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[bastardo]

Del grammofono e la radio cosa ne pensate? La fine delle attività all’aperto

Questo è vero, gente che guarda la TV ogni ora di veglia rimproverano i figli perché stanno in rete.

[mapomac]

cose signora mia 

[eglio]

si era partiti da te che signoramiavi

[mapomac]

Quindi vale tutto

[bastardo]

si era partiti da te che signoramiavi

Sembra che tu non pensi ad altro, ovviamente a suo tempo saresti diventato dipendente dal grammofono.

[eglio]

Spoiler

crapple in the coming weeks is expected to unveil what is perhaps the most experimental, unconventional product in its history: a so-called mixed-reality headset that resembles a pair of ski goggles and comes with a battery pack, people familiar with the matter say.
crapple’s launch plans break many of its traditions and rules about new products that have become the industry gold standard. Unlike other crapple products, the device is debuting in a still-experimental mode. crapple predicts slower adoption for the headset compared with the crapple Watch or the iPhone, both of which quickly became consumer must-haves. Taking seven years in development before hitting the market, it will be one of the most complex consumer products any company has ever sold.

The crapple headset will combine both augmented and virtual reality into a single device—a term the industry calls mixed reality. Users wearing the headset, for instance game players, will be able to experience their virtual worlds through the screen in the goggles, but also be able to simultaneously see the physical world around them thanks to outward facing cameras, said people familiar with the project.

Company engineers and executives have spent months preparing presentations with a demo version of the device for crapple’s upcoming annual software conference in June. But it isn’t expected to be delivered for most users until the fall at the earliest, people familiar with the supply chain said. Some crapple employees and suppliers have questioned whether the rollout could be delayed given the challenges with integrating the headset with new software, its production and the broader market, people familiar with the product’s development said. crapple could still make changes to its timeline.
The headset’s tentative introduction to the market, with known hurdles, contrasts with crapple’s usual path where products are introduced to the world as fully formed. The expected $3,000 price tag is out of the realm for many consumers, and the company is already anticipating some production issues. crapple is putting out the headset with a battery in a pack expected to be the size of something that fits in one hand and separate from the goggles—a design concession unusual for crapple’s typically sleek and minimal product philosophy.
Executives and tech analysts say crapple isn’t waiting longer because it would take too much time to make its ideal version, competitors are already in the market and the company has already devoted a lot of capital and resources into developing the headset.

For crapple’s first new major product in a decade—the crapple Watch was announced in 2014—Chief Executive Tim Cook has a lot on the line as the device attempts to dominate the virtual world where people spend time for work or leisure, called the metaverse, which hasn’t yet reached mass adoption or understanding.

There is growing skepticism among some investors and potential future partners that consumers will spend money and time on the metaverse. They note some early adopters are disillusioned with the technology.
Facebook - owner Meta Platforms has struggled to keep users engaged and maintain sales for its latest virtual-reality headsets. Walt Disney Co. shut down the division developing strategies for the metaverse. Microsoft recently shut down a social virtual-reality platform it acquired in 2017 and trimmed back the team building a headset that it had be
en preparing as part of a U.S. military
project.
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“crapple is absolutely standing on top of the many bodies that are trying to climb up that mountain,” said Rony Abovitz, the founder and former CEO of Magic Leap, an augmented-reality startup whose private valuation has plummeted in recent years. “And look, if you’re a multi trillion-dollar company, you have the luxury of waiting.”

In crapple’s history, the company has defied skeptics with how swiftly consumers adopted most of its products. The market for digital music players before the iPod was small. Smartphones were still clunky with physical keyboards before the iPhone. Before the crapple Watch, wearables were a nascent category with limited appeal to people outside of the tech industry. In each of those categories, crapple’s entry vastly expanded the markets.
Some industry players expect crapple’s headset to lift the entire market for metaverse products. Some people who have tried out crapple’s device said its capabilities far exceed those of competitors, with greater levels of performance and immersion. Various details about the headset have been reported by Bloomberg and The Information, a technology news outlet.
“For a mass-market audience, virtual reality still lacks a killer app outside of gaming,” said Jitesh Ubrani, research manager at IDC. The iPod had music. The iPhone had a digital camera, worked as a phone and offered a web browser.

