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Submersed In Immersive On Oct 10, 2024, Apple released Submersed on Apple TV+, a film made for the Apple Vision Pro. It tells a short story of young sailors on a submarine in WWII, which is under attack. While the audience for this film is currently small, the film represents the future of immersive story telling. I watched it when it premiered and can tell you it's unlike any other motion picture I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot. It's an amazing experience, with spatial audio effects,...
Neural Link? Called it! This week Meta introduced their XR Orion glasses. They resemble standard glasses with speakers and batteries in the arms, specially engineered holographic lenses and projectors. Using eye tracking and hand gestures. They are wireless, however users will carry a puck that does the computing and wear a neural link wrist band. I've been joking that the evolution of the Vision Pro will be an implant behind your ear as Apple will project visionOS into your head. Here are...
Hacking on visionOS! Last weekend I was a mentor on the first Vision Hack hackathon organized by Cosmo Scarf, Matt Hoerl, and Brian Boyd. There were 185 participants, from 21 countries, creating 61 visionOS projects and sharing in $2,500 in cash and prizes. Snap rolled out their 5th edition Snap AR Specticals in Santa Monica. "Another step on the evolutionary path of spatial computing with the benefit of no cables and optical seen through HMD AR. The field of view is bigger than the last set....