I have seen a number of stores in the UK, US and Netherlands got big chunks of stock in the past weeks (via https://rpilocator.com/). Obviously it sells out super quick so you need to be following their stock notifications (and make sure you follow their prerequisites as a lot of stores require you to have accounts that have purchase history to weed out the scalpers).
It kinda makes sense. Nobody else is doing AR/VR in a terribly interesting way. The Quest is cool, but pretty lame for anything except playing rhythm games, PSVR is more of the same but hella expensive.
I think all the other players WANT VR to take off, but haven't yet made a truly compelling offering that attracts anything but nerds. Apple has been forced to step in early to encourage the market to develop. Just like the others this first version will be early adopters, nerds and developers only but Apple will make it MORE compelling (unlike Meta who made their "pro" model less compelling) for the mass markets with future iterations because that is just what Apple does.
on of my favourite books is "Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big" by Bo Burlingham. It's worth a read if this is something that interests you.
I don't think this is something most "normal" people will do. However, I can see use cases in industry where grabbing a quick photo of some equipment etc might be useful, or in sports where for example cyclists could have a heads up display and use the camera to capture a beautiful view they discover.
As a parent myself, the idea that someone would stop what they are doing to put on goggles to take a photo seems crazy. You would miss the moment. The only reason I use my phone for most photos over a DSLR or Mirrorless is because the phone is right in your pocket and instantly available at all times. I'm pretty sure the newer iPhones already have lidar sensors don't they?
> - Everything trying to look like a smartphone app, no matter the viewing device. I have a high resolution screen and a high precision pointing device in front of me. Why are half the webpages and many apps presenting buttons the size of texas?
You're making a very broad assumption here that everyone is like you. The fact is, they aren't. Big click targets are important for accessibility (if you want to read more, theres a pretty good article on the topic here: https://ishadeed.com/article/clickable-area/)
I think that "hybrid" is the worst of both worlds. If you attend the office you spend most of your time on video calls to people working from home. Need to run a workshop? You still have to plan it in a hybrid way using Miro and video conferencing for the couple of people who will make an excuse not to come into the office.
erm... reduce the number of traumatic, life-threatening situations by taking away the guns? Get your police force under control and stop trying to control peoples minds and bodies could be a good start?
If this interests you theres a great book called "Touching the Rock" by John Hull which has a similar real-life account of going blind. There is also a virtual experience based on the same book for the Meta Quest which is pretty interesting.
I replied about this on another comment but have a look at "We Do Solar" their product is designed for installing on balconies but I guess there is nothing to stop you installing it where ever you like! (You might just need to add a bit of a frame to support them?)
Not sure if you saw but there's a great little German startup called "We Do Solar" who produce solar panels specifically for use on Balconies. My house has a flat roof and we'll be putting solar up there in the near future but I also plan to get panels for the balcony on our second floor as it runs the full width of the house and should add quite a chunk of generation capacity (downside is it's west facing so will only really provide power from the afternoon until the sun goes down).
Still rocking my iPhone 11 Pro. Unless it has a catastrophic failure I'll probably struggle through until the iPhone 16 comes out. For the most part it works fine (although the battery is getting a little ropey!)
I'm in the same situation. I've been using a Prusa Mini for two years and it's a really awesome machine. I've made some tweaks along the way but I get consistent, high-quality prints in a reliable machine. I never have trouble with prints failing to stick or filament sticking or any of that stuff. I'm in the market for a bigger print bed at the moment and I want to stick with Prusa but the XL is too expensive and the MK4 seems like it might not be quite big enough for my needs. I'm looking at the Elegoo Neptune range (they have some seriously big printers that are cheaper than the Prusa Mini!). I have serious doubts about the quality though at that point... it's just too damn cheap for the size.
My 2010 MacBook Pro still lives on my network running as a print server for my old laser printer that no longer works with modern OS's due to the lack of 64 bit drivers. I'm looking into installing HomeAssistant and possibly PiHole as well in the near future since it's way overkill for only running a print server.
I've been daily driving various Macs since the release of the Mac Mini in 2023. I love the "it just works" promise of the hardware but honestly I'm not terribly excited about the software these days, especially all the cloud stuff. Once my current hardware snuffs it there is a very high chance that a Framework laptop will be my next machine.
These sensors are becoming increasingly popular in the home automation space, replacing traditional PIR sensors because, unlike PIR sensors they can still detect someone even if they're sitting relatively still (just breathing can be enough to trigger one!). I just wish my office would add them, the lights are always turning off on me.
Just remember, a junior is someone who has little work experience, NOT someone who isn't qualified.
If you hire someone that knows the work but just needs experience you will find yourself working with someone who is engaged and enthusiastic. If you hire the latter you will spend all of your time holding their hand.
If this was me there would be about 50 entries of me opening the fridge door, staring for a minute and then closing it without taking anything out (also a fair amount of walking into rooms and forgetting why I was there).
I use Siri dozens of times a day via my headphones (mostly for music control) and Alexa at home to control home automation, play music and occasionally answer my stupid questions.
This is horrible, in NL we have the "international version" of Alexa and we don't get any of this crap, just a basic voice assistant that can play music and control smart home devices.
I saw a demo the other day of a guy who had hooked Chat GPT up to some kind of voice assistant. The main benefit was that it supported chaining commands so you could say "turn on the light, then set the volume to 50% and then tell me the weather" and the device could parse it all and do the things you wanted in sequence. I can't find the video now but it was super impressive.
This bought back a lot of memories for me as well, I used to work for a hosting provider in the early 2000's and we had dozens of these things both in our data centre and internally for development purposes. I hadn't thought about them for years but the second I saw this article title I had flashbacks!