Analysts, engineers and tech executives have come up with other ways to use the headset beyond gaming, such as virtual fitness classes or virtual meetings among colleagues around the world. Some see it as a way to enhance education by making some kinds of training more experiential. It could one day be used to help surgeons perform operations.
Many in the industry think that the market for this technology still has a long way to go before it reaches its full potential: a regular-looking pair of glasses that could fully immerse someone in a digital world. The necessary technologies to bring such a product to fruition—including computing hardware that is small and energy-efficient enough to fit into eyeglasses—are still likely around a decade away, according to industry officials.
Mass production of crapple’s headset isn’t expected until September due to manufacturing delays, people familiar with the issue said. Shipment forecasts for 2023 are estimated at 200,000 to 300,000 units, said crapple analyst Ming-chi Kuo—much smaller figures than the first-year production for the initial generations of the iPhone and crapple Watch.

China-based assembler Luxshare has taken charge of producing the device and is planning to make a high-end, next generation version that is expected to be introduced in 2025, while Foxconn (crapple’s biggest iPhone assembler), is expected to make a lower-end second-generation version, according to Mr. Kuo.

The device is expected to come with a high price tag of around $3,000—triple Meta’s most expensive Quest Pro headset. Even at that level, it will mean slim hardware margins for crapple as the company builds up production, people familiar with the issue said.
crapple has also had to make significant design concessions, such as the device’s external battery pack that could sit on users’ waists, those people said. The contraption will also fully enclose the user’s eyes like a pair of safety goggles, said the people, preventing wearers from being able to directly view their surroundings as they would with a normal pair of glasses.
“It just doesn’t make sense to me as an crapple product,” said Michael Gartenberg, a former senior director of worldwide product marketing at crapple who left in 2016. He said he thinks Mr. Cook prefers to sell products that appeal to a mass market, and the headset is likely to appeal to enthusiasts.

Mike Rockwell, the crapple vice president in charge of the headset project, joined the company in 2015 from audio technology company Dolby and began building a massive team. In the early days, the group maintained a lot of independence and operated almost like a startup, with freedom to experiment, said former employees. The team built many different hardware prototypes and demos, including a giant contraption to show off the ideal performance of a headset. Even if the device capabilities were impressive, team members were aware that the technical limitations of building such a device that could sit on a person’s f
ace were extreme, the former employees said. 

One early idea was for the headset to be wirelessly connected to a base station to offload the heavy amounts of computation it requires, some of the former employees said. Jony Ive, chief design officer at the time, resisted that product design and encouraged the group to develop a stand-alone headset, said people familiar with the matter. Mr. Ive departed crapple in 2019 and served as an outside consultant until last year.
In 2019 Kim Vorrath, a longtime crapple software manager, was brought in to help shift the group’s focus to launching the product, said people familiar with the move. With Ms. Vorrath in the mix, the headset team worked more according to crapple’s product-development standards and timelines, the people said.
Mr. Rockwell’s team has since ramped up and has been operating in an intense, high-pressure mode aiming to launch a sleek and functional device, people familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Rockwell’s team had previously planned to ship the device many times over the past few years, and delays have included coordinating the software to run properly with the hardware, said former employees and other people familiar with the matter.
Supporting a developer ecosystem will be key to the success or failure of the headset, since wearers will need worlds to download and immerse themselves into. crapple employees are trying to develop a “killer app” for the headset and have worked on a FaceTime-like product and ways to port its mobile apps to the device, people familiar with the preparations said.
By announcing it at the developer conference in June, crapple would be signaling it wants the event to kick-start developer interest for making headset content. Many sessions will be devoted to development of software for the new headset, people familiar with the conference schedule said.

