(
 
Gorms said:
Killer AR is gonna need 5G super low latency. These things go together
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I don't see how AR is going to need 5G. AR will have an iPhone receive & send signal from/to Apple Glass - that's short distance, so no need for 5G at all. IMO, probably some proprietary hardware-to-hardware solution by Apple.
 
coolfactor said:
Folks, here's why Steve always said you gotta show consumers what they need because they don't know it until you show it to them.

AR is going to play very important roles in the (near) future. It's not a gimmick.
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Apple already showed us 'why' we'd need it in one of their recent PowerPoint presentations. I'm still wondering what normal people would actually use it for? Show us...
 
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ss2cire said:
Very neat or interesting idea, but getting, more than likely, 3 expensive apple devices to get the full experience... IDK if that would work. I get it, I do. But I repeat, 3 expensive apple devices for the full experience... seems like it'd fail from the start. Don't get me wrong though, I think it'd be awesome!
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The watch would be the equivalent of a stylus here. Useful for added precision but definitely not essential.The obvious input method is inside-out hand tracking...so air swipes and gestures, minority-report style?
 
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I cannot wait to see that event.

What sucks is that I was on vacation this week and already have meetings planned all day long on September 15.
 
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Why must it be iPad Air ???? Why can’t it be that this year Apple introduces an iPhone Air ???
Like we have MacBook Air and MacBook Pro and we have IPad Air and iPad Pro .. I think it’s time we will see iPhone Air alongside the iPhone Pro
 
Any chance this hints at Pencil support for iPhone Pros?

Yeah yeah, I know what Steve said about the stylus. Back then, I agreed with him. Fast forward 13 years and I feel differently. The iPhone Pro line's screen sizes make Pencil support completely plausible. I currently use Field Notes, daily. Those are roughly the width of the Pro line screens. I'm in the minority that would now like the option to incorporate Pencil with my Pro.
 
After playing Alyx on full specs with Oculus rift S glasses all this AR-LiDar BS looks like a joke to me...Apple users deserve the best tech like we use to have with Jobs...On top of that, with ARM cpus and no ability to run windows we will loose all that fantastic hardware/software
 
Doc C said:
Really?
Isn't the UK standardized on the "metric" system -- meaning yyyy/mm/dd (or variants, thereof)?

It's always surprised me when Apple (a fairly US-centric company until the last few years) has put dates as anything other than mm/dd/yyyy
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We write the date in ascending order of elements so day, then month, then year. Kind of makes sense if you think about it. So the 15 September is 15/9/2020. Thats why when I saw 9.15 I initially thought it meant quarter past 9 in the morning 😂
 
SaxPlayer said:
We write the date in ascending order of elements so day, then month, then year. Kind of makes sense if you think about it. So the 15 September is 15/9/2020. Thats why when I saw 9.15 I initially thought it meant quarter past 9 in the morning 😂
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I've always reverted to yyyy/mm/dd, as I was taught in elementary school (Canada - metric). This seems to make the most sense to me from an intuitive standpoint, as it progressively narrows down in scope (I would advocate reversing the way we put addresses on envelopes for the same reason - top line would tell the postal worker or machine reader which country, therefore whether international or national, then it would be separated by state, then by city, street, etc.)

Having said that, more than a few people have told me that I often have an unusual way of looking at things.
 
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