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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
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2024 is changing the way we look at the world- literally. With the Apple Vision Pro, upcoming Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin, we're seeing a whole slew of new devices that are challenging our perceptions of what tech can be and do. But will it all work? Is this a revolutionary time or just some cooky experiments?
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0:00 Intro
1:56 The innovative new trends for 2024
2:56 Tech used to be boring
3:45 Vision Pro is a HUGE gamble
4:44 Techies are often wrong!
5:45 Humane AI Pin is weird
7:45 Rabbit R1 is more focused
8:59 Can Vision Pro work?
10:19 2024 tech is risky (that's good)
11:14 A lesson from the past
12:08 A thought for the future
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Is this an iPhone moment or a Google Glass moment? 🤔
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iPhone moment for sure!
I think it's an Apple Vision Pro announcement. (and no not being sarcastic)
Vision Pro is the Xbox One and the Quest 3 is the PS2. Edit: actually even better Vision Pro is the Wii U and the Quest 3 the Wii.
People owned and wanted Portable music players, the iPod moment ! People owned and wanted Mobile phones, the "iPhone Moment" Corporations like Meta and MS want VR headsets, people don't want to live their life in a hot sweaty pair of eye mufflers, its therefore Not an "iPhone moment". Apple jumped the gun listening to lesser rivals and THEIR "vision" of the future, instead of observing consumer trends and basic ergonomic design principle's
Viewers may not be aware of how radically that gray PowerBook 1xx series changed all laptops. Until that time, laptops had the keyboard up front because PCs were still built for text-based MS-DOS, so if you used Wndows you had to buy and plug in a mouse or trackball. But Mac OS required a pointing device, so Apple pushed the keyboard to the back and put a built-in pointing device up front. A third of a century later, almost all laptops still follow that basic design pioneered by the Apple PowerBook 1xx.
Another advanced PowerBook feature (at the time) was that I could plug in a color monitor and use two screens at once. That was rare back then, for a laptop.
To be fair, I would still take the trackpoint over the PowerBook trackball 😉. I still absolutely love my 68k PowerBook collection, though. Too bad I don't have a monitor and cables for external display color output.
Finally! An “Italian” gold chain! Next is the track suit! For-get-about-it! 😂
I really wish people looked philosophically at what corporations are doing with their data (that data pretty much being entire lives) and got more into privacy-respecting tech instead of looking for the next gimmick said corporations can provide... but we all know that's not happening. Problem is, you cannot market actual privacy and freedom.
*Tin Foil hit bitching ensues*
@@ArthropodSpidey I'd love to write a hit using only tin foil, but my sampling game isn't that great.
OpenAI is non-profit so they are quite safe, not sure about Google though
I see a big problem with all AI systems that are controlled primarily or only with voice. Nobody wants that. I see that in everyday life, at least here in Austria, perhaps for privacy reasons hardly anyone uses the phone anymore. Nobody has their smartphone on loud on the subway. You don't hear any ringtones. At least in public you don't want that. When you talk, it's in a group in a coffee shop or in the park. This is exactly how it will not be accepted at work. Which is why I'm sure that little attention is paid to all sorts of voice assistants in general.
I almost never talk to my AI and I've been useing Microsofts for a year now.
I will talk to my Rabbit R1 when it arrives but only because I’ll be using it for business, I’m going to train it to file away my daily paperwork onto my home server and it will be quick and easy just to ask it to take a picture and file it away. I’m sure I’ll find other business uses for it and get more comfortable using voice after a while of using it for something that’s actually useful.
Well, I agree with you on a basic level, I think this is one of those comments that we will look back on years later, and say “well in that context of what we knew, nobody wanted that. But the way that Apple (or whoever)took it, we could never have seen how great that would be!”
@@Epicgamer_Mac we had voice communication but then went to SMS. Privacy not from an AI POV but privacy from a "I don't want everyone in public knowing my business as I speak it out loud".
I used mine for only one week, because of excitement. Never used it since. 2yrs.
these AI devices will become novelties once phone companies better integrate AI in their operating systems
but they may be the forcing function to accelerate that happening
to do what with it?
You’re wrong. MSFT requires 16G DRAM & 40 TOPs NPU as a minimum to be an AI PC. Phones would need to 3x their memory & 3x their NPU to compete with AI PCs!
