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662: Just Break the Law

122 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

122 min

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2 min

Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Product & Tech Trends

AI-Generated Summary

Key Takeaways

  • Vision Pro Display Fidelity: M5 Vision Pro renders 10% more pixels in foveated area but difference barely noticeable in practice. Mac Virtual Display makes retina displays appear non-retina when compared side-by-side with physical Pro Display XDR, making it unsuitable when actual display available nearby.
  • Vision Pro Comfort Engineering: Dual knit band uses tungsten counterweights in rear strap with top strap acting as fulcrum, lifting device off cheeks and reducing face pressure. This $100 accessory transforms comfort for extended 90+ minute sessions compared to solo band's single-point pressure system.
  • LLM Temperature Settings: Enterprise applications use temperature zero for deterministic responses in production systems like invoice scanning, unlike ChatGPT's creative temperature settings. However, GPU floating-point math non-associativity and dynamic batching creates hardware-level nondeterminism even at temperature zero, causing token selection variations.
  • Vision Pro Spatial Tracking Drift: Extended home use reveals subtle misalignment issues where virtual objects shift centimeters off walls or tilt slightly between sessions. System auto-corrects by animating objects back to walls, but visually sensitive users notice the drift before correction occurs during room-to-room navigation.
  • Vision Pro Demo Limitations: HDCP copyright protection blacks out both mirrored laptop screen and Vision Pro headset display when playing immersive video content, making guided demos impossible. This affects Apple's own content, creating frustrating experience when introducing new users to immersive environments and spatial features.

What It Covers

ATP launches holiday store with new products including M5-branded shirts, Ethernet T568A/B wiring standard shirts, and improved chicken hat 2.0. John reviews M2 Vision Pro extensively, finding Mac Virtual Display disappointing compared to physical displays despite impressive spatial computing capabilities.

Key Questions Answered

  • Vision Pro Display Fidelity: M5 Vision Pro renders 10% more pixels in foveated area but difference barely noticeable in practice. Mac Virtual Display makes retina displays appear non-retina when compared side-by-side with physical Pro Display XDR, making it unsuitable when actual display available nearby.
  • Vision Pro Comfort Engineering: Dual knit band uses tungsten counterweights in rear strap with top strap acting as fulcrum, lifting device off cheeks and reducing face pressure. This $100 accessory transforms comfort for extended 90+ minute sessions compared to solo band's single-point pressure system.
  • LLM Temperature Settings: Enterprise applications use temperature zero for deterministic responses in production systems like invoice scanning, unlike ChatGPT's creative temperature settings. However, GPU floating-point math non-associativity and dynamic batching creates hardware-level nondeterminism even at temperature zero, causing token selection variations.
  • Vision Pro Spatial Tracking Drift: Extended home use reveals subtle misalignment issues where virtual objects shift centimeters off walls or tilt slightly between sessions. System auto-corrects by animating objects back to walls, but visually sensitive users notice the drift before correction occurs during room-to-room navigation.
  • Vision Pro Demo Limitations: HDCP copyright protection blacks out both mirrored laptop screen and Vision Pro headset display when playing immersive video content, making guided demos impossible. This affects Apple's own content, creating frustrating experience when introducing new users to immersive environments and spatial features.

Notable Moment

Testing revealed Vision Pro maintains spatial anchors across entire house layouts, tracking widget positions from dining room to living room with centimeter accuracy. The technical mystery of how it accomplishes this room-to-room persistence without GPS, using only cameras and sensors, remains unexplained but demonstrates remarkable spatial computing capability.

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Episode Transcript

So, not to turn this into the Accidental Goose podcast, but, when we were at the show together, I had either self elected or maybe one of you or Tyler had sent me off to get Waters, if I remember right correctly. I think I self elected to do that. And, and I got stopped on the way by a couple of former coworkers. And, and I was chit chatting with them. And then, one of them, I I knew some. And, you know, he's a nice guy, but I didn't know tear terribly well. And the other one, I knew better. And, we, you know, hadn't seen each other in years and years and chitchat a little bit then and then made arrangements to meet up for lunch today. And we met up for lunch, and we're catching up about, you know, what he's been up to, what I've been up to, and so on and so forth. And then toward the end of the lunch, I think apropos of nothing, if I'm not mistaken, my friend Dave said, you know, I gotta tell you, I've listened to Nothing But Goose since that concert. That was last Brilliant. Same same story here. So I gotta tell you, it's been it's been a virus, and I am deeply infected. A lot more enjoyable than COVID, though. At least I got that going for me. Yeah. I would say it's substantially less destructive than COVID. I would hope. Alright. We have some administrivia to take care of, some exciting administrivia to take care of. First of all, we're actually remembering for once. And part of the reason I think we're remembering to talk about the new member's special is because John had the fourth foresight to put it in our internal show notes with a bright yellow background and a really, really pink foreground new member special. Because every other time, the three of us just plow right butt right by and completely forget to bring it up. So we have a new member special. I'm happy to introduce it, but I think, Marco, it might make the most sense for you to do so. Yeah. So as listeners might remember, I weirdly bought a restaurant. And so the it's a seasonal restaurant that is open only in the summer. The season has now ended for its first year. And so this member special was basically recapping, you know, how the first year went, some lessons learned, some, you know, both technical lessons, things that worked, things that didn't work, things that were interesting, as well as people lessons and business lessons. So that's I think it turned out pretty well. So if you care about that kind of stuff, give it a listen. Yeah. You know, we got, a lot of really complimentary feedback on it, which I really, really appreciate, including, a lot of people a lot of people had said, you know, oh, I used to work food …

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    Mac Virtual Display makes retina displays appear non-retina when compared side-by-side with physical Pro Display XDR, making it unsuitable when actual display available nearby.

Products

  • by Apple

    Dual knit band uses tungsten counterweights in rear strap with top strap acting as fulcrum, lifting device off cheeks and reducing face pressure. This $100 accessory transforms comfort for extended 90+ minute sessions compared to solo band's single-point pressure system.
  • by Apple

    John reviews M2 Vision Pro extensively, finding Mac Virtual Display disappointing compared to physical displays despite impressive spatial computing capabilities.

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