A Wired wag will “bet everything that Apple’s Vision Pro will flop,” calling it ” a rare misfire” and an “unavoidable failure.” Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer Kate Knibbs for Wired: This is not a “revolutionary” gadget, no matter how confident Tim Cook looks when he says it is. It’s a rare misfire, and a sign that Apple is losing its ability to turn tech-geek novelties into normie must-haves. It doesn’t augur the future so much as suggest that Cupertino doesn’t have a clear view forward… [A]n Apple headset, no matter how nifty its specs, is still a big honking gizmo plonked between its wearer and the rest of the world, inherently a barrier more than a conduit……

Macworld At Apple’s WWDC23, I think I saw the future. [Pausing to ponder.] Yeah, I’m pretty sure I saw the future–or at least Apple’s vision of the future of computing. On Tuesday morning, I got to try the Apple Vision Pro, the new $3,499 mixed-reality headset that was announced this week and ships next year.  I’m here to tell you the major details of my experience, but the overall impression I have is that the Vision Pro is the most impressive first-gen product I’ve seen from Apple–more impressive than the 1998 iMac, or the 2007 iPhone. And I’m fully aware that other companies have made VR headsets, but Apple does that thing that it does, where it puts its understanding…

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. An Apple “Persona” being created in FaceTime for the new Vision Pro spatial computer Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: [I]n a future visionOS update, these avatars…

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. An Apple “Persona” being created in FaceTime for the new Vision Pro spatial computer Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: [I]n a future visionOS update, these avatars…

This year's WWDC keynote was another shiny, practiced, and well-oiled presentation for a bunch of new things coming down the pipe. It's a clear sign that Apple's is probably done with the way it used to handle announcements — and that's sad.Tim Cook at WWDC 23The coronavirus pandemic changed a lot of things, but in-person events were always expected to go back to normal. For the most part that has definitely happened, but it sure looks like Apple's not quite ready to jump back on that particular bandwagon. Read more...

This year's WWDC keynote was another shiny, practiced, and well-oiled presentation for a bunch of new things coming down the pipe. It's a clear sign that Apple's is probably done with the way it used to handle announcements — and that's sad.Tim Cook at WWDC 23The coronavirus pandemic changed a lot of things, but in-person events were always expected to go back to normal. For the most part that has definitely happened, but it sure looks like Apple's not quite ready to jump back on that particular bandwagon. Read more...