So I've got something a little more sophisticated I want to build with #VisionPro's 3D canvas, and the biggest hitch was figuring out how to snap an object to a detected plane.
Thanks to some REALLY complicated sample code from Apple, I built up a proof of concept that raycasts from the device's position and orientation and projects a dropzone onto detected planes
You can see it moving from the desk to the top of the encyclopedia here
I'm not surprised that's the case the more I dig into it
the affordances for accessing the incredible power of the LiDAR scanner are... slippery. It's a lot of work and quite conceptually opaque, and that discourages adoption I suspect.
This is the most excited I’ve been in my career. Anyone who is waiting for instant results here with only two weeks with the hardware is playing the wrong game. This is the next 30 years
@Bri That recording was done in the voice memos app, which is still an iOS app. I will have to try to record a spatial video, and see what comes out of that.
@jimmylittle hell I’ve got coffee machines on my saving-up-for list that cost more than the #visionpro did. And they’re specifically designed to do one thing only
The only developmental thing I do nowadays is make Shortcuts, but seeing all these cool #VisionPro implementations like X:florianvates’s Mindr app show me how much different it is from designing and developing for screens.
@tomk It’s not the same for sure, but especially in Vision Pro making shortcuts requires intentional design and deciding how these screens interact with each other/the data flows between. It’s meta development by way of scripting, and you’re able to stand on the shoulders of these developers – plus inform them of how their tools can be used in context.
Sorry to dump, your comment opened a whole in my brain lol
I mean, check out this visionOS plane detection demo someone backed up into their github (Apple's went missing)
Planes are detected by ARKit, marked with colored overlays, and labeled
This gives you an idea of just how much surface is available to the #VisionPro developer for positioning content in ways that support spatial reasoning in a familiar environment. We've never been able to build software that interacts like this before.
@danilo I feel like this gets really interesting when you start designing the physical space/interfaces to interact with this. Like a midi controller with all blank controls that you can project different interfaces on when toggling between modes.
Like Apple TV, you should be able to use your iPhone for text input. The quality of passthrough even before an AR overlay more than works, and it’s infinitely faster than the glance and pinch keyboard or trying to touch the keys
@danilo can you do that with iphone-to-ipad? I tried doing that with my android phone+tablet, seemed like I had to use Airdroid and it was unusably slow....
I’m honestly baffled as to what audience Zuck is targeting with his post on #VisionPro vs #Meta#Quest3. Surely the people buying $500 headsets aren’t the same as those buying $3500 ones.
Maybe it’s targeted toward recent Quest customers, to assure them that they didn’t make a mistake buying that product. But again, you’d have to buy seven Quest 3s to get one Vision Pro, so, I’m not sure that adds up.
Maybe Zuck is just telegraphing that he’s aware that Vision Pro beats them in several characteristics, and that he’s still committed to the Quest line.
@danilo@drahardja I think this really gets to it. I’m baffled by the folks who see this as some kind of master stroke, mostly it shows FB falls into the category as Android and Windows in terms of a total lack of taste.
@jimray@drahardja but I think we coulda predicted the guys who make billions per quarter radicalizing maga dipshits and antivaxxers were pretty tacky, right?
The pass through features sound impressive. But how much of our brain's bandwidth do we need to spend on visual experience?
After we experience the novelty of a particular space, we tend to let it fade into the background.
There are reasons we close our eyes to experience something profound.
I just purchased a #VisionPro, and I am so excited about it!!! I will be recording an #iACast#UnboxCast this evening. I can't wait! It will be on iACast Radio, Discord, and other places. https://iacast.net/listen