Plenty of phones already have 24gb of ram.. If Apple can pull the same "unified memory" trick they're pulling with their M series of chips, and have the whole system (GPU and NPU included) share that high bandwidth memory, powerful models could be run quickly and locally, even on handheld devices.@@tringuyen7519
@@tringuyen7519, Gemini is now integrated with my Google Pixel 8 Pro's operating system. It is AMAZING!
I just realized I was a subscriber when you had about 5,000. Crazy.. your early videos were zero facial hair that’s how I remember them. And, your microphone was pretty bad.
You’ve grown into one of my favorites. And you really love the tech like I do that’s why it’s so fun.. you spend the money so we can do it vicariously through you.. super cool!
You’re turning into family guy Persian cartoon with that medallion.
The R1 rabbit is giving me beeper vibes 😅
Big issue: voice isn’t the best way. For my blind aunt, her Google home setup was life changing, but for me, a sighted person, I’d rather just use my phone or computer (pretty much every time.)
The issue isn't really touchscreen typing, it's the fact that it's a small keyboard regardless.
yes, the keyboards on the pre-iPhone X models were cramped, i never had a 6-8plus so i can't say how that was but i still use an iPhone X as a secondary phone and the typing experience on it is much better and the battery life is still quite good but nothing will beat typing on a physical keyboard which is why i have kept my android blackberry
When the iPhone first came out, phones had tiny physical keyboards. Or they didn't have keyboards at all and if you wanted to send a text, you had to use the number pad. To type a C you pressed the "2" key three times. But some people got really good at that. They could send long messages without looking at their thumbs.
For them, a non-tactile screen was never going to be as good as a physical keyboard with raised dots on some keys so your thumbs could find their "home" position.
@@kevinbailey8827 when the iPhone came out the BlackBerry 88xx series was the current flagship with blackberry it had a huge keyboard, the Curve and Pearl series were more for consumers, at the time I personally had a Motorola Q9h and it had a very wide keyboard layout that I enjoyed very much. Touch screen typing was very unpleasant for me on all the iPhones until the iPhone X and newer
what happens when you tell AI to "fuck off!" Do you think it will be vindictive? Try it with Siri. Great fun. Cheers
Bing Actually will be mad at you if you treat disrespectfully multiple times
(Someone on Reddit has been banned for insulting bing)
ChatGPT only apologises and says it’s not So kind to say
yes, interesting. When AI takes over it may have other solutions. Now the pronoun question is an interesting one. What will be their preference! And what are the consequences of wrong speak? Welcome to the future. Cheers@@ms1-Alex
When the iPhone first came out, I was so happy that a phone was compatible with the Apple computer I was using at the time.
Great video! Thanks 🙏🏽
the Humane AI thing having its own separate phone number is BOLD. the Rabbit R1 being a companion to your smartphone, rather than a replacement: i see being a lot more popular.
I was in that first 1000 subscribers. I was searching on RUclips for someone to convince me to determine whether I should get an iPad Pro, and for some reason, a parody video from you showed up. I was hooked ever since. I do miss your videos where you clean up an old MBP and get it working again.
Did you see the video where he complained about the airpods just being earpods with the wires cut off?
@@colt5189 No I didn't. That's too funny.
Having devices that can be talked to and respond to me has been massive improvement for me. Some of my disabilities make it impossible to some tasks done by keyboard and mouse, so when I can talk to my computer and get the result that I need that is awesome. Voice assistances has made a massive difference, in my life and I’m hoping that they won’t drop them all together. I just wish they could do more.
Hopefully the improvements of AI and the vision goggles will just make more possibilities available with computers .
Seeing super monkey ball in that brief appo store ad unlocked some serious nostalgia for me 🥰
Great video! Like Jon Prosser, I find that your videos have often been getting very philosophical and in-depth compared to just saying opinions, and then unboxing a product. Of course, there’s a time and place for videos like that too (yours are always great), but it’s great that you are able to step back and look at things from a point of view such as this video. Great job.
I love that laptop comparison
I feel the tech fatigue for sure. I’ve had every iPhone since 4 EXCEPT I’ve kept my 13 pro since now. It’s just too good 👍
The vision pro is their most expensive model with new tech. Other models with lower price points will be watered down versions for the masses.
Other models won't come for at least a year, I think, and they will take advantage of lessons learned with the Vision Pro. I expect in a couple of years, you'll be able to buy an Apple Vision headset for half the price that's lighter than the Vision Pro and also has all the features plus others that the one I'm buying doesn't have. Maybe a four-hour battery!