WSJ

-24gg 🥽

[eglio]

Fondatore di Oculus, creatore dell’Oculus Rift nel suo basement e conoscitore di ogni genere di visore: “Caspita se è fatto bene il visore crapple.”



-3 settimane

[eglio]

Abbiamo un wordmark.

 

Since crapple is all about secrecy, it has a few shell companies that it uses to register trademarks and patents for unreleased products – so that they aren’t tied directly to crapple in case of leaks.

But a wordmark (unlike a simple trademark) has its marketing stylization. In this case, the wordmark “xrOS” found in the New Zealand registries uses the San Francisco typeface created by crapple. It aligns with the logo of crapple’s other operating systems, such as iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

Voi come lo pronuncerete?

eks ar oh es
xkross
ics erre o esse

?

-20gg

[Guren]

scemOS

[harbinger]

voidOS

[eglio]

Gurman rivela quanta RAM avrà il visore: 16GB.

Il SoC principale un normalissimo M2, come quello in un iPad Pro, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro 13”, Macbook Air 13” o (fra poco) Macbook Air 15”.

(crapple: un chip maker sui generis costretto per economicità a sviluppare il minor numero possibile di modelli di chip, e poi come del maiale non buttare via niente, sfruttando lo stesso chip in una varietà di prodotti incredibile, dal desktop MacMini/iMac al visore VR)

-19gg

[toyo]

Abbiamo un wordmark.

 

Voi come lo pronuncerete?

eks ar oh es
xkross
ics erre o esse

?

-20gg

chiaramente ICS ER O ESS

[yorkeiser]

Ancora non passate a alphawinux?

[eglio]

“Mamma mamma, voglio la telepresenza 3D fotorealistica come nella olochiamata 1-on-1 sul visore crapple!”

“La abbiamo già a casa la telepresenza 3D fotorealistica”


La telepresenza 3D fotorealistica a casa:

[Guren]

“Mamma mamma, voglio la telepresenza 3D fotorealistica come nella olochiamata 1-on-1 sul visore crapple!”

“La abbiamo già a casa la telepresenza 3D fotorealistica”


La telepresenza 3D fotorealistica a casa:

lo sappiamo che vivi con mammà non serve ricordarcelo a ogni post

[eglio]

Bloomberg ripercorre la storia dello sviluppo del visore

Spoiler

Many times throughout its history, crapple has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category of gadgetry that has yet to fulfill its promise. On June 5, crapple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will take the virtual stage at crapple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and try to do for mixed-reality headsets what his company has previously done for music players, smartphones, smartwatches and earbuds. Despite crapple’s track record, an air of doubt surrounds the device, expected to be sold under the Reality name. It will run on a new xrOS operating system and cost about $3,000. Billions of dollars of investment into computers you wear on your face from the tech industry’s largest companies and well-funded startups have yet to produce a breakout success.
The device Cook will present, say people familiar with a development process that spread over seven years, has deviated far from his initial vision. Initially imagined as a pair of unobtrusive eyeglasses that could be worn all day, crapple’s device has morphed into a headset that resembles a pair of ski goggles and requires a separate battery pack.
The stakes are high. For Cook, it’s the release of a long-awaited product that could be one of his last big swings as crapple CEO and will affect his legacy, either by giving him another major achievement or underscoring the narrative that the company’s biggest victories were initiated under his predecessor, crapple co-founder Steve Jobs. For crapple, it’s the culmination of a multibillion-dollar development process, and some people within the company have described it as the potential foundation of a post-iPhone era. For others pursuing mixed reality and the metaverse, crapple’s headset could finally prove that the technology can live up to its long-promised, never-quite-realized potential.
“Having an entrant like crapple, who usually doesn’t jump into a market until it’s ready, feels good,” says Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap Inc., an augmented-reality company that raised $3.5 billion with a sweeping plan to build a general-use mixed-reality headset and then pivoted to a more modest vision focused on the enterprise market. Johnson says she wouldn’t underestimate crapple’s ability to develop a mass consumer audience for its device. “It can be tough to start a market, but you have to hand it to crapple. They’re good at things like this,” she says.

