Vision Pro is almost here — we have the last minute details! (CultCast #629)
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Vision Pro goes on sale NEXT WEEK — we have all the last-minute details! We’re also talking about the strange new AI hardware from CES, AI-powered Siri coming at WWDC, and finally, is it worth it to buy expensive phone cables?
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This week’s stories:
Apple Vision Pro launches February 2, preorders start January 19 [Updated]
- Apple’s Vision Pro headset finally has a release date. Apple will accept preorders for Vision Pro in the United States starting Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. Pacific, the company said Monday.
- Steven Troughton-Smith on Mastodon
First Vision Pro ad harks back to classic iPhone Hello advert
- Apple’s fun new Get Ready video for the upcoming Vision Pro headset is clearly intended to ratchet up the hype for the spatial computing device scheduled for release in early February.
MacRumors: Apple 'Carefully Orchestrating' Vision Pro Reviews With Multiple Meetings
- Apple has a detailed plan for Apple Vision Pro reviews, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. YouTubers and members of the media selected for reviews will meet with Apple on January 16 for a hands-on experience, with a follow-up meeting to take place on January 23 to go over the device's features a second time.
Win a Pitaka iPhone 15 case that’s colorful, thin and incredibly durable
- We're giving away four iPhone 15 cases from Pitaka. Winners will get one of these: Sunset or Moonrise.
Ask AI-powered Rabbit R1 for anything (without touching an app)
- You can ask the new AI-powered Rabbit R1 gadget to do pretty much anything you’d normally do with some combination of apps on your smartphone, according to Rabbit’s fascinating keynote at CES 2024.
Wave of Apple Generative AI Tools on Track for WWDC Debut
- In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman reaffirmed and expanded upon previous comments related to Apple's plans to announce a series of new tools based on generative AI at WWDC as part of iOS 18, including a revamped version of Siri.
Cheap or Pricey: Which Charging Cables Last Longest?
- How many times have you left your phone plugged in overnight just to wake up and find that it hasn’t charged at all? It seems like a trivial thing, but when a charging cable fails, it can ruin your day.
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| 0:00.0 | So you know it seems like there's a big party going on these days everybody said what's your email address? Hey everybody else to email you |
| 0:08.1 | I don't have an email |
| 0:10.3 | What's this you know like that and you feel left out. You've been confused. It's too expensive or something. Well now good news is a computer so easy. |
| 0:17.0 | 10 minutes out of the box you're on to the internet. You're emailing everybody. You're part of the party. It's as easy as as you know licking a stamp. Hello and welcome the whole cast the best 30 plus minute apple conversation |
| 0:36.5 | you're gonna hear all week long I'm your host Airfinalizer join me today |
| 0:40.2 | you know you know him is the fair but unforgiving editor presiding over the |
| 0:44.7 | Coltrimac World Headquarters. But his former fellow inmates and cell block e know |
| 0:50.0 | him by a different name, Prison Lou. The Magic Editor of Cultivac, |
| 0:54.0 | Prison Lou is here. |
| 0:56.0 | No more tan shirt today, Louis? |
| 0:58.0 | Unforgiving is a very, very wrong. |
| 1:00.0 | I have so much forgiveness. Also with us, he always says the pen is mightier than the sword, but he also happens to keep several swords around the house, |
| 1:11.0 | almost in every room just in case Lewis Wallace discovers his location and |
| 1:14.7 | comes looking for him. A writer at Kolta Mac Griffin, June's is here. |
| 1:21.6 | Good evening. |
| 1:23.0 | You know, it's not just the swords. |
| 1:24.0 | You wouldn't think that a trumpet would be an effective |
| 1:27.0 | a home defense tool, but man, that bell, when it comes |
| 1:31.0 | tumbling down upon your head. |
| 1:33.2 | Oh, you hit him with it. |
| 1:35.2 | It leaves the mark, yeah. |
| 1:36.6 | I shot a piece of metal there. |
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