Surgery is still very far away from true automation. But diagnostics, especially in pathology. A scanner is set to replace a whole pathology department and instead transition to one head of pathology just confirming it is working.

It will shoot you but will also remove the bullet and stitch you back up.

This robot required two surgeons to operate. I had surgery a few months ago and my surgeon used a robot.

I think a lot of people think automation is coming for the factory line jobs. While that may be true, some of the lower hanging fruit, especially in terms of cost savings is specialized medicine. If a robot can replace one doctor making $800k that is a heck of an upgrade

They're conceptually similar but measuring different things. The dot projector in FaceID acts as a sort of guide. The dots are projected in a grid and you can use the distortion of the dots on the projected surface to interpret the shape of the user's face. The LiDAR sensors measure time of flight which allows it to determine the specific distance of objects relative to the sensor. The sensor used for Face ID can tell you that it's detected an object but LiDAR can tell you exactly how far away it is. That property makes LiDAR extremely useful for AR where you need to know how far away a given surface is in order to render something at the appropriate size with the correct perspective distortion applied.

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This guy works in marketing

This delay is almost certainly due to issues arising from using the M2 chip. Apple has (reportedly) chosen to use the M2 as opposed to a purpose-designed chip and power efficiency is very likely to be horrendous. All current standalone headsets (e.g. Pico 4, Quest 2, Quest Pro, Pimax Crystal, et.al.) use ARM's custom-designed first generation XR2 chips (or the XR2+ variant).

Apple is reportedly using the M2 which is not designed to be anywhere near that power efficient. Apple can't just "add a bigger battery" to fuel the M2--adding weight makes the headset heavier and uncomfortable.

The engineering challenges stem mainly from battery technology along with the immaturity of software. I have little doubt that Apple will do well on the software front, but their decision to use the M2 betrays quite a bit of hubris IMHO. I'd expect a short 30-60 minutes of use (max) before needing to be recharged.

Folks need to understand why Apple & Meta are working in this area--they see AR/VR/XR as the next computing platform. Meta is the industry leader for a reason--they've invested billions in R&D, employ most of the talent, and have been pushing the industry forward. And even then, the best consumer AR kit they could produce is Quest Pro with a BOM of ~$900 and a retail price of $1500. Apple's device will almost certainly retail ~$2000-$3000 and the fact that they still can't make it work satisfactorily shows how far behind they've fallen.

Don't do this. Heavily increases the risk of multi-modality treatment.

I mean, same thing was said about RISC CPUs for well over a decade before we got the M1..

This isn’t shipping for a long time, unless Apple has some breakthrough in input methods. Current methods are terrible, they need something new.

Well they bought oculus too so not really creating a new product, just explanding on it

I’m glad if this helps with esophageal cancers. It’s my understanding that they have to really tear up your throat and associated anatomies to treat those cancers. It would be so amazing for patient quality of life if these cancers could be treated with out as much collateral damage

A power house to run notes and your phone. Hopefully I’m wrong but right now they are having issues with support on unity.

If it similar tech to what they have been using for face unlock on phones?

No im referring to them building our an actually tv set and h Them released what we have today a set top box. Prior to that the rumors were Apple would release a TV sef.

I have a 4090 and a index hooked up in my living room but I play on the quest 2 daily instead, it's just less hassle and works anywhere, in whatever room, in bed.

It's like I have a wireless index with a quest 2 and air link, my only gripe is the controllers

Depth sensing is used to properly spatialize digital content for AR. You can try and parse depth information using raw camera imagery and ML but it's...not great. With the Quest Pro you need to manually tell the headset where your walls are while Apple's ARKit can use LiDAR to automatically map out your floor plan.

Is it the San Francisco robot?

> Samsung had gear vr

Samsung also had a WMR headset, in the form of the Odyssey+.

LiDAR would help place objects more accurately in an AR/MR setting

That's a good point, but many of the reports I side apple point to them having thousands of projects on the go, some even designed to weed out leekers, empty projects to explore non commercial ideas and collect patents.

I would be suprised if the 28 billion is spread amongst hundreds of real products and metas 10 billion is focused around just a handful of vr/ar specific things

What does it need lidar for??

This “expert” analyst has been wrong about this for over two years. They literally just share rumors their friends that work at Foxconn tells them and this is tiresome. I imagine Apple is trolling him

>the apps device will probably be twice the price or more with better specs

If the specs we've heard are accurate it's looking to closer to ten times the price. It's primarily an AR/MR device so we're looking at an extremely high resolution screen, pancake lenses, eye tracking, a handful of high-res cameras with LiDAR companions all powered by an M-series chip. The closest competitor is Meta's Quest Pro which has a lower resolution panel, one color camera, no LiDAR and comes in at a $1.5k MSRP. An optimistic price point for Apple's headset would be $2.5k but I think it'll end up being a $2999 MSRP (intentionally pricing out Average Joe for this first iteration).