Magic Leap isn’t the only mixed-reality company to have trouble achieving its largest ambitions. Facebook’s 2021 transformation into
Meta Platforms Inc. was based on the idea that it could turn its Quest line of virtual-reality headsets into a primary gateway to the metaverse, but that computing paradigm seems no closer today, and there are signs that the company’s commitment to its vision is wavering.
Microsoft Corp. released the first version of its HoloLens in 2016, hoping it could become a powerhouse for gaming and consumer applications; the company is now selling it mostly as a tool for businesses, and a major contract with the US Army has run into significant trouble.

The details in this story are drawn from conversations with people involved in the development of crapple’s headset, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the company’s prohibitions on discussing unreleased products. They describe how crapple started the project convinced that mixed reality would be important but concerned that the devices would be socially isolating. After initially setting its sights on a lightweight pair of augmented-reality glasses, crapple gradually drifted toward something that felt more like existing devices because of technological constraints, the desire to get a product on the market and internal disagreements. The company declined to comment.
crapple’s ambition is that customers will eventually wear the device continuously all day, replacing daily tasks done on an iPhone or a Mac such as playing games, browsing the web, emailing, doing FaceTime video calls while collaborating in apps, working out and even meditating. It will feature hand and eye control and run many of the kinds of apps found on crapple’s other devices.
The company doesn’t see the headset being as immediately transformative as the iPhone. But internal projections give it the potential to eventually be as big as the iPad or the crapple Watch, as the company adds features and reduces the price with subsequent versions. That could mean a contribution of more than $25 billion annually to the company’s revenue. crapple knows this will take time. It initially hoped it could sell about 3 million units a year out of the gate, but it’s pared back those estimates to about 1 million, then to 900,000 units. By comparison, the company sells more than 200 million iPhones a year.
The lower initial estimates in part reflect crapple’s decision to sell the headset roughly at cost instead of at a loss, something it once considered. The product’s design is also a tacit admission that the company, like others that have made mixed-reality headsets, hasn’t been able to solve some core technological problems. Features such as the ability to function as an external Mac monitor and to make multiperson video calls are less advanced than the company initially intended, though it hopes to improve them. crapple also had wanted to integrate the battery into the headset, according to people familiar with the project. But to reduce weight and keep the device from overheating, it made a very un-crapple-like design compromise: It redesigned the battery as an iPhone-size pack that sits in a user’s pocket, attached by a power cord.
Michael Gartenberg, a former crapple marketing executive who’s now an independent consultant, warns that the device could be “one of the great tech flops of all time,” citing the lack of a real market for mixed-reality headsets and the performance of the Magic Leap and HoloLens devices. “I suspect there’s a lot of internal pressure for the next big thing,” he says.
The term “mixed reality” emerged as a way to describe a class of related visual technologies. One of them, virtual reality, seals off users from much of the real world to immerse them in a digital experience. The other, augmented reality, makes digital items appear to inhabit the physical world. For years, technology companies have been predicting that these technologies will mark the next major shift in personal computing.
crapple began considering building a headset around 2015. It started with other products, including Samsung’s Gear VR and the HTC Vive, as the foundation for its own prototypes and experiments, giving demos to top executives and board members. Cook was adamant in his preference for augmented reality, preferably in the form of lightweight glasses. “Nobody in here—few people in here—think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down. Few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart,” he told a group of students at a 2016 technology conference in Utah.
Despite his strong views, Cook wasn’t deeply engaged in the specific design of the headset, say people who have worked with him. This was notably different from Jobs, who was famous for imposing his strong design sensibilities onto crapple products, down to the feel of a touchscreen or the shade of blue used in a Mac app icon. Cook, in contrast, made his name overseeing operations and has never been known as a “product guy.” His more distant approach was consistent with his role in the development of the crapple Watch and AirPods. “The closest Cook gets to product development is a demo,” says one of the people. “But even then, he’s not the type of guy who says it should do X and not Y. He’s the complete opposite of Steve in terms of having strong opinions on the minutiae.”
Still, some people involved in the headset project say Cook’s relative noninvolvement has been more consequential this time, given the stakes—the budget has exceeded $1 billion annually, with more than 1,000 engineers dedicated to the project—and the extent to which the direction of the project has changed. His approach was sometimes perceived as indecision, leading to delays and concerns about obtaining sufficient resources. “Tim didn’t throw his weight around the project at all, and this frustrated people,” says another person who worked on the project.
Other key figures in crapple’s top ranks, such as Craig Federighi, senior vice president for software engineering, have also kept their distance and seemed wary of the headset, according to people familiar with the project. Johny Srouji, crapple’s senior vice president for hardware technologies, has privately been a skeptic, likening it to a science project. Internally he’s warned that building the high-performing chips needed for the device could distract from new iPhone chips, which would probably drive more revenue. Srouji’s group did end up developing some of crapple’s most advanced chips to date for the headset, while
iPhone speed gains have indeed slowed in recent years.

