Category: Apple

absolutely not

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This is a render of Apple’s soon-to-be-announced virtual reality/mixed reality headset, based on all the rumors that are currently swirling around that virtual toilet known as the Internet. I can’t vouch for a single one of those rumors, let alone this visual interpretation of those rumors. But if this is indeed true (and we’ll know soon enough), and considering the rumored price of US$3,500, there is absolutely no way in hell I would ever consider buying something like this. I thought Google Glass was bad at the time, but this mythical Apple device makes Google Glass look like a sublime act of engineering.

I’m not sure what Tim Cook is attempting by throwing this out into the world, but nothing good will come of it. Absolutely. Nothing.

Link to full article: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/former-apple-exec-says-vr-headset-could-be-a-huge-flop-ar-glasses-still

clock tower — my photo notebook

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Taken at a local (to me) shopping mall named The Marketplace. There’s a roundabout with this tower right on the island.

This was taken with my iPhone 11. What I find interesting is how the sky nearest the left edge of the tower grows lighter and follows the edge. I don’t know if its an artifact of the iPhone’s camera and camera software, or that’s just the way the clouds and lighting were arranged behind the tower. I did increase the exposure by one stop in order to pick up plenty of light and detail on the side of the tower facing the viewer. Since this was taken early evening, with plenty of light, the camera had plenty of exposure range between the shadows and highlights without blowing anything out.