In the era of so many digital summaries, I think long form print still has a place too. Here’s an article that my daughter, @kristnmerrilees, just wrote which traces the history of print at Columbia University and Barnard College:

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I had read that Sam wasn't going to be on stage at WWDC, but I still thought that chatGPT would get higher billing than it did. Then again, compared to OpenAI's recent news coverage ...

Robert, I think part of your brilliance is how you connect the dots across disparate lines of thinking and technologies. As such the more you put yourself out there, the more dots there will to connect. I think your “pay off” is non linear. What is being pitched to you is a linear payoff imo.

The fact that people are speculating that there might be an announcement about Apple Pencil interfacing with the @Apple Vision Pro illustrates an important fact: it's difficult to anticipate all that Apple might do with AVP given its resources, design and development teams and capacity for innovation. No one was talking about the Pencil as an input device for AVP three months ago that I recall. What else is Apple potentially working on for AVP that might similarly catch us off guard?

2026 for AVP 2?? That feels like a big gap to me in between versions. So I looked up the time between the current Meta Quest 3 headset and the Quest 2. Almost exactly three years. Maybe the first version of AVP was the developer version after all.

Leading edge vs bleeding. Innovation groups seem to be the ones who are most receptive to starting the pilot programs necessary to spread the word within a business or organization, secure funding, and socialize the idea of productivity from 3D apps, ie Spatial Computing. Apple will make this all easier as time goes on of course but for now efforts are best spent on those who already understand the 3D world but just want “more” than what Meta can provide.

⁦@kristnmerrilees⁩ wrote this!!

To your point, @apple isn’t going to leave AVP out on some island. Agreed that WWDC will bring it even more into the fold.

Increasing expectations that there will be a cheaper version available sooner than originally anticipated likely hasn’t helped sales either.

We will start to see more and more AVP coverage like this.

A good example of what I've been saying ... that Apple Vision Pro apps which take advantage of 3D will ultimately drive its success and adoption. Note that here you can see where the car is on the track itself in three dimensions. Way more powerful than just two.

@_LucasRizzotto I’ve been thinking about that too. My sense is that Apple may have thought that 3D UI would be too hard to get adoption around out of the gate. So I agree with the “consistency across the ecosystem” theory — I just think (hope?) it will be shorter term perhaps.

@thisismichaeld I think they are really impressive. A feeling of “presence” is difficult to achieve, but I feel they have already met the at bar. I was surprised when they improved so much with the OS updates. I had not anticipated that. What’s your take?

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I was glad to see this story. One of the longer-standing rumors going back years is that Apple’s headset might autocorrect for vision issues someday. Now we just need an easy-to-use guest mode!

@Scobleizer @SuEvison @stevewoz There’s a book by Steven Johnson called “How We Got to Now” —- it looks at the things we take for granted in our modern lives (e.g. refrigeration) and traces the origin story of each. You’re reminding us we need to think that way about our careers and lives too.

@jetscott @OwlchemyLabs Scott ... I'm not a gamer so can't comment on the tracking for such, but I do think that editing text on AVP needs improvement -- and presumably it needs to be through hand/eye tracking. I use siri in AVP, and sometimes feel like starting over is faster than fixing mistakes.