Will the camera look inside of your ear?
iWax
iWax on … iWax off
Yes and tell you your IQ, and notify your doctor that you don’t wash in there.
Its gonna look out at the world so you can ask it questions and it can tell you about what youre looking at
Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but anyone feel like Apple is slowly having an…over-engineering problem?
The Apple Vision Pro, this… the new iPad Pros with FUCKING M4 CHIPS THAT ARE RUNNING IPADOS (???)
Like what is happening in their product development department lately?
“If you can’t reinvent the wheel, then just make the wheel more expensive.” -Tim Apple, probably
I appreciate his proper name being used 🤗
Listen, I can’t lie…my iPhone X is the best phone I’ve owned. Bought in 2017 and still going strong with promised support until 2026/27. I still have fond memories of “paying” my parents back for it (I was child labour 😀)
They need to take their talent and apply it to stuff that could actually use it, rather than rehashing stuff that is already good. An Apple clothes dryer that actually can sense dry clothes and doesn’t break easily. An apple garage door that doesn’t suck. An Apple Ebike that lasts ages and is repairable (and gets people out of their cars).
I think an Apple bidet could be neat. A toaster, too.
Did you just put “repairable” and “Apple” in the same sentence?
… I don’t know if I trust Siri to wash my asshole tbh
Something tells me you wouldn’t like the coming AssID feature either.
The bidet is under development. It is going to have cameras to confirm cleanliness using ai.
An Apple bidet which adds a colonic health section to your Health app
That would probably disrupt the brand too much.
I bought a fancy shmancy toaster and it sucks, matches my mixer but ruins my sammiches.
Let me guess. Add infrared cameras onto the Airpods, costing them very little extra, and using it as justification for an £80 price rise.
Cost as much as an iPhone
bringing “in-air” gestures to airpods
I can’t wait for stories of people brushing their hair away and the earbuds take that as a sign to raise the volume too high or something equally dumb to happen because they won’t be able to differentiate between a normal gesture meant for it and something not meant for it.
Gesture controls are cool, but what happens if they are too sensitive to movement or think gesture xyz is the same as gesture zyx?
I think the problem would be there aren’t sensitive enough and you have people walking around talking to themselves and waving their hands all around in frustration
First there were glassholes. Now we’ll have earworms?
You mean butt plugs with cameras pointing onwards into it?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $3 trillion company intends to mass-produce revamped earbuds with built-in infrared cameras by 2026, according to a new report from analyst and longtime Apple insider Ming-Chi Kuo.
The cameras could help Apple shore up its current and future augmented-reality headsets with enhanced spatial audio features, the analyst wrote.
Citing a supply-chain survey, Kuo indicated that pairing these enhanced buds with Vision Pro goggles could make Apple’s spatial-computing experience more lifelike.
For folks not interested in dropping thousands on an Apple headset, the IR cameras could offer other perks, including bringing “in-air” gestures to AirPods, per Kuo.
The analyst’s report follows an earlier story from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which noted that Apple was looking into the idea of camera-powered AirPods.
After turning its minimalistic white buds into status symbol in the iPod era, Apple has gradually made them smarter over the years, adding features such as wireless connectivity, noise cancellation, head tracking, touch controls and voice commands.
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They haven’t even thought of adding fans for the hot days. Is anyone even thinking of users at Apple?
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it. I’m sure it’s going to be taking data for mapping or some other dumb bullshit with AI to describe what’s around you because you can’t fucking use your eyes.
Apple is so bad now. Ugh.
Abandoned it? What?
They’re just stopping development of the Pro to focus on the cheaper model so not necessarily abandoned
Remove the unnecessary outwardly facing “eyeball screens”. There, cheaper.
This doesn’t say that the Vision Pro is abandoned at all.
In fact, it implies the opposite. They have paused development of a Vision Pro 2 and are instead accelerating development of their planned lower-cost headset.
Seems to me that they will be having the Vision Pro (1st gen) as their supported flagship for longer than expected.
the tech giant has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model that could ship by the end of next year
It absolutely does not. Which non-shitty version of their currently absolutely shitty headset did you think was going to be the magic one that actually works the way describe and advertise? Lolol
Why do you think the headset doesn’t work as described or advertised?
Its price is the main complaint I’ve seen.
If you haven’t read or looked into this, it feels almost wrong to just boil it down for you.
Watch one of their stupid commercials about it, then see if it works at all the way they delict it working. It does not. All it is now is a wearable monitor for desktop viewing. Things it does not do while clearly depicted as such:
- gaming
- multimedia presentations
- stream to other headsets
- have ANY sharable user positioning data (local or GPS)
- collaboration with other headset owners
- wireless anything (it’s got a heavy ass battery pack)
- literally has NONE of the apps that it had depicted it had in some presentations at initial dev announcement (Netflix, YouTube…etc), though they are usable in browser
Anyway, you get the idea. There’s more, but why bother.
I like shitting on Apple as much as the next guy but the Vision Pro is an impressive piece of gear from an engineering perspective. Unfortunately, much like pretty much all VR headsets before it, it is suffering from a lack of an ecosystem.
All Apple changed is to pivot away from a focus on bleeding edge high end hardware in this new segment and instead grow a userbase by means of a cheaper base product (likely missing one or two bells and whistles). Developers don’t like to produce apps for platforms nobody will use, even if they get thrown some money to do so, because it is a poor long term investment. So Apple’s best shot at this is to get Vision devices onto as many heads as possible.
It absolutely does. I’m not sure why you’re trying to spread misinformation, but Apple clearly hasn’t dropped VR or the Vision Pro, and your own source proves it.
I never said that. WTF are you talking about?
Yes you did. If you can’t remember your own words, you can literally just scroll up.
I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it.
