🥽 Apple Vision Pro

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This is Lightway, your weekly roundup of tech events in 5 minutes.

Here’s what we have for you this week:

📰 New Products: Apple’s Vision Pro Headset and Amazon’s Personal shopping AI assistant.

🛠️ Productivity: Quickly create graphs in ChatGPT and improve productivity in emails.

🎲 Misc: SpaceX to launch a private space station, a new way to discover places in Google Maps and how a tiny Caribbean island is making a fortune from AI.

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New Products

Vision Pro: Apple launches VR Headset

Apple’s new Virtual Reality (VR) headset went on sale on Friday at $3,499 a pop, and its taken over the social media with videos of people wearing it on the streets, subway and even while driving.

Until now, computers have been a 2D device with a fixed screen, keyboard and a mouse. But Vision Pro is a paradigm shift into “Spatial Computing”, where you interact in 3D using hands and gestures.

Broadly speaking, here’s what the Vision Pro can do:

• Entertainment: Vision Pro comes with two 4K screens and spatial audio which together provides you an immersive 3D viewing experience, anywhere.

• Work: Vision Pro extends your Macbook into virtual screens of any size! Instead of mouse and keyboard, just navigate with your eyes and hand gestures.

• Communications: Life-size facetime calls, record and watch 3D memories of your events.

Here’s a full review of Vision Pro (Youtube)

Rufus: An AI-powered personal shopping assistant by Amazon

Rufus is like ChatGPT, but for shopping. It can help you to:

• Research products, example - what to consider when buying running shoes?

• Comparison b/w products, example - differences between trail and running shoes?

• Product Questions, example - are these shoes durable?

• Recommendations, example - What are best dinosaur toys for a 5-year-old?

Rufus is available to beta users in the US and will start rolling out over the next couple of weeks. (link)

Productivity

Improve productivity in Emails

An average professional spends 2.6 hours working with emails! Here’s how you can improve your productivity in Gmail:

Help Me Write

• Create full email drafts from simple prompts

• Use ‘Refine’ button for tone and length adjustments.

• Pull details from previous threads for context.

Smart Compose

• Write efficient emails with real-time writing suggestions.

• Simply press tab to incorporate suggestions.

Smart Reply

• Provides three instant, nuanced replies to email.

• Save time with just two clicks to choose and send a response.

Quickly Create Graphs

Creating graphs over excel data is surprisingly time-consuming. But you can create any graph using ChatGPT in seconds!

Here’s how to create a line graph -

1. Use Chart Maker from GPT-Store

   

2. Enter your prompt and simply paste your raw CSV data.

   

3. And done! Follow up to customize the graph and download.

 Last Week in Tech 

→ Create Images from Text: Google launched ImageFX to generate images from simple text prompts (link)

→ Private Space Station: SpaceX signs deal to launch private space station (link)

→ Discover places in Maps: Google is bringing Generative AI in maps to help you discover new places (link)

→ Apple’s Self-Driving Car: Apple significantly increased testing of its self-driving cars, logging over 450,000 miles in 1 year. (link)

→ AI in the newsroom : New York Times is planning to use generative AI to help with reporting and editing content (link)

→ Detect Cancers with AI: A new early screening test for ovarian cancer is 93% accurate, thanks to AI (link)

→ Chips in Brain?: Neuralink successfully implanted its first brain chip into a human. It’s designed to help people with quadriplegia control devices with their thoughts. (link)

→ Caribbean Island banking on AI boom: Anguilla, a tiny 35 square miles island in the Caribbean, owns the “ .ai” domain, contributing up to $75M in its $300M GDP! (link)

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