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Comment Re: Visionary (Score 1) 111

I agree. But the major question is, has he fundamentally changed ideologically? Or is he manipulating voters with a long term vision to continue carrying out great achievements that are good for society?

One must acknowledge that there has been some bad with the good. Disturbing the view of the night sky globally. Is that just temporary or forever? Can technology fix that? Either way, has he changed ideologically since getting entangled in politics?

Comment Re: Come on, let's hear it (Score 1) 111

Does anyone have a viable motive for his entanglement in British, German, Italian, and USA politics? What is his agenda? Why does he even need to get involved with politics? All I can see is that he has tried to bore tunnels and has been road blocked. If the tunnel machines are ready, I imagine he will want to deploy hundreds or thousands of them and governments of any party will get in the way. So he is going to seize small and inherently weak parties and reshape them i.e. manipulate voters into drastically different ideologies. This is pure speculation and I cant identify other explanations for his political ruckus.

Comment Re: Both can be true (Score 1) 111

Comparing Musk to Jobs and Wozniak shows that you have an oversimplified understanding of all three men. Extremely different people whose only similarities are that they all changed the world with technology. But in terms of personality, leadership style, and life experience they are all very different from each other.

Comment Re: Cinephile is a killer app (Score 1) 148

I should add that I do use it as a laptop screen adequately for brief periods, maybe 45 minutes. But it doesnâ(TM)t really make sense to me to use it rhat way when the laptop is already sitting in my lap.

  The advantage is that you can do things on your laptop without removing the AVP. That eliminates the need to swap devices. â"e.g., âContinuityâ(TM). But itâ(TM)s not really my go to laptop external display⦠Immersed app might change that if I can have 5 screens on my MacBook. That would be cool. They say itâ(TM)s been submitted to the App Store⦠so itâ(TM)s available for a subscription soon.

Comment Re: Cinephile is a killer app (Score 1) 148

This is just my experience. If your vision is perfect, you might experience it differently.

Maybe one issue is generation loss. You take the output of the laptop and map it to a plane in a 3D environment, then you manipulate that plane in a sphere, then you distort the entire thing to correct for optical issues with the compound lenses, then you donâ(TM)t have the same quality as the original laptop output.

But thereâ(TM)s probably a multi-factor solution involving all of the above components and maybe software can sharpen things with the VR equivalent of Microsoft ClearView (invented by Steve Wozniak for the Apple II). So thereâ(TM)s a chance Apple can tighten up Vision OS and make it viable on this generation of AVP. Also, maybe itâ(TM)s just my eyes and yours are better? Will you use the Zeiss inserts and will they be a perfect diopter correction for you or just an appropriate correction?

https://www.hypervision.ai/app...

Comment Cinephile is a killer app (Score 1) 148

Spend more money on AirPods Pro. Download an app called Cinephile, lie in bed, stream Star Wars Andor in 4k on a 100ft movie screen. Then tell me that you are still sad.

There is no doubt this is expensive, but I compared it to the cost and space consumption of very large screen TVs or 4k laser projectors. Its a great choice if you don't have a place to build a (good) home theater and don't want to run wires everywhere. Its well suited to people who travel a lot, or live alone, or perhaps are stuck in senior assisted living/military barrack/container ship, etc. where it could enhance your free time.

I don't think any VR device on the market is going to be a mainstream product due to weight and expense (in that order). Apple Vision Pro is so far ahead of the other offerings that its the most likely to evolve into the mainstream product.

Apple still has room to improve the hardware in many ways. Most important is that its not high resolution enough to use as a second monitor for your laptop. Text is harder to read than on the laptop screen itself. This is a big disappointment. Also, the requirement to use iCloud keychain is a fail. iCloud anything is a fail. Other apps like Split Screen and Immersed are coming along though, they don't require iCloud.

The device is slightly heavy to be used as intended and it hurts the nose when worn by some people. The field of view is competitive but if it were wider, that would be great. The internal reflections on the optics is a small nuisance in certain apps like watching bright videos on a black background.

Apple will devote a lot of time to the software which is promising, amazing even, but unfinished. VisionOS could do so much more and needs refinement. Its not buggy, its just lacking a ton of things that you would expect to be there after using iOS.

Apple Vision Pro might be the most high tech consumer product that I've ever used. Its unquestionably amazing. There are numerous times (per day) when I laugh out loud at how incredible it is... the immersive environments like Hawaii and Yosemite, gimmicky apps that float 3D objects n front of you with photorealism, immersive video, video games on your ceiling, Inspaze (weird but intriguing).

Watching movies in bed where the weight is not a factor is a killer app. Its stunning. Immersive video is also stunning, but making an immersive video worthy of an Oscar is very hard. The best apps are definitely yet to come.

There still isn't enough software available to justify the expense for most people. Apple must know this because they are really pushing you to be inspired to use iPad apps. Apple is, perhaps wisely, devoting no space to AVP apps on the app store so that the media cannot attack them on this front. When the apps arrive, Apple will definitely have a very obvious AVP presence on the App Store.

If cost is not an issue for you, and you want an amazing home theater, definitely buy Apple Vision Pro and AirPods Pro.

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