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The fact that “Severance” streams on Apple, and that its aesthetic is pointedly Jobsian, is a relevant irony. We love our iPhones, but we’d rather not think about what it takes to make them.
“Severance” Is Sci-Fi for the Soul
newyorker.com
What these rising apps and platforms all share is fragmentation. Whether it’s intentional self-sorting into like-minded or community-moderated groups, or the natural fragmentation that comes from a bunch of different people watching their own algorithmically curated video feeds, these apps all have a way of separating people based on who they want to talk to and what they want to be exposed to.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
This is a “virtual AR” device, so it’s easy to be fooled into thinking that it’s “just” displaying the camera feed, as Quest does. But it also gathers mesh and lighting information about the room, and it uses that to *transform* the internal projection of the environment in certain cases.
• For instance, [the film player bounces](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=1046) simulated emissive light from the “screen” onto the ceiling and floor, while “dimming” the rest of the room.
• Controls and interface elements [cast shadows](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=879) onto the 3D environment.
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