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oliverw

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Exploring the interaction design of future user experiences (Spatial Computing, Everyday AR etc). >24 years in UX across mobile, web, wearables, car, kiosk, speech etc. Adjunct at Sydney University

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daringfireball, to random
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Debugging the Voyager 1 From a Light Day Away
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/18/nasa-voyager-1-debugging

oliverw,
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@daringfireball They should have bought the Developer Strap…

charliemchapman, to random
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Putting together a conference talk on monetizing visionOS apps and I'd love to get some thoughts from ya'll 👂

If you've released a visionOS only app (not cross-platform) did you go paid-up-front, 1-time in-app purchase, or subscription and why?

oliverw,
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@charliemchapman Our first app Day Ahead https://www.contxtu.al/dayahead is paid up front $2.99, our second one (and even smaller utility) will be free with an small in-app purchase for non-essential nice-to-have’s. They’re our first apps (day to day we’re a UX consultancy, not Dev), so it’s all an experiment for us. Also likely to explore bundling.

pixel, to random
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I just walked around a. window while using Vision Pro. As if it was actually there. lol.

Walking through the windows kinda messes with your mind a bit.

oliverw,
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@pixel The closest thing I can think of is that it feels ‘disrespectful’ to walk through the app window. :-D

oliverw, to random
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A nice surprise! I was driving along listening to the Connected (https://www.relay.fm/connected) podcast with @imyke @viticci and @ismh talking about Apple Vision Pro apps when I hear Myke say: “Like also that one Day Ahead, I immediately bought that. That is a very cool idea about how to visualise your calendar, so I thought that was really cool.” :-) More info: https://www.contxtu.al/dayahead or the podcast: https://overcast.fm/+FXx6H1L-4/1:19:35

oliverw,
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@imyke @viticci @ismh A huge thanks to @imyke we’re a tiny team and this shoutout means a lot. And then we heard your shoutout on Upgrade too! It’s very appreciated.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Honest thought that has been nagging me for a while now: do I ever buy another iPad Pro now that Vision Pro exists? Especially with an incoming price hike, as rumored, that might bring the two product lines much closer in price. A MacBook Air with Mac Virtual Display in visionOS provides that escape hatch that gives me everything iPad never did, and visionOS effectively runs all the same software as iPad. Is direct touch really that important to me if I'm not drawing with a Pencil?

oliverw,
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@stroughtonsmith iPad Pro running macOS within visionOS…

jamesthomson, to random
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It is still very weird to ship an app that I've only run on a device for a handful of hours back in August.

At least it’s basically just 2D (hidden bananas aside) - my hat is off to anybody that's shipped a full 3D app today, that's much harder to pull off developing in the simulator.

And congratulations to the Apple people who have been working on this stuff for literally years!

oliverw,
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@jamesthomson We started 3D, but we started small :-) Day Ahead is an overview of your day's events in elegant 3D. It provides a beautiful, glanceable overview of your Apple Calendar events for the day, so you can always see your next meeting and tap to find out more. You can customise the event colour and view it vertically or horizontally to best suit your Spatial Computing workspace.
More here: https://www.contxtu.al/dayahead

https://apps.apple.com/app/day-ahead/id6476853500

oliverw,
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@jamesthomson Thanks :-) Hopefully it’s the first in a few that we’re nicknaming “Desk Excessories” as a homage to the earliest Macintosh operating system Desk Accessories and felt that it was appropriate for visionOS, as the metaphorical desktop can now be replaced with a physical desktop and/or the Spatial Computing workspace. We see the opportunity for people to create highly customised workspaces and have these utilities provide glanceable ambient information visualisations.

stroughtonsmith, to apple
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INSIGHT HEART

"Explore the human heart like never before. Rotate and scale the high-resolution 3d heart based on CT data floating in front of you and feast your eyes on highly detailed textures and the new blood flow simulation.”

/via https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1280845473

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oliverw,
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@stroughtonsmith And for Magic Leap 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uKNyag7sM8 with more information here: https://world.magicleap.com/en-us/details/com.animares.insightheart

daringfireball, to random
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★ The Vision Pro
https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_vision_pro

oliverw,
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@daringfireball If you’re looking for a 3D object to play with on the Day Ahead is an overview of your day's events in elegant 3D. It provides a beautiful, glanceable overview of your Apple Calendar events for the day, so you can always see your next meeting and tap to find out more. You can customise the colour and view it vertically or horizontally to best suit your Spatial Computing workspace.
https://www.contxtu.al/dayahead

https://apps.apple.com/app/day-ahead/id6476853500

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oliverw, to random
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Great to see! Really like the volumetric aspect to show where the balls have been hit :-) https://aus.social/@stuart/111808585721434919

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Vision Pro is a VR headset without controllers to play VR games, a media headset without support from the top streaming services, and a ‘spatial computer’ that can only run [some] iPad apps.

