Opinion: A new promo video highlights the top of Apple
In the last week Apple celebrated the International Day of Disabled Persons 2022 that is observed each year on December 3 and accompanied by a short video titled “The Greatest” that showed the way that its users were making use of its accessibility features including door detection and audio alerts.
When ‘I Am The Greatest’ (with the Marliya Choir) by Spinifex Gum plays in the background, you’re shown several scenarios using accessibility features available on iOS and macOS like Magnifier and Door Detection as well as Image Descriptions for an iPhone and alternative pointser controls for Mac for the ability to track your head and facial expressions.
Although it’s an advertisement in the end. It’s just it being a plethora of features which you can utilize on the devices of Apple. However, it’s not hard to say that there’s something unique here that makes an impression about how far technology has come that virtually anyone can utilize the devices, as can any other user.
But, with rumors that the Apple VR headset allegedly coming in 2023, I think about how Apple’s accessibility features can be improved in terms of AR as well as VR.
While watching this video of two minutes (there’s an audio description version(opens in a new tab) also) You’re amazed by the way these seven people who are not actors are living their lives with an iPhone as well as an Mac and their Apple Watch to help them in their day-to-day activities. As an example, you’ll observe a mother who is hearing impaired being alerted by the Apple Watch that her newborn child is crying. So, she gets out and tends to her. You can turn this off by clicking the Settings menu, Accessibility and Sound Recognition and then turning off Sound Recognition to choose specific notifications for specific sounds.
The Julliard-trained jazz musician Matthew Whitaker(opens in a new tab) attracted my attention by the way he used his detection function in a situation in which he’s using his iPhone to help him figure out the words at the front of the building. I’ve heard that door detection can be used on any iPhone equipped with an LIDAR scanner, which means you’ll need an iPhone 12 Pro or higher and is capable of working for distances as long as 20 feet.
As I watched the way Detection Mode within the Magnifier app was reading the word ‘Stage’ in the front doorway, I occurred to me that I could see this as the beginning of something bigger. Consider a headphone that would instantly read items from menus wherever you pointed your eyes, or even other alerts for distance.
Additionally, if you’re walking your dog such as, for instance it could allow you to see clearly on the morning when it’s foggy to grab a stick that your dog might have dropped in front of you or tell you to find where the stick is and the distance it’s.
All of these relate to accessibility and the ways it can enhance the quality of life of a person. There’s for too long been content that has described accessibility features as hidden features’. It’s time to shift that. There are videos such as ‘The Best video’ that demonstrate what the Detection Mode as well as Voice Control not only help users on a daily basis, but also succeed also.
The headset that has been rumored to be in development could take these features the next level. when it is launched by 2023, then the primary concern for me will not be about the amount it will cost, but rather what accessibility features will be included right from the start.
The video is among the best Apple has made in recent times Let’s look at what else the category has to enhance the lives of others.
