The device alone doesn’t matter: Vision Pro is a showcase for Apple’s spatial computing tech

We talk about the Mac, but ultimately the Mac was a vehicle for GUIs – icons, mice, scrolling, toolboxes, painting. We talk about the iPhone, but the iPhone turned out to be about mobile photography and apps and touch. Get too hung up on the (very pricey) initial hardware, and you might miss some of the potential of what Apple is doing with what they call spatial computing. And you’ll also miss how some of these threads in interaction design started – as with those other examples – long before Apple.

Mutable Instruments swan song: end of production leaves huge legacy, one last Plaits update

What a way to go out. Mutable Instruments discontinues production this month, but leaves a reshaped modular landscape, a real legacy for open source design, and – oh yeah, still one more Plaits update new synth models and DX7 patch compatibility, too?

Peter Kirn - December 15, 2022

NASA’s Webb telescope could transform how we imagine digital art, along with our cosmos

Amidst meaningful and justified disenchantment with digital media, NASA’s Webb offers a different course for understanding our relationship with technology. It offers a chance to peer into our existence with greater understanding. It could be this generation’s “Blue Marble” – looking instead outward and deep into time. And it promises to be more than one image – way more than just one.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2022

Soundwide = NI + iZotope + Brainworx + Plugin Alliance – what to know, what to grab for free

Peter Kirn - April 13, 2022

Epic Games just bought Bandcamp – so what does that mean?

Peter Kirn - March 2, 2022

As Facebook reveals fundamental flaws, music tech might reexamine the platform’s role

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2021

ROLI hits reboot, files for administration, as it shifts to beginners and subscriptions

Peter Kirn - September 3, 2021

So yeah, let’s just use plug and socket – industry group recommends obvious change in terminology

Peter Kirn - July 7, 2021

Audacity makers clarify data usage – and there’s not reason to dump the editor yet

Peter Kirn - July 5, 2021

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