Augmented World Expo in Long Beach was the first conference I attended fully equipped with Meta Ray-Ban glasses and Apple Vision Pro as part of my reporting toolkit.
I made plans to attend the Augmented World Expo this year in Long Beach without a schedule in mind. Here are people I wanted to see and talk to in the physical world. I have held many of those meetings off the record or in the background with discussions that inform my long-term reporting. However, some who are registered flowed directly from Meta Glasses to an iPhone and then back to Apple Vision Pro for composition in the Safari web browser. I’m typing these words on the iClever pocket keyboard on a gigantic screen that seems to stretch across the ceiling of my hotel room.
I’ve been attending various tech conferences as a reporter for over 15 years, and now with Metaglasses and an Apple headset, this is precisely the way I’d like to cover the future. When I started on this career path, I was scribbling by hand in a paper notebook that only I could decipher, and that capture process meant returning to a desktop computer to turn those notes into a coherent article in a Content Management System ( CMS) where Typically, a photographer separately delivers a set of photographs on the same subject.
Here in 2024, I’m recording a face-to-face conversation in my sunglasses and then taking it back to the media room where I turn a dial on my virtual reality headset to be in complete solitude, completely blocking out the noise with AirPods, setting up the keyboard on the table and concentrating everything on composing words, images, and videos in a Safari window until the task is finished. You can see my first attempts at this workflow in action in my articles on Sony headphones, Ultraleap, and Doublepoint.
Conferences like these are opportunities for ideas to mix and partnerships to be forged. I came face to face with Palmer Luckey, Amanda Watson, Darshan Shankar, Nima Zeighami, Blair Renaud, Ashley Huffman, Bernie Yee, Tipatat Chennavasin, Aidan Wolf, Sonya Haskins and many more.
As I was writing this, T-Mobile texted me to tell me it had used 48 of my 50GB of data for the month. I’m trying to put about 30 minutes of space video on iCloud showing the entire main discussion between Shankar and Luckey from my seat while watching from the second row of my Vision Pro. I dropped the videos on my iPhone because T-Mobile already capped my data anchoring that same day.
And as I write this, the water washing over the beach in Bora Bora, I was warned that I have reached 20% battery on the Apple Vision Pro. I traveled as light as I could on this trip, with three high-performance Anker batteries and several MagSafe to place on my iPhone.
There’s so much more to explore in workflows, from glasses to headphones. For now, I’m using the Vision Pro’s last battery percentage points tonight to account for photos and videos illustrating my text being added to this article after all my hardware and my head have a chance to rest and charge. new.
I returned to AWE on Thursday once again and called Don Hopper on WhatsApp from my iPhone. I switched to my view on the Meta glasses with a double tap on the capture button and gave it a tour of the place on any T-Mobile that would let me pass. I walked to the showroom with Apple Vision Pro in one hand and my suitcase walking behind me in the other.
The glasses disconnected from my phone in the middle of everything, I assume due to Bluetooth interference, and anyway, it was time to try phase two of this little experiment. On the show floor of the expo, I put on the Vision Pro and continued the same WhatsApp call via iPhone Mirroring, watching Don on his computer in Missouri from a virtual reality headset in the middle of Long Beach, although this experience He also seemed to be under pressure. of overwhelming wireless interference.
I’m writing this on a laptop connected to hotel Wi-Fi in another area of Los Angeles that does me no more favors when uploading videos and photos from this event than T-Mobile does in Long Beach.
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