Live data from Hacker News

Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

9to5mac.com

41–50 of 205 posts

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want a mini game as I chop cucumbers. And a wall of my achievements that’s shared with anyone in proximity.

Distracting people with mini games while they're holding a knife sounds like a bad idea.

EU is coming up with a consent popup to fix this situation. It will flash a hazard warning and will turn on haptic feedback till you drop the knife.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#42
From a developers perspective, Apple’s computer vision frameworks are already top-notch. I’m wondering how AI could further enhance the experience on the Apple Vision Pro. The greatest deficiency seems to me currently to lie in ideas for how this technology can be used sensibly.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want a mini game as I chop cucumbers. And a wall of my achievements that’s shared with anyone in proximity.

Distracting people with mini games while they're holding a knife sounds like a bad idea.

Why does it have to be a "distracting" experience? What if the game was showing you where to cut to get uniform slices and grading the uniformity of your cuts? Then you'd be focused on the activitiy at hand while still enjoying that sweet sweet gamified dopamine hit.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#45

Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.

What do you want instead?

After social media depleted the dopamine receptors, now time to give in the final punch :D.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#46
post #31
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally for me: A real smart assistant that knows all the context, calendar invites, messages, photos from using Apple products for many years. Alternatively: Siri that can reliably turn lights on and off again.

At this point I'd be satisfied with a Siri is that just a literal link to a command line. It's horribly useless as it is now, 80% or less accuracy on basic things.

[deleted]

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#47

Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming were not at all what I wanted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#49
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#50
post #49
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.
Post reply on HN