Have It Your Way.
Apple (YouTube) 18 things from WWDC24
Here’s [Apple’s] guide to the big announcements from this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Watch the full keynote here: apple.co/3RjCPkA
MacRumors: Apple and Canon Announce Mirrorless Camera Lens Designed for Spatial Video Capture
Canon’s RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL lens is specifically intended to capture spatial video content, tailored for use with Apple’s Vision Pro headset. The new lens is designed for the Canon EOS R7 camera and features dual optics, mimicking the human field of view.
The RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL lens features a high-speed autofocus mechanism, ensuring that even in challenging lighting conditions, videographers can capture clear spatial video. After recording, the footage can be processed using Canon’s EOS VR Utility app, which transforms the video into spatial content optimized for the Vision Pro.
MacStories: Apple Intelligence: The MacStories Overview
But what can Apple Intelligence actually do? The features offered by the system are broken down into three categories: language, images, and Siri.
The Verge: Apple’s AI leaders talk Siri, Apple Intelligence, and more
The WWDC keynote may be over, but we still have lots of questions about the state and future of Apple Intelligence. And in a somewhat unusual move, Apple is here to answer some of them: Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, two of the executives in charge of all of Apple’s AI efforts, are taking the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater to talk about everything Apple announced on Monday.
Wired: The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Good news! Every iPhone that was capable of installing iOS 17 can run iOS 18. Apple did not drop any iPhones from the list of supported devices this year.
The Verge: Apple announces visionOS 2 with 3D photo transformations and an ultrawide Mac display
Apple has announced visionOS 2, the second version of the Vision Pro’s operating system. When the update comes out in the fall, it will start to bring with it some much-needed changes, including what could be a much better virtual display experience, an updated homescreen and hand gestures, and new Photos app features.
First, Apple has some deeply needed improvements coming to the visionOS interface, like the ability, at long last, to rearrange apps on your homescreen — and that includes iPad and iPhone apps. Not only that, but there will be new gestures for summoning the homescreen, viewing Control Center, and even just checking your battery life or the time (using a very clever wrist roll that’s not dissimilar from looking at your watch). And if you have family or friends that you want to share the headset with, Apple says it will save guest users’ hand and eye data for 30 days. That should make it much easier to share the Vision Pro.
The most significant update, for all the productivity heads out there, is a new ultrawide virtual display feature. Apple says that in visionOS 2, you’ll be able to connect a Vision Pro to a Mac to generate a dual 4K-equivalent curved ultrawide display. Right now, the virtual display feature only does a single up to 5K one.
Also, the company will finally add mouse support to the Vision Pro — at launch, the headset could work with trackpads like the one on a MacBook Air or the standalone Magic Trackpad 2 but oddly left out mouse support. You can still use one inside a mirrored display in the Vision Pro, but not outside of that screen in, say, an iPad or Vision Pro app. And if you like working in a fully immersed space but you’re tired of pawing around to find your keyboard, I have great news: the company says the Vision Pro “will now reveal the user’s physical keyboard.”
Last Updated: 11.Jun.2024 20:31 EDT