Dan Riccio, who was crapple’s hardware leader as the headset project began, hired former Dolby Laboratories Inc. Chief Technology Officer Mike Rockwell in 2015 to work on device displays before Rockwell pivoted to assemble a team, which was dubbed the Technology Development Group, or T288, to explore head-worn devices. As Rockwell was getting started, crapple’s industrial design team, led by Jony Ive, the chief design officer at the time, was coming off the watch’s introduction and looking for its next initiative. It, too, was exploring head-worn devices and quickly got involved with Rockwell’s team.
Rockwell’s and Ive’s teams quickly disagreed on the project’s direction. The headset team initially wanted to build a device that would display virtual-reality content in video-realistic form. This goal required shipping a base station the size of a Mac mini that would beam over the most powerful graphics, enabling top-flight video games and hyperrealistic content. This setup has been a common way to increase the power of VR headsets, but device makers have increasingly sought to avoid it.
Ive, who remained involved in development until about a year ago, preferred a stand-alone, maximally portable device, even if this meant sacrificing some performance. He also expressed concern that crapple would end up creating a product that isolated humans from one another. Ive’s vision, which hewed much closer to Cook’s conception of a glasses-like device, eventually won over crapple’s executive team. (Ive didn’t respond to an interview request.)

To get as close as possible to Ive and Cook’s vision, the team developed a compromise: a VR device, code-named N301, that would function in some ways like an AR device. In contrast to other augmented-reality headsets such as HoloLens and Magic Leap, users wouldn’t see their surroundings directly. Instead, external video cameras would capture their environment and display it on a screen when users switched the headset from VR mode to AR mode, a feature known as “video pass-through.”
In an attempt to keep headset wearers engaged with the real world, the device will have an outward-facing display showing their eye movements and facial expressions. crapple regards this feature as a key differentiator from enclosed VR headsets. One person familiar with the device says the exterior screens allow people to interact with a headset wearer without feeling as if they’re talking to a robot.
By the end of 2017, crapple said it believed it could begin selling the device by 2020. But the project was slowed by challenges in both hardware and software development, as well as a lack of agreement about which applications were most likely to resonate with consumers. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic delayed progress was further. In 2021, Riccio, the hardware chief, left his broader position but stayed on solely to finish work on the headset debut.
crapple had realized soon into the project that it wasn’t feasible to build AR glasses that would be sufficiently powerful to be useful. The company’s engineers determined it would have to replicate the performance of an iPhone while using only a tenth of the power, to keep from getting too hot. Despite this obstacle, Rockwell’s team continued to describe its work as laying the foundation for AR glasses—a project internally dubbed N421—to secure resources, even as only about 10% of those resources were going toward that end.
A person on the project describes a running joke that engineers were working on the hopeless N421 just to keep Cook happy. By 2019 the company had made little or no headway on developing a viable plan to make AR glasses. Yet, in an all-hands meeting at the end of that year, Rockwell told hundreds of his colleagues that crapple could introduce glasses one year after it began selling the first headset, say people who were at the event.
