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Nice. It would be good if Apple could find the time to improve the readability of the white text on green bubbles too. edit: it seems that asking Apple to follow their own accessibility guidelines isn't popular on HN :-(
Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
Man I miss the touch bar. Never got why people hated it so much
I did hate the butterfly keyboard that was introduced at the same time. Probably Apple's biggest hardware mistake of the past 15 years or so.
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And their upcoming smart glasses are the best UX for almost everything they showed the user holding up her phone for. I read their glasses when taking video or pics the lense will light up and or flash more prominently then Metas. Maybe that will help the whole privacy issue and also it's not Meta (do love my Meta or smart glasses as a whole will ditch Metas for Apple quickly as both pair of Metas broke & there's no…
Same for me! Both pairs of Metas are now inoperative because I can't get them back to factory reset. Once you pull that little blue tab out of them when they're new, it's GAME OVER.
Seems like everyone skipped over this part, but optical controls for motorized wheelchairs is a cool idea (at least to me, maybe that's an old idea). Full VR hasn't done well, but it does continue to make me wonder if there's a market for a stripped and slimmed device. I'd maybe be interested in a device that does optical controls if it fit in regular-sized glasses. I'd be super interested if it had a HUD system (eve…
Seems like a pretty strong indicator that AR glasses are still being worked on, this definitely feels like one of those features Apple ships to refine before the proper hardware is ready.
The device is large and makes the user look weird and non-present, which are net negatives.
The only benefit of the AR is showing the directional arrows, but they could get the same thing with much less weird looking non-prescription glasses with arrows sharpied on them. More realistically, anyone really using for mobility probably develops muscle memory for which direction to look to go where and then they don't even need that. At that point it's just a really expensive, really clunky camera.
Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.
I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.
One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
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That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.
But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.
I thought you were being cynical, but yeah the ToS basically says that as well.
Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
Man I miss the touch bar. Never got why people hated it so much
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Another fun thing is if you use an extension you can fast-forward through the advertisements too. For some channels I use around 3.5x playback speed.
Ublock origin blocks the ads entirely on Firefox.