Then I think there might be a new version of the Vision Pro that has still more cutting edge features. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to take not just "spatial video" (which seems to be Apple's name for stereoscopic video), but "immersive video" (Apple's name for 3D VR 180). Since they're basically giving you an immersive live feed of your surroundings, it should be possible to capture that view to a file and replay it. Watching a replay would probably induce nausea, because tiny head movements while recording would be captured and the result would jump around sickeningly. Apple could probably stabilize the video, losing a bit of information on the sides, but the field of view is going to be far less than 180, so Apple might need to add more cameras to future Vision Pro units (assuming they're even thinking along these lines).
@@kevinbailey8827other models currently exists and are way cheaper but just a bit less good.
"There's even rumors of Apple revamping Siri with AI."
Lol. Siri working properly is pure science fiction. I think we'll see teleportation first.
Small presentation advice on the intro - the wood table is a barrier; but if you must use it, keep both hands above it. It’s better after the intro.
youre into "savoir-vivre"???lol.
I wrote in the chat room in 2002 that the floppy disc would be be discontinued,
I Got so much hate for it,
a lot of People don't like change
Rabbit R1 looks like straight from fisher-price lol.
Love the mafia vibe 😅
I took the plunge and put an order on Rabbit R1 a couple of weeks ago. I hope their next iteration is one with a flip design, and gives us a bigger screen in the process.
Nice job Luke. Thoughtful perspective, informative and interesting. Effective use of those legacy portables.
I remember wanting the original iPhone when it came out only to realize it couldn't even record videos, i do think the reactions from those tech reviewers were written from a point of hysteria, there was definitely a market for touchscreens, i had the LG Prada in 2007 and it was released before the iPhone and was quite enjoyable but i also had a physical keyboard phone because i have always found it faster and less likely to commit typos. It took years for me to get used to typing consistently on touchscreens and it was only with the bigger/wider iphones that it became easier for me, I got the iPhone 12 Pro 3 years ago and thought it was incredible even for typing and that's from a die hard physical keyboard user. I'm not much into AI/VR stuff but i can see it's potential especially in the gaming world
Smart speakers don't do anything a smartphone can do..but they are hugely popular.
For those that are bored with the load-an-app centric system we have had since we could connect a cassette player to a C64, having a large action model is finally something interesting and different.
Luke is chomping at the bit for his VP.
I don’t get these A devices because they can all be built into an app, which someone has already done with the rabbit
oooh nice track shot in the beginning!
I remember the first portable I used (from work). It had a very liquid lcd display and the keyboard pulled down from the front. It was thick and rested on the bottom edge of the case. I wish I knew what model that beast was. We had a modem that needed connected that had a bigger footprint than the computer.
The Vision Pro is not AR though, it's VR. AR is stuff projected into the real world and though I haven't used it, I doubt the Vision Pro is going to be convincing. The initial presentation is was pretty impressive with all of the different camera angles and whatnot but that is very different than a first-person view.
I'm interested to see where it's going, but it seems like a solution looking for a problem right now. What are the use cases? If you're going to wall yourself off in one, you might as well just stay at home and work there, why go to the office where the primary benefit is communicating with coworkers?
100 years or so ago there was a philosopher and smart man named Jacques Elul. He grew up in Germany as an educated man in philosophy during the rise of Hitler. Watching German propaganda for World War Two inspired his perspective of society.
He had watched his father get taken, and ran when the Nazis came after his girlfriend. At the border of German control in Boudreaux he helped smuggle Jews out. He started to think about government and change. What he came to label, over the sentry of watching technology boom was the theme of Technique. Technique being defined as a process or skill, or training that makes you more skilled, better, and (most importantly) Efficient.
The theme of technique was seen historically in how we farm, and in German propaganda for Hitler. with technology, the car was a form of technique that aimed to make transportation more efficient, and less time consuming. Gas and nuclear weaponry made killing more efficient. The phone and internet, was an example of technological communications becoming more efficient. Factories, the most obvious, started automating what the common worker would do in the name of efficiency. He saw technique as the relationship between technology and society. He also saw it as a downfall of society as law also succumbed to technique. A government system built on technique made the system more important than the individual. Thematically and philosophically he saw the desacralize(ing) of the sacred that was leading to this. A lot of that came from his Christian perspective.
