Apple's WWDC keynote ended with one more thing
that took up almost half the length of the live stream. I'm Riley, this is TechLinked,
and this is the Vision Pro, Apple's long rumored headset
that Tim Cook is a little too excited about.
The Mixed Reality headset starts at $3,500,
but it'll cost more if you wear glasses because you'll apparently have to buy
prescription lens inserts for the crime of being born into a weak genetic line.
I messed up and already had a kid. Apple is telling me that was a mistake.
The Vision Pro features a higher than 4K micro OLED display
for each eye and audio pods for spatial audio.
Apparently the pods match the sound to your room's features
and materials using audio ray tracing,
which is totally real and will definitely affect your ears frame rate.
So make sure you get NVIDIA's DLSS hearing aids.
That will stop the pain. The headset contains a buttload of cameras and sensors
so you can control it with just your eyes and hands.
Take 3D pictures and record 3D videos with spatial audio.
Now the only thing stopping you from making the immersive sex tape of your dreams
is convincing a human being to sleep with you while you're wearing what looks like a pair of,
albeit very nice, ski goggles. If you'd rather not be reminded
that you probably look like a dork, environments will allow you to block out the outside world
while still allowing you to see people when they get close to you.
Which is never. I'm so alone. To see whether this is really happening.
Are you doing this? That's why you never let people get close to you.
And those people will be able to see your eyes projected onto the exterior screen,
which I can imagine will both help and hamper social interactions.
Like your eyes are gonna be this removed from your face.
The device is kept secure with optic ID which recognizes your iris.
So no one can see all the videos of you failing to convince people to sleep
with you while you wear your Vision Pro. It's hard enough as is.
Hey, I have a proposition for you.
Apple also made some major Mac announcements today, including a brand new 15 inch MacBook Air.
Apparently it's the world's best 15 inch laptop. And I believe that because a man apparently named
John Ternus said it twice in three minutes.
He's no Craig Federighi, but he's doing his best. That's what matters.
I'm cheering for the turn. To be fair, it'll have the power of an M2 chip,
two extra inches of screen real estate, and yet, according to Apple,
will still achieve up to 18 hours of battery life.
This is a feat a Windows laptop hasn't achieved since that time hell froze over.
Because it hasn't, it's never happened.
Apple is also refreshing their Mac Studio lineup with their brand new M2 Ultra chip.
They developed without any CIA brainwashing at all.
Some LSD though. Probably because it's just two M2 Macs chips
smushed together. And you're not gonna believe this, but Apple says the Ultra is twice as fast as the Macs.
All for a low price of $4,000 if you wanted in the Mac Studio that is.
But why buy that when you can buy the new Mac Pro
with the same chip, but more Thunderbolt ports and six PCIe Gen 4 slots
in the same Swiss cheese chassis you know and love.
According to the presentation, if you put six video IO cards in the Mac Pro,
you can ingest 24 4K camera feeds and encode them to ProRes in real time.
Why would you do that? You better think of a reason quick, otherwise you're gonna look very foolish
for spending at least $7,000 on a new Mac Pro. You don't even work with video.
You're an air conditioning technician. What were you thinking?
HVACs don't need VACs. And Apple also announced major updates to all their OSes.
iOS 17 will let you customize a contact poster
that other iPhone users will see when you call them, opening up a prime new avenue for trolling.
Apple introduced live voicemail, which is basically Pixel phone's call screening,
but better because you get to keep the voicemail after.
Great for spam message collectors. Also, Apple is putting transformer language models
into their auto correct and dictation features to make their results more accurate
and personalized to you. We put LLMs in your keyboard.
I'm sure this will go fine. For iPadOS, Apple decided to skip over
how Craig Federighi can somehow apparently harness the force
so they could focus on what we really care about, widgets.
And when Craig was done talking about widgets on iPad, he came back to introduce macOS Sonoma
so he could finally dive deep into what users really wanna see, widgets,
including widgets for Apollo for Reddit, which would be great to use until the Reddit API costs
shut the app down. Too soon.
The biggest announcement, however, was that Apple remembered about video games.
Sonoma has a new game mode that prioritizes game performance like Windows does,
but sleeker. More brush dilumia.
It's just better in some way. They even brought Hideo Kojima on
to announce death stranding for Mac and got him to encourage other developers
to also bring their games to the Mac, presumably using Apple's new game porting toolkit
that will make porting easier.
This, it's happening. Perhaps coincidentally, or perhaps not crossover a third-party software
that allows Windows applications to run on macOS, also announced DirectX 12 support.
Apple's serious about AR, Apple's serious about gaming now, what's next?
A tech news roundup show? Please don't. Come at me, Tim Cook.
No, he scares me. Confession time, everybody.
There's only four quick bits, but that's because the front half was a bigger slice of beef cake than Dwayne Johnson.
He's... What was that, Riley?
He's in the fast movies. Is that Dwayne Johnson? Oh, I'm Dwayne the Rock.
That was Hobbs? I haven't seen any of those. Microsoft has revealed it is ending support for Cortana
on Windows 10 and 11 later this year. This comes merely a week after the announcement
of Windows Copilot, their new AI assistant powered by Chachi BT, who's frankly hotter.
For some reason though, Cortana will still be available in the Outlook and Teams mobile apps as punishment.
To be fair, Chachi BT is a better representation
of Halo's Cortana than Microsoft's Cortana.
I mean, Microsoft's original attempt wasn't even insane. It just made users feel that way, which...
An insider at Google has leaked what they claim are the specs for Google's upcoming Tensor G3 chip
inside the upcoming Pixel 8 and 8 Pro.
Why? Maybe they live for the thrill of such things.
They didn't explain that to Android authority, but they did say the G3 would have
an elusive nine-core configuration,
four little Cortex A510s, four mid-sized Cortex A715s,
and a single Cortex X3 to bring the number of cores
to an odd number. It feels so wrong. And maybe there's something to that,
because apparently it doesn't even match the performance of last year's Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
on Geekbench. No Nacor?
That's not a word. I don't know Nacor.
Finance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and its founder, Changpeng Zhao,
are being sued by the SEC over allegedly mishandling funds.
Why does that sound so familiar? Anyway, the commission levied 13 charges against the firm,
including commingling and diverting customer assets to an entity called Sigma Chain that is owned by Zhao.
Sounds like bad news for FTX. I mean, Binance.
Sorry, that was a freedian slip.
And several organizations have been affected by a mass hack
with the personal data of employees from BBC,
British Airways, and others being stolen due to a hack of their payroll services provider.
But that hack itself is a symptom of a vulnerability
in the widely used Move It file transfer tool.
The government of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, that's its full title, was also hacked,
potentially compromising the personal information of citizens.
Nova Scotian should take solace in being able to buy a home
for less than a million dollars.
You think you have it bad? And you should take solace knowing we'll be back
on Wednesday with more tech news. Everything's gonna be fine.
Just hold on till there's more tech news. That's what it's all about.