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 and everyone is talking about Apple’s headset, which is probably a virtual reality device, might include augmented reality, but definitely is a real thing and as always, Apple (and the press/tech blog sphere who makes money reporting on Apple) thinks you’re going to love it.

My guess (and I’m happy to be proven wrong, always) is much like the rumored “Apple car”, this is not a thing that exists and won’t be demoed tomorrow. Or at least I’m very sure a VR headset won’t be shown tomorrow. Why?

 wrong, however. The developer of “No Man’s Sky” has 

. But one game isn’t going to move these, and a heavy bias towards gaming makes it seem less likely to be an AR device. If something does get demoed tomorrow, I would believe it is about improving the gaming/graphic capabilities and developer experience on Apple’s platforms with an emphasis on using the iPad as a gaming and AR platform. The M1/M2 iPad Pros have a lot of capability in a portable device that’s barely being used today.

We’ll find out tomorrow. Personally I’m hoping for an update to Music that makes the play button play music more than 50% of the time. Maybe just make the existing world work a bit better before jumping off into new ones.

Maybe just make the existing world work a bit better before jumping off into new ones.

My AR/VR (XR?) hot take

Note and bookmarks apps need to make us feel safe. Safe that we can save everything and forget it, that it’ll be there when we come back. Anything could be that safe place, even a plain document, a scratchpad, that gets longer the more things you add to it. Search, linking, organizing, filing—all good for your most important notes, but then again, the most important stuff will show up again on its own (something else the best notes apps could do, resurfacing older notes like Apple Pictures does with your photo “memories”). You’ll come across those best ideas again and again; your notes end up merely being a record of when you first encountered the idea.

 I often joke about digital systems that “forgetting is the point”. You put it down somewhere and forget about it. If you happen to go look for it again, maybe it’s there, but more often than not if it was a really good idea, the putting it down sticks a pointer in your brain that reminds you what to go look for better than ever finding the note about it does.

Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.

 today. It’s a former quarry on a rocky part of the coastline so it’s like, so many rocks.

And once you have rocks, what else do you do but stack rocks. Big rocks on rocks:

They say on a clear day you can see out to Maine. It was the clearest of days, and this was the farthest point out following the coast North so, I declare it to be Maine.

Overall would recommend, outside of whenever peak Rockport tourist season is. Trails are kid friendly, lots of things to climb on, and the kind of views that make you want to 

 and live out there with 40 cats, just watching the waves break day in and day out.

A sunny day on Halibut Point in Rockport.

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