I think that we can continue to look at technology through this lens. Its goal uncapped is to make our living as efficient as possible. Sometimes that includes our thoughts and speach as well. ( fun aside: George Orwell in 1984, pourpose shows speach becoming so efficient that it narrowed thinking thinking- but my point is less dystopian) Vision Pro should make us ask if it makes us more efficient. Could it make media watching more efficient? How would that affect us? These AI mobile clips, what type of efficiency and technique does it bring to bridge the gap between technology and society? We should be asking these types of questions when it comes to innovative technology.
In any case, this Jacques Elul guy is pretty interesting, a lot of the technological predictions and societal shifts that have happened as he predicted through this observation of Technique. I believe he is a a voice that is worth looking into. He also was against secularizing society because of how it made things less sacred. I believe in his book New Demons, talks about secular humanism and its flaws, vs the Christian worldview of recognizing the core of the problem. Often times philosophers and students refer to him as “Prophet in the technological wilderness”
Worthwhile and fascinating guy. Spend some wikedapedia time on him and his analysis of society. So much of his concern for technology predicts what we think and desire from technology and innovation.
Anyway thanks for reading my nerd rant 🤓
Edits: grammar and flow
I find the comparison between the first and second laptops amazing. And in three years. WOW!
For those pocket AI "assistants"...... can't the same thing be done in an app? Seems like the raw processing power, better connectivity, battery life and a full-blown display makes downloading it to an iphone 14 or 15 a no-brainer. BTW, easier to upgrade if its an app.......
i really still dont understand why they got rid of the touchbar entirely. i loved it. they could have added function keys below it and been fine
You know what?! How Apple should revive the Touchbar as in a redesigned Magic Keyboard, where the Touchbar is built in to it.
That would be cool as hell!
You’re wrong. It was terrible. Good riddance
Me too bro
@@zayyirthomas789why? I've never used the touchbar on my m1 MacBook pro (except function button and control volume/brightness which can do faster with button)
@@zayyirthomas789that would actually be pretty cool. $99 for the regular Magic Keyboard, $150 for the numeric keypad, $200 for the black with numeric keypad, and $225 for the touchbar.
The thing about the RabbitR1 as a product is that it really isn't the hardware that's of note. Apple/Google/Samsung/etc. can just make their own implementations of the same idea and integrate it within their phones and ecosystems. The Rabbit just becomes obsolete at that point
The trackball in front of the keyboard in the middle was an Apple innovation as far as I'm aware and it was a big reason why the Powerbook so much better than the competing products. With that one change, Apple was able to make the laptop much more compact and more egonomical at the same time. It definitely fixed my carpal tunnel syndrome back then.
I'm pretty sure Apple will bring AI to all their devices (M2 and upwards at least) and it may well be a gamechanger for the Vision Pro too (and not just using voice - imagine the AI figuring out what you are doing and popping a box somewhere on the screen that allows you to tell it to autocomplete whatever task you started just by looking at it and snipping your fingers together).
I think the Vision Pro needs design revisions to put part of the weight behind the user's head and get rid of any non-essentials (the front display and glass). VR as a whole could use some killer apps.
like always a very good video. ❤
As a commercial FPV drone pilot, I am no stranger to goggle display headsets. I have been using them for 8 years now. The biggest problem with the Vision Pro, is the weight. People are definitely going to complain about the weight. The FPV market has been striving for the smallest, lightweight goggles possible. The Vision Pro is definitely neat, but waaay heavier and larger than any mainstream FPV goggle. People just aren’t going to want to use them for any long period of time. Maybe at first, but the newness WILL wear off. This is definitely just a stepping stone product. People will also complain about eye strain and probably dizziness. All the being said, I’m definitely interested in what Apple was able to create. On a side note…People wearing these things are creepy as hell looking. (Many scared babies coming soon!)
My problem with Vision Pro is that there doesn't seem to be any killer app at launch. All it does is let you browse safari, FaceTime, and watch videos, provided those videos are saved in your Photos App or found on Apple TV+. In other words, it's a smart phone strapped to your face that costs $3500. I'm sure it will get better over time, but every other new category that Apple has ventured into always had that special something at launch. AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, iPod, they all had something inherent to the hardware that your average Joe would appreciate, that special something would channel you in to using the big killer app, and the killer app would be something that other devices simply didn't do as well. Vision Pro just doesn't have that IMO. Average Joe doesn't want a hunk of metal and glass strapped to his face with a battery pack in his pocket. If there was some huge VR AAA game exclusive to it, then maybe a few would jump in, but no one wants to go through the hassle just to browse safari when they could pull their iPhone or MacBook out and do the same thing, but quicker.
iPad didn't have anything special at launch. It was just a big iPhone, without the phone. The killer app was that it was bigger. You could do things on it that the iPhone made you want to do, but the iPhone's small screen made difficult. Critics of the iPad when it as announced and when it was new didn't acknowledge that a big iPhone was something that people wanted. The average Joe didn't want to lug around a tablet that weighed about as much as...well as a Vision Pro. Many early reviews mentioned the weight, so you know the weight was going to be a huge factor in the failure of the iPad.