…and even still, I'm excited to have one 🤣

oliverw,
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@stroughtonsmith A Spatial Computer that doesn’t leverage ARKit in the shared space :-(

sdw, to random
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I don’t have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It’s worth celebrating that there’s talented people trying to do something very different.

oliverw, (edited )
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@sdw Agreed, but it’s a big jump from people’s current behaviour. I think one of the things Apple have done well with Apple Vision Pro is provided a transition path from current computing to spatial computing (use your Mac & iPad apps in this new Spatial Computing experience). This feels more like going cold turkey on mobile and I expect that the benefits of the experience only really happen when you’re fully invested. I’d like to try it https://mastodon.social/@oliverw/111382046717840301

superbetsy, to random
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I had the BEST time hosting “Take your app further with Apple Vision Pro” the past two days at the Apple Developer Center with these amazing speakers! Make sure to keep checking the website for new activities being added all the time! https://developer.apple.com/events/

The same group of people as the previous photo in the same setting. Except we are all jumping in the air, limbs flailing wildly, having a blast

oliverw,
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@superbetsy Sounds great! Any chance there are videos of the talks we can watch?

mpesce, to random
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In a seismic announcement that brings AI chatbots to three billion people, Meta is officially entering the AI chatbot wars, starting with its own assistant and a slew of AI characters it’s releasing in WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

http://windowscopilot.news/2023/09/28/meta-is-putting-ai-chatbots-everywhere/

oliverw,
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@mpesce The multi-modal smart glasses + AI functionality they talk about adding next year will add significantly to the initial offering. It’s all about context! I enjoyed the chat between Boz and Meta’s Chief Research Scientist Michael Abrash https://youtu.be/wveofSioke8?si=t-LlMm-2PjgoBl5J

cabel, (edited ) to random
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Do you use the Apple Watch “Walkie-Talkie” feature?

oliverw,
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@cabel Tried it, wanted it to work to communicate with wife and kid (with Apple Watches). Didn’t work. Would like it to

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I don't get to celebrate milestones on the App Store all that often, but this is a nice round number for a tiny developer like me with some very niche apps 😄

oliverw,
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@stroughtonsmith Congrats!

oliverw, to UserExperience
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I'll be speaking about "The #UserExperience of #SpatialComputing; from the brief basics to the #AppleVisionPro - how we’ve been preparing and #prototyping for the Apple Vision Pro" on Thursday night at CocoaHeads Sydney. https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/sydneycocoaheads/events/293611678/

pixel, (edited ) to random
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For those of you still using the service formerly known as Twitter. Why?

oliverw,
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@pixel A lot of the and still seem to post there and haven’t migrated across to Mastodon

wonderofscience, to random
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This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

Credit: dinaoren0/tiktok
Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@dinaoren0/video/7001678707005852933

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oliverw,
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@wonderofscience What’s the ROI on that? A fly a night? Fascinating

shantini, (edited ) to random
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Okay folks, I am here to talk about the most exciting news from today: new features coming soon in Notes :) 🧵
Disclaimer: we are a large team of world-class engineers, designers, QA experts, project managers, and other amazing minds. Unless otherwise noted, assume I personally did not work on any mentioned features.

Another disclaimer: these features are in beta.

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma-preview/

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview/

https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-17-preview/

oliverw,
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@shantini Congrats! Looking forward to using it. Notes is just getting stronger and stronger.

pschiller, to apple

Hello
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vision-pro/

oliverw,
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@pschiller Glad the term ‘Spatial Computing’ is being used, it includes a wider range of capability and interaction than just Augmented Reality or VR. And of course it’s great that the “M” word wasn’t used…

paul, to random
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I don't get why this is a “platform" vs just a Mac peripheral. To be fair I really don't get any of this, but I really don't get that part of it.

oliverw,
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@paul Designing spatial computing (beyond the 2D screens shown) will allow for integration of digital content into the real world in a much deeper way. See some video examples here: https://www.contxtu.al/apple-ar/apple's-music-and-light

oliverw, to random
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I was able to buy a last-minute ticket from a guy on the corner for ! Now I’m here, where is everybody?

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