Yes I know..........
Yes I know..........
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In the article, it says you only use the full 10-bits when you're doing heavily intensive mental processing.
So that's your maximum when you're red-lining your mental engine.
If your mind is idling, you most likely won't be using that many "levels of processing" or "bits of processing."
So it does seem to scale.
IMO, as a simple analogy, when you're idling while you're awake; your mind is most likely only using 1-bit.
Your mind will only go down to 0-bits when you sleep and need to recover.
However, as the immediate problem that you need to solve with your mind increases in difficulty or complexity, the number of bits you have access to will go with the mental load needed.
Ergo the bit registers in your mind opens up with the average person having 10-bits available.
Probably folks with super smart & well developed brains would probably have access to a few more bits than the average person.
Some persons brain might be in the range of 11-16 bits.
Depends on the person and how their mind is developed.
Smarter people & people with better developed brains would have access to more & more bits to process more information at a single time
This isn't representative of what knowledge you know, but just how fast your mind can process and how much info it can process.
Knowledge Depth is seperate from Mental Processing Speed & Volume, so please don't try to mix that up.
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Looks like Apple might be in the process of halting production of its Apple Vision Pro as they don't seem to be able to sell them. I think the idea behind them is not a bad idea, but I think this is a situation where pricing them as they did, they put themselves in a situation where they prevented them from taking off due to them being out of consideration of most people. Being already a niche product in the first place, the pricing certainly didn't help matters and effectively never even stood a chance.
kotaku.com
Report: Apple Has Halted Production Of Its Colossally Expensive Vision Pro VR
The $3,500 mixed-reality headsets haven't proven exactly a barnstormer
kotaku.com
They looked quite goofy
They’ve sold around four hundred thousand, including this 1TB model which has transported me to the virtual shore of a photogrammetric simulation of Trillium Lake with Mount Hood in the distance—replete with ambient audio from the integrated audiopods or my AirPods Pro 2 (USB-C)—as a virtual text input box floats above and follows my Magic Keyboard with Touch ID (USB-C) which is intelligently filtered into the virtual environment along with my hands and arms.
Watching movies and videos on a giant 3D OLED screen is incredible and arraying windows and 3D models in physical space is extraordinarily futuristic. Photos can be converted to 3D within a few seconds, and third-party software can convert any video into 3D, either in realtime or through prerendering if you want a better result. Immersive 3D videos are even more impressive and are surely the future of cinema. You can also shoot your own immersive videos and photos. OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive have some impressive content developed exclusively for the Vision Pro. The virtual keyboard is terrible, which is why I bought a physical one, but the eye- and handtracking are incredible.
I bought this Vision Pro (US$3,900) with the official case ($200) and battery clip ($50) plus two years of AppleCare+ ($500) barely used on Swappa for $2,578 and the AirPods Pro 2 ($250 through Apple or $189 through Amazon) new for $154 on Black Friday (along with an extra pair so that I don’t have to wait for one pair to charge), paying full price only for the Magic Keyboard ($150) and Magic Trackpad ($130). I may also add an M4 Mac Mini (starting at $600, or $500 with a .edu email) since it fits in the Vision Pro case and enables the impressive Mac Ultrawide Display. iPhones and iPads can also be mirrored to the Vision Pro.
As Tim Cook said, this is technology of the future made available today.
yeah there's no doublt it's a powerful and high quality device - it's just not affordable for many people and seems to lack a killer app to entice people to platform even if there was lower spec/lower price model (which was rumoured at one pointed)
other people will go on about the apple tax and frankly some of their prices are ridiculous (hello mac pro and wheels for said mac pro)
Kind of a drop in the bucket when considered with other similar devices. The tech itself is nice, but it's kind of difficult to convince people when it's so far out of reach for most people, hence why it's not been successful. And that was always going to be a difficult sell from the outset. It's a niche further divided by its high cost.
There are plenty of examples throughout history of revolutionary hardware that never caught on for whatever reason. This is just the latest.
Development is still fully underway on the next versions (a new Pro model and a cheaper alternative). People are confusing the possible early discontinuation of this model with the cancellation of the Vision line altogether, which is certainly not happening.
VisionOS development is ongoing, as well.
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Ok, even so, it sold much less than it was expecting, given the price and the backlog of unsold devices. Even if they were to hypothetically continue with a new Pro version and a new lower-end version, it seems highly optimistic to me that they would go through with it given how the first one sold. I think what they should have originally done was release the lower-end version first, then ramp up to a Pro version. This would also have given developers time to develop apps.
Hard drives are cheaper.
Yes I know.... But I was making some movie disks to watch away from home, the faster burns didn't turn out right, doing it again at a slower speed worked for all the disks.
A new Pro version has reportedly been delayed but will inevitably appear eventually as technology improves. There's no chance of Apple permanently abandoning extended reality. Before that, a refresh of the existing model with an M5 chip and Apple Intelligence may appear late this year or next along with a $2,000 version with reduced features.
No doubt, and I'm not saying they shouldn't. I was just linking to the story that they may have gotten wrong. But you can't deny that it wasn't a risky gamble on Apple's part. Pricing it as they did only further divided the fragile niche it was trying to create.
What about the look, to me they just looked very goofy. Surely they could have made them look a bit more attractive.
They remind me of the TV mini series V.
haven't paid much attention vr headsets have you.
by their nature they're all going to look goofy because there's not much you can really down with a big lump of electronics etc sitting on your face.
Augmented reality smartglasses are a smaller, lighter, cheaper, stealthier alternative.
I preordered the $600 XREAL One Pros (shipping in March) which have dual 1080p, 120Hz, 600-nit OLED microdisplays and a 57° viewfield with integrated audio and 3DOF tracking within sunglasses weighing 87 grams (less than half the weight of a smartphone).
I preordered the $600 XREAL One Pros (shipping in March) which have dual 1080p, 120Hz, 600-nit OLED microdisplays and a 57° viewfield with integrated audio and 3DOF tracking within sunglasses weighing 87 grams (less than half the weight of a smartphone).
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