Watch *Before* Apple's WWDC 2023 Event.

so Apple reports earnings soon Apple

reports earnings on the 4th of May and

what should be pretty exciting is in

June they're having their WWDC and we're

finally expecting the unveil of Apple's

new virtual reality slash augmented

reality headset it's expected to cost

quite a chunk of change somewhere around

three thousand dollars but something

that I actually really support apple on

if these rumors are true is the idea

that virtual reality probably won't be

the near-term future rather augmented

reality will when I was skiing just this

last week I was thinking myself my

goodness there's so much literal screen

real estate when you're wearing massive

goggles not saying you want to wear

those all the time obviously but I was

just thinking about it when you're

skiing there's so much screen real

estate in here you could easily have

like you know hey is the ski school

trying to call me or text me like a

notification hey pick up your child

because he's screaming his head off and

he doesn't want to be here or whatever

right like or whether or not

notifications or Warnings or a map of of

how to get around about like all these

things would be really cool from an

augmented reality point of view and

something like that I could actually see

myself wanting to use now the problem

that I have is I believe that what

Apple's going to do is they're going to

have cameras forward so that they can

project on that like what your reality

actually is in front of you in my

opinion the issue with that is you're

still going to have that feeling of

looking through a screen right I think

the longer term future needs to be some

kind of almost transparent glass that

could essentially be overlaid over sort

of like the old Google Glass style

because I I'm not entirely convinced

that having basically I mean you could

do it yourself right now right just put

your phone on the video camera mode and

go like this and I mean maybe

but like my eyes already feel like there

could be messed up from doing that right

so who knows that'll be really

interesting but I do agree with apple if

the rumor is true that augmented reality

is going to be something that's more of

a future for Apple I think virtual

reality we're just not there yet uh I've

done many and used many of the new

virtual reality headsets uh my children

have them and it seems to be more of one

of those novelty things where you use it

for a few weeks you kind of put it on

you do like the roller coaster rides and

you see oh this virtual reality is so

good you might experience motion

sickness and you're like okay I maybe

I'm feeling it maybe they're right baby

it is so good I I don't know but it just

doesn't seem yet super functional and

maybe that's because the platform just

isn't there yet right in terms of the

type of games you have relatively

limited uh yeah you got some Fitness

games you can do you know sort of uh the

music games or whatever like the old

Guitar Hero and dance DDR style stuff uh

but I really feel like you know virtual

reality is going to be epic in the

future when I could play Like My World

of Warcraft carrier a character in

virtual reality but it actually feels

like I'm there but in order for that to

be possible I probably have to have some

kind of like platform that I could stand

on that could move so I could kind of

like run in One Direction right and

never hit the wall uh and I think

that'll come but so don't get me wrong

big fan of virtual reality I just think

that's 10 years out I'm excited though

about Apple's announcement of augmented

reality apparently they're supposed to

announce new MacBooks as well iOS 17 Mac

OS 14 a major watch update which I just

thought they came out with a major watch

update I'm actually I've got the major

watch update on right now which I'll

talk a little bit about this uh the but

the but the headset is probably going to

steal the show one of the things that is

interesting about the headset is Apple

is talking about having essentially a

way that um uh that you can

um basically scroll kind of like if

you've ever used a watch before here let

me show you because maybe you haven't

before so let me see if I can get focus

on the stupid watch uh there you go see

that little wheel that's gonna happen

um if I block some more here uh yeah see

this little wheel right here so apple is

suggesting that if you if you turn this

little wheel here you uh might it with

an augmented reality headset be able to

go from augmented reality to Virtual

Reality as you kind of turn this sort of

wheel around and so that's what they're

expecting might be like at the top of

your your head on this headset so kind

of think about it like and then you dial

the Little Wheel and then you go from

augment minute reality to virtual

reality that seems pretty cool again I'm

not convinced that projecting with

cameras what's actually really in front

of me uh onto a virtual reality headset

is going to be so convincingly great

specifically because uh what's it called

the uh the The Meta one does that when

you first uh you know when you first go

around and you do the uh you set your

perimeter for the virtual reality

headset it shows you the augmented

reality right it shows you you in your

room uh or all the things in your actual

room and just overlays it's not bad but

it still makes me feel like I'm looking

into a little screen because well

ultimately you are so uh I think that'll

be interesting to see what Apple comes

out with and if that's a kind of product

that creates any kind of headaches or

pain over using but AR augmented reality

I think it's the future for 2023 to 2030

and then virtual reality may be

thereafter I get what meta what meta is

doing Facebook they're they're trying to

invest for the advertising world of 2030

