Apple home robots, Spatial Personas on Vision Pro, iOS 17.5 beta
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance discuss the bizarre idea that Apple is interested in making a humanoid robot to help with household chores, as its “next big thing”. Also, Apple launches the first ever sports ‘film’ shot in Immersive Video, and releases Spatial Personas for all Vision Pro users.
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- Apple launches first ever Immersive Video sports film for Apple Vision Pro
- New spatial Persona beta feature launching for Apple Vision Pro users today
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| 0:00.0 | So Mayo, before we get going, I want to just take a second and first thank everybody who's subscribed to Happy R Plus so far. It's been a good uptake and I think we've enjoyed making the bonus content. We're doing the post show so it's at the end of every |
| 0:15.0 | episode so if you are a subscriber make sure you listen all the way through this |
| 0:18.9 | week we'll talk about what Mayo you're learning how to drive and you have some driving theory test apps. |
| 0:24.7 | Yeah, I'm in the midst of that right now and the apps could be way better. |
| 0:29.2 | Let's put that one. I'm shocked. Other things we've talked about, we talked about Tic Talk one week, we talked about |
| 0:36.6 | Apple Arcade, we talked about some Rivian and Tesla things. What was last week? Oh, last week was fun. We ranked our favorite W. W. W. D.C. |
| 0:44.8 | Invite Artwork. That was a good one. Yeah, that was a fun one. So that's |
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| 0:56.1 | Bonus episodes new one coming up soon |
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| 1:03.2 | Thanks everybody. |
| 1:05.7 | News this week, first off, the first new immersive video film |
| 1:11.0 | for Vision Pro. |
| 1:12.4 | They announced this a few weeks ago and now it's finally available. |
| 1:14.6 | It's basically a sizzle reel video of some sort celebrating the |
| 1:18.8 | MLS championship series game last season. So that's the best way to say it is it's five minutes showing something that happened six months ago. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, and it's cool I guess but I think it underscores some of the problems or just how early we are in the lifespan of |
| 1:35.2 | immersive video on Vision Pro. So I've watched it. It's five minutes, it's quick cuts between |
| 1:40.0 | different aspects of like MLS games and the locker room and it's kind of the |
| 1:44.7 | exact opposite of what I'd want from an immersive video on Vision Pro just because of |
| 1:48.9 | how quickly it cuts between different scenes how fast-paced it is. It really comes across as more of a |
| 1:54.1 | sizzle reel than an actual like narrative video that, because what I want from an |
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