Episode 540

540: The Points Don’t Matter

Vision vs. vision, AR privacy considerations, a good tech week in the Liss household, and a not-so-good one for the Arments.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

June 22, 20232h 1m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Good SwiftUI days
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro
  - Privacy considerations (via Brandon Jones)
    - WWDC 2023 #10096: Build Great Games for Spatial Computing
  - Designing for Spatial Input
    - 6m5s
    - 7m8s
  - Vergence & accommodation in eyesight (via Christopher Masto)
    - Vergence-accommodation conflict
    - 4m0s
  - visionOS SDK is out
  - John Ternus on external GPUs on The Talk Show
- Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID & iCloud logins
- macOS 14 Sonoma
- iOS 17
  - Marco (& Casey) get a present
  - Crosswords in Apple News+
- Apple [kinda] explains why third-party Watch faces aren’t supported
- Apple’s new beta install system
- DPReview has been purchased Gear Patrol
  - Ars Technica
Safari 17 Link Tracking Protection
DockKit
#askatp:
- Having seen Vision Pro, are we more enthusiastic about Apple’s automotive adventures? (via Nick)
- Do we use any sort of app uninstaller? (via markblndr)
  - LaunchControl
- The age-old debate about using separate vaults for 2FA gets rekindled by Dave Copeland
  - Sebastian Cohnen clarifies
  - The real threat, as per Drew
Post-show: Casey’s happy technology week, and Marco’s not-so-happy technology week.
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