Plus

I just think they're burning too much

cash flow today to be smart about that

now apple is expected to lose money on

their virtual and augmented reality

headset as well so we'll see what

happens now when it comes to the watch

I'll give a little bit of commentary on

this uh so up until probably about a

week ago I've been a big believer that

this new rugged watch is really just uh

the same as all the other watches mostly

it's just a little bit bigger I haven't

really noticed any functional difference

in the fact that it's a little bit

bigger but one thing I will say that

I've really enjoyed because I generally

wake up pretty early and if I have to go

into uh or you have to walk past my kids

or I have to walk past Laura and my wife

then I I don't want to be rude and wake

them and usually what I used to do in

the past is I would just use the iPhone

flashlight app and I would kind of like

cover it a little bit and I try to use

that to kind of navigate around where I

was going to get what I needed to do in

the dark so not wake up other people

that was okay but there's still probably

too bright if anybody remembers back in

the 2007 2008 actually it's probably

more like 2007. in 2007 the first iPhone

ever there was no flashlight app and so

what you actually had to do back in 2007

is you would just open the video camera

feature

push the flashlight button on and then

you add your flashlight but they didn't

have a separate button for that which I

thought was wild but anyway what's cool

now about the rugged watch is they give

you this this third button this little

orange button over here and what I did

is I programmed that orange button to

flashlight so when I press the orange

button it turns the watch flashlight on

which is really good and then I could go

to strobe which I never do but I could

also go to red light flashlight over

here which is pretty neat uh and uh and

sometimes that functions if it's if I'm

in super low light I could go with the

red light flashlight nobody sees it

while they're sleeping and the other

ones a substantial step down from from

the watt or from the iPhone uh but I

love it from that point of view because

of the productivity element of of the

watch just me being able to go into a

dark room click that one button boom my

flashlight works pretty fast especially

since I don't always have my uh my uh I

uh phone on me now another thing that I

like to do is the um the actual

sort of main screen my big productivity

hacks on the watch I'll show you I'll

actually throw it up I'll throw up a

screenshot that I just took the way I'd

like to organize it generally during the

week and you can change your your home

screen obviously regularly on the

weekends sometimes I just like to have

pictures of the kids but this is usually

my productivity screen on my watch and

what I like about this is I'll put at

the bottom right whatever ticker I might

be trading that day so uh on Thursday I

was trading triple uh triple leveraged

QQQ so I kept QQQ on because my goal was

for QQQ to get to 319 and then I was

going to take my attendees and it

started out at like 3 15 that day so I'm

like I got a long way to go we ended up

getting the 319 and I took some nice

Tandy so I was really happy about that

but anyway so I keep that little tracker

at the corner my kids regularly uh the

most effective way to sort of like mini

discipline them if you will is by

setting one minute timers so if they're

like super annoying and Naggy I I set a

one minute timer and and then they get

pissed and then they learn to stop

bothering me the cool thing about that

at the bottom right or bottom mid there

is I can push with one click and that

one minute timer comes up that I think

is is um a little overpowered uh so I

like that I'll show let me see if I can

put it a little closer to the camera

here so you can see it a little bit more

functionally so if I pull out of this

all right let's let's see how am I going

to do this without it locking on me all

right I think I got it so we have our

little watch cover here and the cool

thing is if I just go ahead and

push that but look at that timer's right

there like how nice is that and then

obviously you can hit the little back

arrow there and go to like two minute

timer three minute time or whatever but

I made the button the one minute timer

just to make it like super fast now I

don't have to again go find my phone try

to unbury the darn thing which which I

usually generally leave docked but I'm

not always where the dock is you know

sometimes I'm playing in the backyard

with the kids and the phones are docked

inside and it's like I really want to be

able to sit at one more time so that's

been really useful the little uh music

button is great because I could uh if I

go on a run I could Bluetooth that

really quickly to my uh whatever

headphones I run with usually I use the

Apple Pro Max's just because the band is

really soft rubber and I really enjoy

that uh now someone from Israel is

calling great uh then uh we've got

um the little calendar thing super

useful to have that calendar right in my

face otherwise I'm gonna miss it if if I

don't have my calendar event like right

there I'm gonna miss it so that's pretty

useful of obviously date time and then

recently I put the calculator at the top

which has been pretty functional for me

mostly because there's so many times I

just need to do some quick math and

oftentimes I'm on a run and I'm like oh

I wonder you know if this happens that

happens or this with a stock or

something I'm trading or whatever and I

just need some quick math and it's

beyond the level of mental math or I

want some more accuracy my goodness the

Little Apple watch calculator has

actually been surprisingly functional so

I've I've come to like the watch a

