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by ladberg 3y ago
I was developing stuff to be shown inside the headset that wouldn't have worked in the simulator, so I was frequently using the headset regardless. It was often easier to just leave it on and develop than constantly put it on and take
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by ladberg 3y ago
To be honest I'm not entirely sure what reprojection is like on the final device or even if it exists at all, so my experience might be off. There may have been things that changed since I left and I'm not sure what the final plan
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by ladberg 3y ago
Yeah I don't think I'll be using one at dinner or hanging out in-person with friends any time soon, but there are a lot of non-work things I'd happily use it for. Gaming, TV, casual internet browsing, stationary exercise, soc
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by ladberg 3y ago
Unfortunately I haven't tried that one! $6,500 is a bit out of my personal price range haha and I didn't get a chance to try all the competitors while I was at Apple.
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by ladberg 3y ago
To be honest I don't know the actual FOV number. It feels better than some VR headsets I've tried and on par with others. The lenses are definitely a more exotic shape than the ones on my Vive so they're able to get closer to
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by ladberg 3y ago
Heat and condensation build up is a complete non-issue due to the built in fans! I've never once felt hot or stuffy inside the Vision Pro, and I totally do on other VR headsets. I don't really look at my keyboard while typing so t
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by ladberg 3y ago
Not exactly sure at all, I wouldn't have been able to predict this large of a leap before finding out about it myself. I do think a bunch of incremental improvements will eventually allow different use cases though. E.g. you'd nev
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by ladberg 3y ago
I've used other VR headsets and it's significantly better than everything I've tried. You'll be able to put up virtual monitors at the same density as real life and read stuff fine, I couldn't really discern pixels
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by ladberg 3y ago
Thanks! My motivations were mostly comp based (I'm in HFT now), I loved the product and the team I was on! Feel free to ask any questions here and I'll answer anything I can (e.g. no unreleased info, but maybe go into more detail
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by ladberg 3y ago
The pinch gesture on Vision Pro is pretty smooth and easy, about as much physical exertion as a mouse click. Right click is harder, I'd expect most app developers to do something similar to iOS and treat long clicks as right clicks but
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by ladberg 3y ago
For reference I was already pretty used to gaming in VR on inferior headsets before working on the Vision Pro, so I might be more forgiving of issues than your average person. I'd say that eye strain wasn't really an issue at all
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by ladberg 3y ago
I agree the keyboard will remain as the best text input device but I'm pretty confident that eye tracking will be categorically better than a mouse/trackpad. I'll expect that eye tracking solutions for normal monitors will al
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by ladberg 3y ago
> In short, my brain has crossed a Rubicon and now feels like experiences constrained to small, rectangular screens are lesser experiences. I left Apple 1.5 years ago but was working on the Vision Pro while I was there. I have spend many
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by ladberg 3y ago
For the use case I described you don't have to be tethered to a Mac but I do all my development on a remote linux box so I wouldn't really be compiling or accessing the command line on a Vision Pro. Tbh I think that just a web bro
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by ladberg 3y ago
I personally think it'll come a lot closer to replacing my laptop than my iPad did. I used my iPad on a daily basis in college for taking notes and doing homework but largely haven't touched it in the few years since. My work setu
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by ladberg 3y ago
At this point the changelog is surely just stuff along the lines of "retrained with more data" and "slightly tweaked model architecture in a random way that improved performance". And out of curiosity: as someone with a
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by ladberg 3y ago
Is it? I have a nearly 5 year old Apple Watch (series 4) on my wrist and I've never had any issues with it. I'll probably replace it when a new watch comes out with a feature I really want (unlikely) or the battery stops lasting a
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by ladberg 3y ago
Happy to give insight and answer any more questions you might have! I'm no longer at Apple but I did work on the Vision Pro and am super excited to be able to talk about it now. Of course I can't spill all the secrets and am being
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by ladberg 3y ago
Yeah I definitely agree with you that a FAANG could add a substantial feature to a headset in 2 years, but I think that there are a combination of circumstances that make it pretty impossible in this case. In my mind it's some combin
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by ladberg 3y ago
Think of it like those movie posters or bookmarks that change as you move from side to side, but with a screen behind it. The Wikipedia article might explain it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens It
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by ladberg 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/live/GYkq9Rgoj8E?t=6729
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by ladberg 3y ago
That wording would lead me to believe that Asahi Lina as a pseudo-anonymous vtuber would not qualify for upstreaming. It sounds like they want to allow people to use preferred names that might not match their legal name but still are tied t
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by ladberg 3y ago
Can't really give out any non-public info unfortunately. I'm not saying that everything was fixed in stone by 8/2021, but any big hardware features like the front-facing display would take longer than that to develop start-to
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by ladberg 3y ago
If you're suggesting that Apple implemented Meta's research starting as it was published on 8/2021, then that timeline absolutely does not work.
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by ladberg 3y ago
This is not the same as the Vision Pro's display. This paper describes tracking a single other person and displaying a perspective-correct rendering for them, but the Vision Pro displays a perspective-correct rendering for many viewpoi
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by ladberg 3y ago
Not just being a vtuber, but outing them as an alter ego of marcan. Not exactly the nicest thing to do on HN's part (and I'm probably complicit by posting this comment), but also the information is already "out there" an
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by ladberg 3y ago
In addition to the simulator / SDK, I'd recommend also building your apps with iPhone/iPad support because the codebase will be 99% the same and you can get try out how it works in "real" AR instead of a simulated e
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by ladberg 3y ago
Since it seems like the poster works for the company: the ads on this article are all semi-nsfw for me, more-so than the average GAd I see (is that something you can tune?). I reported them to Google but that might be a black hole. Addition
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by ladberg 3y ago
This is pretty big news! It basically means anyone can write nearly any* apps they want without going through the App Store or needing approval from Apple in any way. It also allows the headset to launch with an existing ecosystem of VR app
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by ladberg 3y ago
Technically Sherlock predates Watson, it's just a lot of the useful additional features added by Watson were copied to Sherlock.

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