The iPhone itself was criticized by people who didn't see its potential. The average Joe wanted physical buttons. See the video above.
The killer app for Vision Pro is spatial computing. You may not see that potential, but a lot of us do see it. Probably few if any of us see the full potential, though, because it will come about based on what we actually use it for and what we say we'd like to use it for in the future.
It's a $3500 iPhone strapped to your face. A crazy enhanced iPhone capable of showing you Avatar 2 in full 3D on a 100 foot screen, and capable of being controlled using your eyes and your hands resting comfortably in your lap. An iPhone capable of turning your entire surroundings into a digital workspace.
I don't know if you've ever actually strapped a $1000 iPhone to your face. I have. It has its uses, but it doesn't give nearly the experience or functionality that the Vision Pro promises.
I had a PowerBook 145 and the original iPhone, so I know what you're talking about. I don't need the Vision Pro now, but I suspect I will need one, or at least really want one, in the near future.
It took me about five years before I bought any sort of mobile phone, and then I only really used it to get contract work. I loved the idea of owning an iPhone, but again it took me five years before I bought a second hand one . I still use it as a clock today. I have an iPhone11 but only so I can develop my SiWriter quinkey one hand typing app * which now works on any touch screen. I spend all my time on a laptop, M1, developing, watching stuff, making podcasts... A small phone can't offer me these facilities = too small. An iPad needs a case before I could use it, and that basically makes it a laptop with a touchscreen . Come on Apple, make one! The Apple headset looks fun, but I'll find a use for it in five years. May be my SiWriter ( Microwriter codes ) could provide text entry with no need to see the keyboard. Just a thought.
Great insights!
I think very light compact ar glasses with a lot of the apple vision pro features and much more advanced Ai capabilities is where we will land. I think AR/VR, spatial computing, whatever will be the way we help ai see the world the way we see, and provide it context for the things we want, and it provides an interface and an UI for us to communicate with each other in real time, in the real world. Big concepts being approached in the next 5-10 years
video on Mac Pro?!!!
Luke, what are the two Monitors in the background of your video?
I can see an Apple Non-Pro Vision headset next year along with an updated Vision Pro
I will be trying the Rabbit R1
As someone in my 40’s and hearing that the Vision Pro is heavy. I think I’ll wait for a lighter version of this. The price doesn’t throw me off. comfort is everything if I’m doing video editing with it.
It’s the punting system that is amazing and futuristic. It will change the way we work with productivity apps. Add AI like GPT and Jarvis is approaching fast
Competition is one of the things that helps move technology forward. PhD Robert Metcalfe "The Father of Ethernet" (inside joke) when talking about technology years. He often told me..."The amount of change in our industry (computer/local area networks) in six months is equal to a decade in any other industry".
This is why when things do not seem to move forward as fast as it has in the past that pundits feel like technology is standing still. Thing that keeps moving technology is competition, and innovation.
Love your videos and agree that we're finally at a breakthrough point after years of minor updates.
I pre-ordered the Rabbit R1. I consider it in the category of the Vision Pro. It's essentially the beta for what we'll be using in 2-5 years. Once Apple cracks LAM, LLM, AR and VR, it's going to be a world changer
That slow pan intro 🔥🔥🔥
Nice analysis and
nice new outfit 🎉☺️
Luke, I got a video idea: Put an Intel Optane M.2 SSD in an Intel Macbook as bootdrive (with adapter). I ran Sonoma Opencore from a 64GB Optane on 2013 Macbook Pro 16GB RAM, and it's superresponsive. (If you want extra storage, you can put a 1TB SD card and use either RAM or the Optane as cache)
I need that wallpaper Luke!
Man, such a fantastic essay of this time we are in. So well said. You are truly a master of this medium of communication Luke. Well done.
Bard is said to be coming soon to Pixel phones, as a replacement for Google Assistant, but you can revert to the standard one, if you want.
"There's even rumours that Apple is revamping Siri to take advantage of AI."
