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Jun 6, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Yesterday was the biggest day for Apple since the launch of the iPhone

• iOS17
• Vision Pro
• Spatial Computing

Here's a recap of everything that went down at #WWDC23 Image
1. Vision Pro is here

• Cost: $3,499
• 7x as much as Meta Quest 3

Listen to the crowd react to the price lol

2. No controllers necessary

To quote Tim Cook, "it's the first Apple product you look through, not at."

And you do it all through your voice, eyes, and touch

Pretty wild tech
3. It's definitely going to be a work-first product

Most of the first shots Apple showed of the Vision Pro in use were work related

Coolest feature is you can synch with you Macbook just by looking at it

4. EyeSight is huge

The worst part about Meta headsets are they isolate you from the rest of the world

Apple made an exterior screen that shows your eyes so you can still have a connection to the outside world

Kinda creepy but it works
5. Other cool stuff

Beyond the Vision Pro, there were plenty of big iOS 17 updates

Most important: FaceTime Voicemail

freakin finally ImageImage
6. NameDrop

Loved this one

You can share contact info, files, or photos by simply bringing your iPhones or Apple Watch near someone else's Image
7. AI for Autocorrect

Duck yeah

AI helps learn your spelling habits so it can suggest actually useful words and not...ducking Image
8. Journaling App

Apple is dropping a dedicated journaling app instead of making us scrawl our deepest darkest secrets in the notes app

uses photos, workouts, and other interactions to help you build a daily habit ImageImage
9. Standby mode

A new feature that turns your idle iPhone lock screen into a helpful smart display

can show things like weather, photos, calendar, sports scores

could see this coming for the Amazon Echo or Google Nest Hub eventually ImageImageImage
10. And lastly, "Hey Siri" is now just "Siri"

RIP to anyone whose name sounds remotely like Siri ImageImage
And that's a wrap.

Vision Pro feels like it could be a massive flop or define the next 10 years of technological innovation

Either way, we want one

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