Apple: doesn't have the resources to fix longstanding problems in iPadOS
Also Apple: has time to build realistic, physicalized 3D-rendered phantom shadows of various skeuomorphic drawing implements for PencilKit
https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7CpmYevMwf
@stroughtonsmith Now, imagine that pen in your hand over or on an iPad (perhaps on Magic Keyboard as an easel) as you look straight ahead with #VisionPro. Squeeze, rotate, haptics, hover.
@kaplag @stroughtonsmith I love writing on an iPad, too (cf my NoteTakerHD iPad app from 2010) and have lots of tablet/pen experience from the 1990’s including pen/tablet/spreadsheet and other areas patents. But the VisionPro opens other avenues but lacks a rich fine-motor input means.
@danb @stroughtonsmith I’d just take iPad out of it. Artists would cry if they saw you use it that way 😅.
Apple Vision Pro does need more precision input. Apple seems staunch that “controllers” are not the way to go, but Apple Pencil Pro fits in their whole Vibe of a “tool”.
@kaplag @stroughtonsmith Apple apparently has been doing lots of work related to pencils and #VisionPro. See some of the patents: https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/patents-smart-pens/ There's cameras-in-pencil, moving in the air, game controls, and more.
@danb @stroughtonsmith or maybe you were being sarcastic and it went right over me. Haha
Apple Pencil Pro support might be interesting for Apple Vision Pro if it worked directly in visionOS without an iPad. With the new sensors it may be able to act as a precise 3D controller the way VR controllers work for other products. This could bring value beyond iPad to 3D sculptors. It could also be used to “draw” on any surface that an iPadOS app running in VisionOS or an visionOS app is pinned to.
@danb @stroughtonsmith Indirect tablets are fine, but there’s a reason people love Cintiq displays and iPads and it’s for working directly on the surface.
Imagine you have the world’s best tablet display but then opt to use it as a 2008 bamboo tablet while wearing a heavy and straining device that blurs and distorts your perepheral vision just to solve the problem of some possible neck strain from looking down a bit. 🙄