This is a curious statement. Surely, Siri is already an AI application. There have been significant development in AI since Siri's release, but Siri is still an AI application. Of course, Apple is experimenting with training large language models and Siri is one of the most obvious application to be affected by it.
I laughed so hard at that comment. We forgot that Siri WAS AI. It's so behind that people don't even consider it AI. I think Apple better revamp siri or it may as well be replaced altogether.
When Apple gets AI + Siri figured out it will end up being the best and people won't even remember ChatGPT or use the term AI, they'll just call it Siri or whatever the Apple name is because they have all the devices in place to be successful with it. Imagine with an effective AI/Voice assistant which Vision Pro will likely need how much more valuable things like HomePod will be? A celular Apple Watch will be able to more effectively replace carrying a iPhone. Their AI will immediately get incorporated in to every OS and get used by millions of people. While I don't think VisionPro is that important of a device itself yet, the things that it will force Apple to innovate will impact all of their tech.
Start of a great conversation. The Vision Pro will evolve as it does familiar things. The other devices will die.
Now that’s a spicy basil
Main things for me is getting away from the confinments of the laptop screen. What about screenless keyboard that connects to your Apple Vision Pro and I can do work anywhere having mulitple monitors at my disposal. I am on an M1 Air and the 13" is driving me nuts - even 16" wouldn't be enough for me but 3 displays in VR, YES PLEASE
Features are being removed and its called innovation. Repairability its being destroyed and its "for your saftey". Prices are out of control and for no actual reason. Tech is boring now.
Best one was when the media said the iPhone will fail because it “had no keyboard & too expensive “ ! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Very informative video, I loved it ❤
12:08 oh wow. Do they still boot up? 😯
One of your best yet!
I wouldn’t say technology has been stagnant for the past 10 years
On the day the Apple Vision Pro pre-orders started, I went looking for comments about the iPad when it was released, to show how negative comments about new Apple Products are the norm. I got distracted by an article that was published on the same day in 2014 that said with the latest (at the time) version of the iPad, Apple had basically perfected the tablet. It was lighter, faster, and had a higher resolution than the first one, and none of the competitors had come close to unseating it in that space.
The article ended with a prediction that in ten years, iPads would have a lot of incremental improvements, but in terms of form and function they would be the same.
great video, thanks
The natural sleeping system is the ground outside no one needs a water heated / cooled bed everyone is soft sleeping on a cushion already.
It’s not a question about what tech (AI) can do for us. More, a question of how much more we need to be productive (work) to not be marginalized by it.
As computers entered the workplaces, we were told to “stay relevant” to not lose out. We did. We got more productive, but the idea of saving time died as we worked more, not less. We worked more to grow the economy, but forgetting to ask what part of the economy we were “growing”.
Are we still forgetting to ask who will benefit financially from this tech paradigm shift? Will we believe that connecting to AR / AI is better than relating to each other, just as we experience that gen 1 SoMe didn’t help much? More individualistic and more lonely, work harder and it’ll be sooo sweet?
I don’t think so anymore. Harsh from me, a guy with 40 years in IT and creative use of tech…
We know what we want. I believe that a device capable of displaying real 3D images could be a game changer. Additionally, an AI system that can communicate with you like the one in the movie "Her", as well as AI robots that can function as personal assistants, clean your home and organize your life, would be incredibly helpful. And lastly, flying cars that are safe and as easy to use as the car you are currently driving would be a great innovation.
I laughed when he said ai and vr would be innovative! :D people work on both for decades!
Yes, those things are new on the market, but that does not make them innovative whatsoever.
I still don't like the none tactile touchscreen phone but Vision Pro would be the first device that changes that
The biggest hurdle of using Apple Visual Pro is how we train ourselves and make it a habit to use the head-worn computer to replace the computer on the desk or on our lap. I am using my computer while having my dinner side by side and I think I can't do it while wearing the Visual Pro. Rumors suggested that the first shipment of the Visual Pro of 180,000 has sold out, but one would ask how many of Visual Pro head sets sold or distributed would become a sufficient mass for software developers to specially design software for this minority set of users. There may be more than 2 billion iOS devices sold and eco system has made Apple an invincible company but the Visual Pro $3500 price tag may take Apple forever to reach a meaningful quantity to justify the software development cost. If Apple can't succeed in making PC Game to make Mac a popular platform for gaming, I am worried that Apple would face the same headwind in the spatial computer software.
