Dan Bricklin @danb@qoto.org
One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
#Apple should make a variety of takes at showing a sport on #VisionPro available with a discussion board for feedback. Involve all us early adopters. Get ideas from lots of sports fans. Do it in public so we all feel part of it. Host Zoom/FaceTime-like discussions or something.
I just watched the new short MLS Apple soccer spatial/immersive video on my #VisionPro that came out tonight. Some scenes are viscerally great (e.g., crowds, shots on goal), some quick cuts in viewpoint are jarring since I feel physically disoriented / displaced from one location to another. No good plot since just separate scenes. I missed having slow motion / multiple viewing angle instant replay. Sports viewing is next level this way, but it needs lots of experimentation. I'd love to see various takes of the same sport, the same action.
@paninid @billseitz No offense taken... Spreadsheets are not something to try to sell #VisionPro to most of those who walk into an Apple Store.
Hmm. #EdTech. That's interesting. At current price point, could be good as you point out for training since it's so immersive.
@paninid @billseitz Yes. Apple will have to experiment, with different approaches for different people. I find the "Experience Immersive" short video to be a great demo of one aspect to show people. However, some of the best demos for me are my own photos/videos taken the last couple of months. (I went on a tour of Costa Rica in early February knowing a #VisionPro would be awaiting me when I returned, and took panoramas, spatial video, and GoPro for it.) Needing your own content is a demo issue. (More some other time about productivity uses. For number-oriented people, Excel can be soul-expanding....)
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@danb A good way to demo and also raise the FOMO in the developer community.
I wonder if Apple will make a #VisionPro app for use during #WWDC that has spatial streaming, multiple windows (like speaker & slides) and some surprising innovations. I would hope...
I run into this problem on my #VisionPro. I like looking at my collection of family photos/videos I've taken. For example, I tear up when I watch a video I took of a niece entering and walking down the aisle at her wedding. Hard to slide a finger under the hard metal below my eyes to wipe them.
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In this week's Under the Radar @marcoarment and I give the Vision Pro a two month check-in. We talk through our own experiences with the device, the usage numbers from our apps and then discuss how much attention we expect to give the platform.
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Backed How Comics Were Made. Only a couple days left on Kickstarter. I have a lot of books about art, comics, and animation especially, but I need more.
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Fascinated by how comics pass from an artist’s hand through to the printed page—or a display? I’ve spent years researching, interviewing, and developing *How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page*.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=3pmfzo
It’s now live on Kickstarter! If you’d like to a rich history of 130 years of newspaper cartooning told with original art, printing artifacts, and much more, help me make it a reality and get youself a copy!
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How Comics Were Made is a visual history of printing cartoons currently funding on Kickstarter, 76% to the goal with under 70 hours to hit it. @glennf exhaustively researched this 288-page full-color book for years, interviewing dozens of mainstream and alternative cartoonists, and I really hope it gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/
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Prediction: Face computers like Apple's Vision Pro will become a norm -- if not the norm -- for that most mundane but essential of tasks: Office work.
For all Apple's talk of "spatial computing," the discoveries of the early adopter's of Apple's take on them, all point to their primary utility being mundane but -- at the right weight and price point -- subtly transformative:
They'll supplant the many screens we rely on already.
my latest:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apples-new-face-computer-is-for-work-788e2750
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Piano: Flowing Tiles
"Interactive Note Display: Experience the thrill of a game-like environment as notes float onto your piano, guiding you through each song.”
I love how it calibrates where your piano keys are positioned without having access to the camera.
With the news that Microsoft will have lots of Office ready on Day 1 for Vision Pro, there are probably lots of other surprises we'll find in the coming days and weeks. If you are an iOS developer and thinking about Vision Pro, or just looking to get the viewpoint of a developer making something for it, it's worth reading Paul Hudson's (https://mastodon.social/@twostraws) blog post "Shipping a visionOS app for launch". https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/265/shipping-a-visionos-app-for-launch (A hand-driven synthesizer.)
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I built a visionOS app, and it's been approved in time for launch on Friday. It's called Spatial Symphony, and it's a synthesizer controlled entirely through hand gestures 🤌 I wrote about building the prototype, attending Apple's labs, and more here: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/265/shipping-a-visionos-app-for-launch
@stroughtonsmith Didn’t you need a Lisa to develop for the Mac at first?
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The first release of Internet Explorer (1995) is closer in time to the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969) than now.
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If you missed the livestream of Insanely Great last night, it’s up on the CHM YouTube channel already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl__10euTRo
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I'm delighted to be able to announce that @ismh has started working with me on my apps.
Bringing someone on isn't something I took lightly, but I have recently been really struck by how the way I had viewed being a "true indie" wasn't serving me. Instead, I now have a mindset of “Independent as in Freedom, not Independent as in Alone”, which I think will serve me (and my customers) much better into the future.
https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2024/01/23/independent-as-in-freedom/
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One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
