Five Pack

The keynote this year was packed with updates across the Apple ecosystem, but let’s dive in and take a look at some of the changes from the perspective of Five Pack co-founder, Jerry Beers:

"First, I want to point out that Apple didn’t open with a big announcement about . In fact, they were a good portion of the way through the presentation before they focused on it.

But along the way, they did point out places where AI was used to make features better, and how AI has been deeply integrated into the OS and Apple’s apps for a long time. And they did focus on privacy and the fact that much of the AI processing is done on-device. But more on that in another post...

There were several changes announced for visionOS. I didn’t see any huge announcements here, but lots of incremental improvements. This makes sense for the stage the Vision Pro is at.

📸 We did see a pretty impressive feature where you can view your 2D photos in 3D. This is an example of AI being integrated into other features. AI will analyze a photo, determine what the depth map should look like, and generate a different version for the left and right eyes to make it look like a 3D photo.

🏠 We also got new gestures for showing the Home Screen and Control Center. This makes the interaction feel more natural, where it’s just reading what you’re doing with your hands instead of requiring you to push a button.

🖥 Some updates are coming later this year: the virtual display when mirroring a Mac can wrap around you as a panoramic widescreen and ecosystem support for spatial and immersive video coming to Final Cut Pro and products from BlackMagic.

There were a couple of big updates that I didn’t see in the events, but that are highlighted on Apple’s website:

1. visionOS 1 would allow you to put the device into guest mode. The guest would then do a short hands and eyes setup so eye tracking would work. But once they took the device off, their info was deleted, so if you wanted them to use it again, they had to go through that setup again. New in visionOS 2, the device will save the last guest’s data so they don’t have to repeat the setup. This is really helpful if you want to show things to the same guest over and over (maybe a spouse or roommate). I would still like to see named profiles for sharing a device.

2. While Apple announced a feature to use your iPhone from your Mac, they didn’t announce that feature for the Vision Pro. The website has maybe the next best thing: the Vision Pro can act as an AirPlay receiver, so you’ll be able to mirror your iPhone to the Vision Pro and see the screen. I would guess that it’s not interactive though.

I’m still very optimistic about the Vision Pro as a platform and happy with the improvements Apple announced for it. I’ll keep you updated if I find any surprises."

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