little bit more and more over time but I

think you could do this with the

non-ruggeds as well I don't know if you

get as much screen real estate to have

all of these buttons here but that one's

been pretty functional for me that's the

modular setting on uh on the watch so uh

they're useful you know I know a lot of

people are pretty anti-apple they don't

like Apple products or the Apple

ecosystem uh and and I get it you know

there's some things that are quite

different I think eventually everybody

will be a blue texter uh but uh don't

get me wrong there are definitely some

things you need a PC for like gaming

gaming unfortunately Apple just has

never caught up with for uh for PC games

or or you know whatever it is

compatibility I don't know but maybe one

day maybe one day we'll be able to

actually game on a Mac but let me put it

this way I got one of those uh the the

Mac Pros uh Those computer they're like

ten thousand bucks I bought it as a

workstation like four years ago and I'm

like that's just gonna be great it's

gonna be so wonderful first of all it

wasn't it was a waste of money uh I was

really disappointed about that

but I tried to run rust on it the video

game rust and I compared to Lawrence

twelve hundred dollar gaming computer

because she gained so little she's like

just give me the cheap one on Amazon

hers had like three times the graphic

settings that mine had it's just it's

not possible yet to game on uh a game on

the max now maybe that's a good point

someone here says uh uh uh new cloud

gaming maybe uh cloud gaming you have to

be careful so I've done a bit of cloud

gaming I actually bring uh oftentimes I

try when we go on trips I'll bring like

a little um iPhone or Android remote

control where I could stick my phone in

it because I do have an Android as well

and uh then we can cloud game

and uh it's great when you have good

internet

obviously right cloud gaming but

that's been a little bit challenging for

us because usually when I use the remote

control and where you plug your phone in

I'm traveling and when you're traveling

the internet usually sucks

so obviously uh you know sometimes

that's that's all on the way uh if you

were to invest in augmented reality

would you look at Snapchat you know I

don't know that much about Snapchat

Snapchat is um very much dedicated to uh

I shouldn't say dedicated to but it it's

very much used by a substantially

younger demographic and there's nothing

wrong with that right like I'm not I'm

not age discriminating here I'm just

saying yeah it ain't me I don't

understand uh and and that that seems

weird because I you know I feel like as

a millennial I'm still supposed to be

like that younger generation that

everybody makes fun of

but I'm not that younger generation

anymore it's weird you know it's like

now it's it's gen Z and I'm like okay I

mean like a lot of people I employ are

gen Z and I'm like they're cool like

they're normal people like they're

awesome like I get along with them just

like I get along with Millennials it's

not like all of a sudden they're a

different breed of human uh you know so

I think everybody's the same I I don't

know I just I haven't Incorporated snap

into my life but then again you know I

could just be different in that sense

because I did I did just recently delete

tick tock Twitter

um and probably gonna delete Instagram

next to my phone mostly because of what

I'll do is I'll go like I'll go on

Twitter and I'm not gonna not use the

apps but I'll do it when I'm in the

office and I can be on a computer which

sounds insane I know but what I found

myself doing IRL in real life when I

found myself doing is literally if I had

Tick Tock or Twitter on my phone

every second I was like in the

conversation or whatever or at a red

light at a stoplight or whatever it was

like

oh what's what's the latest refresh Tick

Tock or Twitter Twitter refresh refresh

refresh and it's just like oh God no no

way too addicting uh and and it was it

just not useful like I found these these

apps were really useful for me when and

still are when I go on them and I get

like a scheduled summary right I have to

say that is something that Apple has

done extremely well the scheduled

summaries are probably my most favorite

Tool uh out of uh the Apple ecosystem

right now because they helped me so much

with uh with with basically just

organizing what what I'm doing but uh

notifications are pain I've talked about

that a lot before on this channel how

notifications are just horrible because

you could be in the middle of doing

something and you're constantly just

like oh God I gotta answer the phone oh

God I gotta respond to that text like

the worst and most annoying thing is

when when you go into like a conference

or something and everybody's got like

their their their uh um chime on for

their text messages it's just like so

anxiety inducing it's like turn that

crap off like do you really need to drop

everything you're doing when you're

interacting with other people to to uh

uh to like instantly respond now don't

get me wrong there are some things the

answer to that is absolutely right of

course uh but uh but I don't think

that's necessary for for everything so

um I think you could sort of create like

V you can you could create VIP it's like

if your wife calls you or there's your

school your kid's school is calling you

great instead of VIP like put them in

the little VIP category uh but uh but

otherwise you have to respond to

everything instantly God no which is

terrible for productivity but here's an

example of a notification summary

hopefully I don't dox myself but anyway

so like this is the next summary that

that I I think I've set for like 8 30

a.m and so uh this one's not actually

too long just because I think I got the

last notification at like 6 a.m but