Luke, remote collaboration will be the killer app for Apple Vision Pro. Once Zoom (or maybe a competitor) engages and makes an AVP native zoom app that does more than FaceTime video windows in VR, things will take off.
Imagine multiple AVP users sharing a virtual room where they can all simultaneously “touch” and manipulate virtual 3D objects… models on a table, whiteboards, etc. Instead of floating video windows of avatars imagine better looking 3D avatars sharing a room, even just a conference room, together where participants can feel like they’re really there looking around at their peers seeing their body language etc.
It will finally make the type of collaboration people think can only happen IRL more possible remotely.
It will get closer to the concept of a hollow deck.
It will contribute to the trend that makes physical shared offices (and all the time and expenses of building them, commuting to them, etc) gradually obsolete.
While $3500 seems expensive for the Gee whiz functionality Apple is now showing, just like iPhone, people are looking at AVP with blinders on right now just like they did iPhone when it first came out. Ultimately, the killer app for iPhone and its ilk was to largely replace the need to use a PC most of the time and put the power of a PC and more in your pocket to have with you wherever you go, not just making a phone call with a fancy touchscreen.
AVP will be about making it possible to truly and realistically collaborate with and “be” with other people no matter where they are physically located.
As an add on, think of media consuming activities we like to do with other people together, like say watching a movie or going to a concert, etc. With 2 or more users on AVP linked together, you could be sitting next to each other in a virtual theatre sharing the experience of wasting a movie together for example.
Apple Vision Pro is built for the future. All the technology inside is part a longer grander vision. I wonder when you strap on the headset you will be training dexterity and facial expressions for the Apple Robot 1 😮
Hi Luke, like you I’ve been trying to understand the “Pro” wrt Vision Pro. Pro products are, IMHO, primarily designed for professionals who do this for a living. So I’m guessing that Vision Pro is a seed product for people who work in the graphics space for them to use to develop the applications for “Apple Vision”, the next generation, which we will use. These will be the holographic FaceTime, the realtor house tour, the search engine that takes you to the experience instead of giving you just still images and words, Past Life where you can stand on the sidewalk and see the house you grew up in, folks and old neighbors, plus the givens like immersive movies, sims, etc…
Apple doesn't use "Pro" that way consistently. Your mind may add the 'fessional", but what's professional about the iPhone 15 Pro Max? Do you have to listen for a living to use the AirPods Pro? They have active noise cancelation, which is quite useful when I take my kids to the indoor waterpark. Apple has never said the Pro means Professional. I think it's just code for "top of the line". I have an iPad Pro, because I like that it has Face ID, and I like the way it looks, and the screen has higher specs. This year's iPad Pro is rumored to have an OLED screen. People will buy it for that, and Apple won't check their credentials, only their credit. I won't buy it because I indulged in an iPad Pro some time back, and that one still works for me.
Vision Pro IS a seed product, and developers wanting to make apps for it WILL get them (if they can). But also ordinary people will get them (if they can). And ordinary people will enjoy the apps that the developers produce.
Aye you know what?!! A good idea for example for the Apple vision Pro is, Apple Maps . Looking at you route in 3D like in Google Maps, either for fun or genuinely looking up a route before you drive there yourself. Or even a online Apple store experience where in the Vision Pro, you’re actually in the Apple store, when browsing items and or making a purchase.
That would be cool as hell!
I think mimicking an actual store would be cool at first, but it would get old fast. Sometimes physical stores are designed with big-bulky things on tables and small, regularly shaped things on shelves somewhere else. Big things don't fit on the shelves. Small things would clutter the table and distract from those big things.
A digital store takes you to the big thing you search for, but he little things that might be accessories for the big thing are presented for you helpfully.
As for maps, it doesn't appear that the Vision Pro will have an enhanced version of Apple Maps ready to go at launch. I hope to heck they're working on it, and I hope Google is working on a Vision Pro version of Google Earth. Maybe this summer we'll get some good news in Vision OS 2.0.
Having a powerful battery, along with a strong bluetooth and wifi antenna pressed against our skulls - not to mention the screen being an inch from our eyes, just doesn't sound healthy. Kind of like how an iPhone's safety disclaimer tells us not to place the phone next to our heads.
Until AI can be used on a device to control the device and have it do things you normally do for you, it’s not going to take off. AI needs to replace google, RUclips search, sorting email, creating media, and so on. It has to replace things like the smart phone did. Not add to the junk we buy.
