Day: June 13, 2023

Disappointment and Overinflated – Apple’s New VR Headset

by Steven J. Schuchart Jr., posted in IT Leader
S. Schuchart

Summary Bullets:

• The new Apple Vison Pro AR headset has many features and innovations.

• The price of the new headset, plus the immature state of the AR/VR market is a limitation.

Apple has announced its first AR/VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro at a price point of $3,499 and will be available in early 2024. This is Apple’s first foray into the AR headset market, and it shows all of Apple’s style and UI innovation that has come to be a hallmark of the company. For what specs have been released to date, it’s an impressive headset, far outstripping rival Meta’s AR/VR headsets. Reports from those who tried the devices on-site at Apple’s WWDC 2023 talk about how its ability to select the amount of immersion, i.e., the amount of the real world you want to see is impressive, as well as the quality of the screens and the build of the headset itself. Apple ran a number of demos, showing off the features of the Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s engineering efforts on this product started all the way back in 2015, showing the time and money required with such a complicated piece of equipment. Overall, other than the price the impressions were mostly positive.

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Oops – Ofcom Hacked. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

by Rob Pritchard, posted in Communicate, Network, Secure
R. Pritchard

Summary Bullets:

• Even telecoms regulators get hacked. Ofcom was hit by the MOVEit cyberattack, with the breach leading to information about a number of regulated companies and its staff being stolen.

• Consequently, Ofcom is now more likely to focus its attention of cybersecurity regulation, given that it is “the regulator for online safety in the UK.”

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (‘Who watches the watchers’) was Roman poet Juvenal’s comment on people in positions of power and influence – which must, these days, also include telecoms regulators. UK telecoms regulator Ofcom, alongside the likes of the BBC, Boots, and British Airways, was targeted in the cyberattack on MOVEit Transfer (a “secure file transfer service”) customers. So irony piles on irony.

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