This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: The first impressions of Apple’s just-unveiled Vision Pro headset leave us mind = blown. Still, no matter how vivid the VR is … or how flawless the visionOS user interface is … or how “natural” the headset looks to be … can anything justify its $3,499 price tag?
Also on The CultCast:
- The load of new Macs showcased at WWDC23 left us surprised — and just a little perplexed. Who exactly is the Mac Pro for?
- The iPhone’s voice recognition receives marginal improvements in the first iOS 17 beta, and that gives us hope for the future.
- Marquee features aside, iOS 17 brings a ton of tiny, thoughtful improvements.
- The tally is in for last week’s WWDC23 predictions. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
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This week’s top Apple news
On the show this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Here are the headlines we’re talking about on this week’s show:
Vision Pro
- First looks at Vision Pro: Apple nails the hardware (and the experience)
- First impressions of Vision Pro and visionOS (Daring Fireball)
- Here’s how spatial user interfaces work in visionOS
iOS 17 and other betas
- iOS 17 brings big changes to Phone, Messages and AirDrop
- iOS 17 tidbits: Enhanced Siri suggestions, multiple timers, recipe Visual Look Up, and more (MacRumors)
- Hands on with iOS 17 Autocorrect and intelligent input improvements
- tvOS 17 takes FaceTime to the big (TV) screen
New Macs: Mac Studio, Mac Pro and 15-inch MacBook Air
- New super-size MacBook Air is ‘world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop’
- Mac Studio updated with ‘most powerful chip ever made for a personal computer’
- Mac Pro finally gets updated to Apple silicon, is 3X faster
WWDC23 predictions tally
- The CultCast WWDC23 predictions results (Extra Ordinary)
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