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What to Expect From WWDC 2023: AR/VR Headset, 15-Inch MacBook Air, Mac Studio, iOS 17, xrOS, macOS 14 and More
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My prediction: 10% faster processor, "harder glass", speaker grill gains a line down the middle again like the series 6, slightly brighter AoD, slightly thinner (smaller battery), same battery life. Rest identical.
Again, clearly you’ve never had to calibrate a monitor for mission critical prepress operations.
Not even close to anything I said. First you falsely accused me of looking at my phone too much. Now you’re claiming I’m holding different screens to different standards. That’s also false. Stick to what I said or don’t bother replying. Straw men aren’t an argument.
In a world where AI is looking like it can actually make a computer do work for me, I wonder how VR can be used to actually get things done that isn't a gimmick. With a 360 degree canvas, using that to organize things might be useful. But will it also be disorienting? Again, would be happier with an AI solution that takes care of the problem for me. And I wont be spending $3,000 to play games mostly. It has to do something better than all the devices I could buy instead.
Looking forward to Apple Classical finally being on IPad and Macs. MacOS Diablo* maybe, from on top you can see one of the best views anywhere in the 48 states.
*The Mt. Diablo state park is one of possible names registered by Apple.
*The Mt. Diablo state park is one of possible names registered by Apple.
I didn't mean that there isn't demand for it...I wanted a new 27" iMac in 2022, but was given the Studio instead. When I say "no one is waiting" for it, I just mean that I think most have accepted the fact that Apple doesn't see a need for it in the lineup.
No, I don't. Not at all. Significant innovation requires vision. Evolving products and technologies in parallel with everyone else is not innovation. Everyone and their brother has been working on a VR headset for at least a decade. I'm sure Apple will have their own features that are cool, but it's not innovation. Creating a touchsceen mobile phone/internet browser/music player when no one was even considering such a thing was innovative. Creating a tablet that was compelling in a way no other tablet even approached was innovative.
Tech updates and new products that follow where the market is going do not equal innovation.
Your voice lulled me to sleep there for a bit, Diablo would be a good name, though I’m hoping they go with Weed one of these years just for laughs.
As a go back to school, there is no way I’ll be able to afford the headset if the rumors of it being $3000 are true but I’m still excited to see what Apple has in stores.
No new Studio, maybe processor upgrade, doubt it. New Mac Pro's. Apple buying Lucid and we now have the Apple Car.
I'm not interested in the headset at least not until we are a few gens in and the price is not insane.
Still it feels like we could be about to witness a major point in Apple's journey. It feels kinda like the build up to the iPhone or iPad...or Apple Watch.
Hopefully the headset is successful. If it is then it could totally change the world just like how iPhone transformed the way we interact with technology. Instead of everyone walking about looking down at their phones they will be walking about with headsets.
Still it feels like we could be about to witness a major point in Apple's journey. It feels kinda like the build up to the iPhone or iPad...or Apple Watch.
Hopefully the headset is successful. If it is then it could totally change the world just like how iPhone transformed the way we interact with technology. Instead of everyone walking about looking down at their phones they will be walking about with headsets.
Then why have they never provided a calibration solution for any of their monitors? I really don't think you understand prepress and film/video production. Nothing wrong with that. Just own it and stop arguing. There's no chance the headset will be able to be calibrated to the same extent that one can calibrate a high end monitor. The whole virtual monitor use case isn't going to sell headsets to the masses anyway, so who cares?
Good lord. There's a huge difference between constant eye strain caused by a screen that is millimeters away from your eyeball --- and from which you cannot look away --- and eye strain caused by a laptop or phone. The reasons are so obvious. When I'm on my laptop, I look away from the screen frequently. I glance down at the keyboard. I look around the room. Quick glances. It's basically automatic. I don't even think about it. There's no option to take a quick break when you have goggles on your face, other than to close your eyes.
The M2 Pro uses twice the power and thus generates twice the heat. It isn't going to pop into a design without active cooling - unless it is heavily throttled, at which point you just increased the price for basically nothing.
Being a year old doesn't make it run cooler.Seems like a jab at consumers since we know the M2 is a year old and next year's MBA update would probably align both the 13" and 15" to the same chip...
If they launch the 15" with the M2 they will have already aligned the 13" and 15".
Are you including the UI redesign, release of MacOS 11, a port to an entirely new CPU architecture and the ability to run iPhone/iPad apps as signs of neglect?
It's possible that the headset won't have firmware support that lets users apply more complex calibrations. But being a VR headset doesn't really have any bearing on whether or not Apple chooses to support that capability.
That said, there would be some issues with using a VR headset as a mastering monitor, primarily that the lenses will have internal reflections that introduce glare, which lowers contrast.
The physical distance of the screen is irrelevant.
That's pretty much a description of watching a movie at the theater.
I'd expect a 15" M2 Air to be a 15" version of the 13" M2 Air, just like the 16" pro is a 16" version of the 14" Pro.
Slightly higher CPU performance because of more surface area for passive cooling, more battery, graphics performance takes a hit because of the larger screen, possibly better sound because of more speaker space.
I'd literally expect it to be the same panel tech, cut to a different size.
Not just less risky; they can fit a lot more content in via editing. We already see things like AI assistive tech and pro apps on the iPad coming out in the weeks before because they know they won't have enough time.
Tim Cook has been an executive at Apple since 1998.