anyway what it basically does is it

gives me this little collapsible segment

that rather than getting all my

notifications at once it just basically

collapses all these notifications into

little summaries so here let me show it

to you like this so at the bottom you

could see sleep cycle and recommended

colon funny those are just regular

notifications right but over here these

summaries I could click on just one

notification and then it expands all of

these notification summaries for me this

really functional really cool uh and

then it'll even you know generally

collapse within uh like if there are

five Bloomberg articles it'll collapse

Nest them all under Bloomberg and you

can separately expand those that's been

amazing productivity hack uh because

then again you're not missing all those

notifications instead they're bundled at

a time where it's convenient for you to

sit down and go through them you know

part personally I think the easiest time

to do email is not every minute an email

comes in but when you sit down and

you're like all right I got all my

emails ready you bang out all your

emails you bang out all your twittering

you bang out all your notifications and

then you go do normal stuff but

constantly like reacting to notification

quite frankly it's just idiotic and

terrible for productivity sorry I'm not

trying to call people uh you know idiots

here

oh

so uh that is my take on uh on on Apple

uh big fan uh very very uh very excited

by the way about uh the next Apple event

uh but then again I'm I'm always excited

about

um

uh about Apple products and then usually

you kind of just like they come out with

the product and it's like yeah all right

like everybody gets super excited around

the time of the releases and then you

kind of just incorporate into your life

and it's like not that different like I

will say the iPhone 14 it was so jazzed

I'm like this is gonna be the iPhone

that that like actually makes me excited

about upgrading oh my gosh the always-on

display oh my gosh

it it's not really that different from

my 13. I have the 13 It's actually

sitting in a dock right next to it the

one thing I do like is that always on

display I will say that that is nice

because I don't have to tap the darn

other thing to sort of wake it up but uh

but beyond that it's basically the same

in fact I did a video comparison of

comparing the iPhone

13 to 14 camera on a gimbal you don't

even need to use a gimbal by the way

anymore these days that that I will say

is insane like the gimbal Market when it

comes to iPhones I don't know how

they're not out of business yet I'll

show you an example but anyway uh

the quality is it like I did not notice

that much of a difference at all if if

anything it was challenging for me to

notice a difference between the 13 and

uh um and the 14. but uh the the

handheld uh technology now in in some of

these uh phones is just amazing I'll

show you

oh yeah this is this is a really good

example okay let me show you this little

video clip here and I think you'll

you'll enjoy it because so this was a

video clip of uh uh me probably Jack on

it like his third day ever of skiing so

it's not like super Advanced uh we're on

like a green slope or whatever but we go

down the sort of offside where uh where

you have all the little bumps and the

trees or whatever

and uh I'll show you that

here so what I want you to see is is

just basically how smooth this camera

feels uh so here's Jack and his

instructor and this is freehand like

there's no gimbal here this is crazy uh

this is me you know skiing up to him or

or skiing behind him or whatever and

it's it's crazy how stable the footage

is these days I also did some shots in

cinematic mode although I noticed when I

was in cinematic mode you had a little

bit more of um uh that AI wasn't that

great yet for the technology for keeping

your um keeping your focus at but let me

get some more shots here as I Stumble up

this little tree to get a shot of Jack

there we go uh so here we go uh I mean I

I think this is amazing do you think

this is in your pocket and it's so

smooth I think I actually follow him

here through the bumps and you'll be

able to see a little bit more but I do

don't quite remember yeah let me see

here you'll be able to get it to see a

little bit more I think of motion

following which is pretty neat but uh

yeah I used to have to do this stuff

with a gimbal which was always a pain in

the butt because then the gimbal would

unbalance and then wonky around or

something like that but for an iPhone I

I don't know this is this is awesome

so big fan

yeah look at that

ah good job Jack

I don't know like really cool that's all

I say I mean I know that camera

technology has just gotten good even in

Androids right so it's it's not just uh

hey look there's me it's not just uh the

the iPhone that does this sort of stuff

I don't really know what I'm doing here

I think I'm getting ready to turn it off

yeah anyway uh okay so so uh camera Tech

fantastic uh but I don't think anybody

really disputes that anymore these days

I do worry a little bit about DJI and

their iPhone gimbal Market but other

than that uh yeah really cool so um all

right

Let's uh let's go ahead and um yeah end

that segment so hopefully you enjoyed

that segment on Apple because I'm

excited about the augmented reality not

convinced yet on virtual reality but

augmented

I'm interested I could be really

convinced I'm tempted I'm almost tempted

to buy one which is scary because I

don't know first gen from from Apple I I

don't I don't know I don't know we'll

see and then again what are you gonna do

with it I don't know can I go on a run

with it they say it has a huge detached

battery pack I don't want to go on a run

with that

so we'll see

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