If you own an iPhone 15 Pro, there’s no good reason not to start capturing spatial videos this year — like, say, this holiday season — to record any sort of moments that feel like something you might want to experience as “memories” with a Vision headset in the future, even if you don’t plan to buy the first-generation Vision Pro next year.
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Nothing you’ve ever viewed on a screen, however, can prepare you for the experience of watching these spatial videos, especially the ones you will have shot yourself, of your own family and friends. They truly are more like memories than videos. The spatial videos I experienced yesterday that were shot by Apple looked better — framed by professional photographers, and featuring professional actors. But the ones I shot myself were more compelling, and took my breath away.
During the shoot, I did my best to put one piece of sushi the chef held up to me in the foreground, and in the final result, I got exactly the effect I was hoping for. The depth is interesting, and not overbearing or jarring. Instead, the scene looks exactly as I remember it, complete with that lifelike depth. That’s not possible with traditional videography.
Apple is set to challenge the European Union's decision to put all of the App Store into the bloc's new digital antitrust list, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The iPhone maker's appeal is still in draft form and could change before the Nov. 16 deadline to file challenges at the EU's General Court, according to the report.
iOS 17.2 has a new public framework called “Managed App Distribution.” While our first thought was that this API would be related to MDM solutions for installing enterprise apps (which is already possible on iOS), it seems that Apple has been working on something more significant than that.
Apple uses this new action-packed 60-second ad to tout features such as 5x optical zoom on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, ProRes video, Log encoding, and more.
While United Airlines' customers are able to engage across a range of platforms and timeframes, for the carrier's chief customer officer Linda Jojo many of the advances with airline apps centre around their ability to support ‘day of travel’ functionality.
Developed by Ben McCarthy, Obscura 4 brings you a whole host of real-time camera tools and photo editing tools, but it's the design of the app that I enjoy the most. Sort of like using a manual camera, there's an old-school mode dial that allows you to change the intensity of different effects in real-time, whereas in rival apps you'd find simple sliders.
The Sony Creators’ App allows for wireless transfers and remote controls, yes, but also a handful of new features, including cloud back-ups, bulk transfers, and even shooting those remote selfies with eye detection.
As fun as Finity can be, it can be even more infuriating…in a good way…kind of.
When your hands are wet, pressing a button on the capacitive touch screen is nigh-impossible. Double Tap circumvents that limitation. [...] I’m not saying Double Tap is the primary preferred input method of the watch, perhaps it’s not even a daily thing for me, but it is a convenience that I take advantage of, a few times a week. That’s nice.
The iPhone selfie camera is now so good that it is perhaps too good. On social media, people slather themselves in beauty filters; remote workers go through entire Zoom meetings forgetting that their and others’ skin might be blurred and brightened by the software. You can upload your face to a generative-AI tool and, in seconds, get a dozen glossy professional headshots of yourself, wearing clothes you don’t even own. The new Apple camera, by contrast, offers a cold dose of reality: You have blackheads! And acne! And frown lines!
In an email to Insider, Apple acknowledged that a 2018 agreement with Amazon prevents other brands from buying ads on the e-commerce site for a few specific Apple-related brand queries. The company added that third-party brands are still able to buy ads on Amazon for generic keywords containing an Apple name. Marketplace Pulse's Kaziukenas said that means brands can buy ads on general terms, like an "iPhone 15 pro case," but not for specific queries like "iPhone" on Amazon's marketplace.
Apple's goal was to create the best possible customer experience, and other companies are free to do the same, Apple's representative added.
I know I am living at the equator, but it's November already, and it is supposed to be the rain season, and not the hot-as-heck season that I am sweating through today.
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