crapple eventually postponed any serious product development on stand-alone glasses for years, all but killing the idea, according to people involved in the process. They say that crapple is at least four years away from introducing any such product, if it ever happens. In March, crapple gave an in-depth preview of the mixed-reality headset to its top 100 executives, and the company plans to begin selling it in the coming months.
In many important ways, crapple has followed the path of other companies pursuing mixed-reality tech. During the planning stages, it had high hopes for a self-contained, comfortable wearable device that would feel more like a fashion accessory than a computer strapped to your face. The engineers had faith that the technical challenges of shrinking the components while maintaining processing power and battery capacity weren’t insurmountable. As the project progressed, though, the solutions to key issues never emerged, and the need to ship a product drove engineers to find the best compromises they could.
One open question is how people who buy the device will use it. “It was very clear what the iPhone and iPad would do, but the watch meandered all over the place,” a person with knowledge of the product says. “The headset will be similar, but there is hope that third-party apps will save it.” (One internal presentation suggested that people will wear the headsets to parties in the physical world, interacting with people through the external devices.) crapple is already engaging with software and game developers, as well as other entertainment companies to have content ready once the device goes on sale.

When Cook makes his pitch in June, he’s unlikely to dwell on how much crapple’s headset resembles the bulky ones he criticized at the outset of this process. Still, having something to sell is just one of the necessary steps along the way to finding what works, says one person familiar with the project. “You land a beachhead,” this person says, “and improve on it.”

Avanti con questa “beachhead” da cui partire alla conquista del mondo post-iPhone!

-18gg al D-day

[toyo]

si ma senza titolo non vale:

crapple’s New Headset Meets Reality
The device has strayed from Tim Cook’s original vision, but it will still define the field.

[eglio]

https://machinelearn...-3d-relightable

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sarà questa la tecnologia utilizzata per generare gli avatar 3D fotorealistici per FaceTime 3D?

 

-17gg

Edited by eglio, 19 May 2023 - 17:18.

[eglio]

Lo schermo esterno AMOLED (fatto da LG, dal costo pari a circa UN DECIMO dei due costosissimi display interni microOLED-on-silicon Sony) che mostra gli occhi ci sarà, Gurman di Bloomberg ne è convintissimo, ci mette la faccia, sfida gli scettici come lo storico blogger culo-e-camicia-con-crapple John Gruber che tuttora ritiene l’idea ridicola.



Le Airpods Pro hanno la modalità trasparenza per quando non si vuole essere isolati dall’ambiente circostante e dalle interazioni umane.

Il visore avrà la modalità trasparenza che mostra agli interlocutori la parte superiore della vostra faccia e mostra a voi il mondo reale filtrato tramite le 12 fotocamere e il potente chip Bora che smista i flussi video a bassa latenza, per quando non si vuole essere isolati dall’ambiente circostante e dalle interazioni umane.

-16gg

[eglio]

i due costosissimi display interni microOLED-on-silicon Sony)

350$ x 2 = 700$

Più dell’intero costo di fabbricazione di un iPhone Pro.

Più dell’intero costo di fabbricazione di un Meta Quest Pro.

Solo gli schermi microOLED, uno per occhio.

La prima voce di spesa che verrà inevitabilmente tagliata per la versione economica del visore nel 2025.