I preordered the Rabbit r1 because I like the quirk factor. I don't really think it will be a game changer but I think it'll have a very specific use case for myself in that it will allow me to dictate notes and not need a proprietary note taking app that might cease to exist down the road. Perhaps it could use AI to write a script using those notes or suggest certain key ideas that I should focus on more for a video to increase engagement. Like you said - it will take some time for the public to get their fair share on it and develop some use cases that the developers never even thought of. I remember when the iPhone first came out and Steve was so adamant that it didn't need an app store. It wasn't until it was jail broken and people started writing their own apps that he changed his mind. I could see the very same thing happen with the Vision. It's just that the introductory price could limit the initial audience.
Hey Luke...yeah, the pin is stupid. The R1 is genius...I ordered one, especially as it has no sub costs. I plan to use it as an AI assistant, not to replace any existing tech.
When you facetime your friends and they're floating about in your living room, what do they see your face as?
They see your "persona", which is a digital scan of your face and a representation of your torso. The camera records your eyes and your mouth, so if you smile or talk your persona does, too. You can even gesture with your hands. It will probably look creepy. I can't wait to try it out. Apple has been careful about showing how personas will look, but in one week RUclips will be flooded with videos of them.
I think this shows the two paths for innovation. I agree the Vision Pro is not a mobile product and its path is to compete in a new productivity/at home world of vr with either heavy ar like putting full interactive models on the table or ar as almost like a background to put your desktop apps on top of. I mean as a developer if I can recline back in a lazy boy and shut the world out for a couple hour of focused coding time but get a notification when someone walks in and wants my attention, that's a pretty cool workflow. The other path is the ai/mobile without screens where you don't have a phone. Apple is close here with AirPods and Apple Watch, and I'd love to see the apple glass type product that I think for 1st gen is an apple take on the ray ban smart glasses. Just sun/regular glasses with some cameras in the frames and it'd be cool if apple could work their audio magic in the bone conduction space. If the idea is to have it paired to an Apple Watch, you don't need to get into the more lighter ar in the first gen because you get a little bit of screen to show notifications or pop up some info like the pin does with it's laser display. If you put the double camera like the ray bans, that should get you the depth for spatial video that you can take on your glasses out and about and then come home and rewatch on your Vision Pro
So basically, “it’s hard to predict the future”, except influencers need to generate videos.
The original 1984 Mac was introduced at $2495. If adjusted for inflation, that is $7300 in 2024 dollars. So the first Vision Pro only costs about 1/2 the price of the first Mac, which continues to thrive after 40 years.
In 1982 I was 17, and I decided the one thing I wanted was a video camera. My dad helped me buy it, and I paid him most of my afterschool earnings (maybe $150 a month) until I paid him back. The camera cost $1000, and for $1000 it was useless, because I also had to buy a VCR to plug it into. The portable Beta VCR also cost $1000. What made it portable was the handle and the shoulder strap. The VCR weighed 22 pounds. They got it down to that weight by having the tuner and power supply separate. When not connected to power, I got about 45 minutes of use from the battery. My dad rigged up a motorcycle battery to use that gave me more time. Oh and the camera itself weighed 10 pounds.
We weren't exactly rich, but the video camera was my priority. I didn't have a car until five years later, and I didn't have my own stereo system like many of my friends had. I think there will be people who want Apple Vision Pro enough to give up Starbucks, and maybe cut their own hair, and keep using their old iPad for another year or two before upgrading. And cancel their Netflix account since they won't have a good way to watch Netflix on Apple Vision anyway.
Using a touch screens prior to the iphone was a miserable experience. I think a lot peoples views were coloured by this before trying it. It was also affordable at the time of release.
The Ai devices would have been better as an app on apple watch, vision pro is public beta developer device for first generation
Google Glass moment. I only believe in vision pro, if they lowered the price. Which I know they will, I am certain Vision Pro will reduce in price quickly as the factory process advances and people start buying.
There was a song about something happening here…
as of right now, I am not seeing any use case for rabbit AI or Vision pro. But that might change, in the same way as did the first to second generation Laptop from Apple. Vision Pro needs less weight and more plausible apps and all day battery life. This will bring costs down and devices sold up dramatically.
Great video! I’m excited for the future now… I’m most compelled by the Vision Pro, because it can create as well as consume media… so I’m excited to see what people create. The AI predictive assistant thing… I don’t know, not living for it now… but I’m interested to watch its evolution.
6:52 Those Ai devices can help blind people