WWDC 2023 Recap: Everything Apple Announced Today

uburoibob said:
One thing that caught my attention - using VisionPro for multi-FaceTime chats shows everyone else in the chat NOT wearing the VisionPro goggles...
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I believe those people were being represented by their digital personas

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Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer

Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.
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FaceTime becomes spatial: With Apple Vision Pro, FaceTime calls take advantage of the room around the user, with everyone on the call reflected in life-size tiles, as well as Spatial Audio, so it sounds as if participants are speaking right from where they are positioned. Users wearing Vision Pro during a FaceTime call are reflected as a Persona — a digital representation of themselves created using Apple’s most advanced machine learning techniques — which reflects face and hand movements in real time. Users can do things together like watch a movie, browse photos, or collaborate on a presentation.


uburoibob said:
what the heck is it going to look like when everyone in the meeting is wearing them? Well, I can imagine what it's going to look like, but to me that just seems like a weird use for this device. I can't imagine having to look at a bunch of people wearing goggles that obscure a good amount of their faces...
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The only way you'd see people wearing goggles during a FaceTime call is if the call was being done using the camera on a Mac/iPad/iPhone which then neglects the need to put on the Vision Pro.
 
4odomi said:
I have to say, for content creators and people working on the move a lot it's a no brainer
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I can't imagine content creators wanting to place their bodies and heads in certain areas/positions to get a certain type of shot (e.g. low to the ground) when it'd be much easier to attach an iPhone to the end of a stick.

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And what about YouTube creators who do make-up, special effects, and hair styling tutorials? That's when the iPhone's front facing camera is used. Can't do that with Vision Pro.

That's why, contrary to Fred Zed's belief, I don't see the Vision Pro replacing the iPhone.
 
It was good but nothing game-changing for me. I would have loved to see the rumoured Apple Watchface store, a bigger MacBook Pro update (other than speed), that secret iPadOS/MacOS hybrid, or something bigger for Mac Gaming like hardware raytracing.
 
Apple Fan 2008 said:
Honestly, I kinda felt that too. They got rid of Dashboard in Catalina, now it's your desktop. (Tiger is also my favorite :))
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I miss the days. when MacOS new features were game-changing (ex. dashboard, spotlight, time-machine, iCloud) etc. Maybe bringing back widgets to the desktop might be useful, but we'll see.
 
East India Company said:
That has to be the most laughable commercial argument ever 🤣🤣

Of course I know what they mean but that doesn’t make it less silly.
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Similarly I laugh when they say "the fastest Apple processor ever". Every new chip *should* be faster than its predecessor. That's up there with the ambiguously semantic "world class", "best in class", or "masterclass" which mean close to nothing but are over-used by product marketing.
 
canadianreader said:
Mac Pro not being compatible with AMD or nVidia graphics cards is huge disappointment for me. The VR headset looks cool just as I expected it like virtual monitors and huge 4K TV screen. The price is just too high and battery life is laughable.
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Can you not hook it up to power as well? I didn't get to see WWDC because I had to work (planning on watching it tomorrow).
 
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