Last Week in AVP #27: First Use of Apple Vision Pro with a Brain Computer Interface, NVIDIA Humanoid Robotics Development with AVP, Disney+ New Immersive Environment and more!
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Synchron Announces First Use of Apple Vision Pro with a Brain Computer Interface (source)
Synchron, the brain-computer interface (BCI) company, today announced the world’s first-ever use of Apple Vision Pro, by one of the patients implanted with the Synchron brain computer interface.
BCI is a platform to re-connect people with injury or disease back to the fast-moving consumer technology landscape. Vision Pro is a powerful system, but it relies on the use of hand gestures to exert control over the UI. We are sending control signals directly from the brain to replace the need for hand gestures. We are moving towards a new Bluetooth standard for Human Computer Interactions that do not require touch or speech. This is a critical unmet need for millions of people with paralysis.
NVIDIA Accelerates Humanoid Robotics Development with Apple Vision Pro (source)
First, developers use Apple Vision Pro to capture a small number of teleoperated demonstrations. Then, they simulate the recordings in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and use the MimicGen NIM microservice to generate synthetic datasets from the recordings.
The developers train the Project GR00T humanoid foundation model with real and synthetic data, enabling developers to save time and reduce costs. They then use the Robocasa NIM microservice in Isaac Lab, a framework for robot learning, to generate experiences to retrain the robot model. Throughout the workflow, NVIDIA OSMO seamlessly assigns computing jobs to different resources, saving the developers weeks of administrative tasks.
Disney+ on Apple Vision Pro received a new immersive environment in collaboration with National Geographic (source)
Available now, Disney+ subscribers watching via Apple Vision Pro can access a new immersive environment based on Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, on a snowy winter day. Marking National Geographic's debut immersive project for the headset, your surroundings feature immersive elements.
A Chinese manufacturer has launched the first replica of the vision pro (source)
The hardware parameters seem to have been improved and the price will be around 1799usd
Apple Vision Pro: Was It Worth It? Real Owners React! (CNET)
Apple Vision Pro object tracking in a soccer field (source)
New test with Apple Vision Pro and object tracking. This time, showing the distance between the ball and the target and a trigger with some effects when the target is hit. Again: the tracking is VERY good outside.
iPad Pro's Tandem OLED Display Tech Could Extend to Future Vision Pro (source)
LG and Samsung have prototyped micro-OLED displays with tandem OLED technology, according to Korean publication Sisa Journal, paving the way for a future model of Apple's Vision Pro mixed-reality headset to potentially adopt the technology.
All in all, the technology now exists for the next-generation Vision Pro to feature even brighter and more power efficient displays in a few years from now.
Imagine every author having their own AI twin to answer your questions or delve deeper into their work as you read.
SIGGRAPH 2024 Shot in 8K VR180 for the AVP
The Roddenberry Archive on AVP (Star Trek)
Thought this is a pretty cool free app for the Star Trek fans
New Apple Vision Pro apps focus on fashion — Rimowa go spatial (source)
Rimowa, the German luggage brand, offers a free visionOS app that allows you to view its wide selection of suitcases within your current environment. You can look at these products up close, customizing them with different colors and more, which can change in real time to help you see which product suits you best.
Tubi is now available on Apple Vision Pro (source)
The biggest free ad-supported streaming service is now available on Apple Vision Pro. Tubi — the Fox-owned service that has more than 250,000 movies and TV episodes, and more than 250 live channels — can now be loaded onto Apple’s VR platform. It’s still free, and it still has ads, of course. And the inclusion on Apple Vision Pro brings the number of platforms Tubi supports to just shy of three dozen.
Waterfield Backpack for Apple Vision Pro review: spatial commuting (source)
The Backpack for Apple Vision Pro feels close to perfection and is perfectly unique. There isn't much to improve upon, but the eye-watering cost and odd design choices limit it to a 4 out of 5.
While the Backpack casts a nice silhouette, we still miss features like a water bottle holder. And if those weird inner pockets could be made more useful, and that would help elevate the product further.
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