Thread by @dgriffinj0nes

This is the menu for Apple’s WWDC in-person event, breakfast and lunch:

Details on the Developer Center. It will be open from 9–6 on Sunday, and 7–9 on Monday morning.

Between the Platforms State of the Union and the Apple Design Awards (2:30–4:30), developers can take part in a meet-and-greet and pick one of three campus tours.

This morning, I checked in and toured the Developer Center. Here is my #WWDC22 experience:

You start by picking up some coffee and some donuts. I was told to wait around for a few minutes as people trick in for a Developer Center tour group of about ten people.

This is the lemon meringue:

You travel the center room by room. This is the first room, a testing center:

This is an AR testing room:

Hardware accessory testing room:

This is a back room, and you will NOT believe what they have sitting back here:

This is the WWDC20 jacket that was never distributed:

Visitors to the Developer Center can lock their belongings in these lockers:

An optical illusion. The Exit signs read “Exit” correctly, both ways, but they appear to be transparent glass.

They’re actually mirrors, but they look transparent at a glance!

This is a meeting room, with cameras in the walls, a big TV, the works. This is just one of several Developer Centers around the world.

And all of these rooms are named after OS X / macOS versions. The aforementioned conference room is El Capitan.

The tour is nearing the end. This is the control room of the Big Sur theater.

This one is for you, @caseyliss 😉

Walkthrough of the theater. The seats are very comfortable (if a bit narrow). The bottom of the seats line up with the arm rests when folded up, which has a pleasant look.

Still images of the theater.

Detail on the lighting rig in the ceiling.

The screen during a presentation.

Some more campus details:
• The fire extinguisher panel
• A picture of the famous Claris the dogcow easter egg, in the AR model of the campus
• A hose? This panel was locked
• Even the sidewalk panels outside the building use the San Francisco font

The swag:
• A light canvas bag
• Apple Face Masks, one S/M and M/L
• A set of magnetic pins. There are at least three different sets of pins that I have seen so far.
• Baseball cap, pictured below, bedazzled with pins
• Water bottle
• Moisturizing sun screen

Another campus easter egg: When you take a panorama of the Ring from the Visitor’s Center, the sun shade and the fish-eye lens effect looks looks like an eye!

And finally, I published all of this from my iPhone thanks to this lovely bench and sun shade outside the campus gates.

For the nerdiest of Apple nerds, even the corners of this bench are cut in a super-ellipse, rather than a straight radius.

That’s all for today—I’ll be back tomorrow documenting #WWDC22 from the developer’s perspective! Follow @cultofmac to find my live blog.

For everyone who read this whole thread, here’s One More Thing™:

If you see me tomorrow and say hello, I’ll be handing out exclusive TestFlight invitations to my secret Mac app in development 👀