Design & AI Scoop Issue #4

☕ Weeks Highlight

Apple Vision Pro & WWDC
Sam Altman’s India Tour
Chrome Extensions are notorious
Text prompts to Video

Apple Vision Pro ~ WWDC 2023 ✨

Credit: Apple

Apple is finally in the game of AR/ VR by launching Vision Pro.
Launch of a brand new VisionOS operation system to power the Vision products.
Priced at a whooping price of $3499 it is expected to hit the market in early 2024.
P.S. During the whole even Apple didn't mention AI even a single time. It resorted to using the words like “machine learning model, language model, etc.”

First-Hand review- MKBHD’s thoughts on VisionPro after using it for 30mins

Now, Since the biggest tech company is now in the AR/ VR segment it can rally other media & production houses to adapt and create rich content and experience for the users. One such example is Apple partnering up with Disney to bring Disney+ and a cinema-like experience to the VisionPro headset.

For designers, this adds a new playground the “Spatial Interface Design”. Here are some resources to read and know more about it.

Principle of Spatial Design: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072
Design for spatial interfaces: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10076
Design for spatial input: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10073
Also Check out Microsoft mixed reality resources

A quick overview of Apple WWDC 2023: 17 big & little things at WWDC23

Sam Altman visiting India, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE and South Korea

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Think Twice before using a Chrome AI extension. ⚠

Chrome extensions are notorious and some of them might be stealing your data while posing as a lifesaver.

Some Chrome extension promise to deliver AI capabilities right in your Chrome browser but are actually malware to steal sensitive information. Read more
Even if an extension have 1000s of download you cannot be sure if it is not a malware.
Do not install a chrome extension unless it's super necessary.
Only install extension from trusted source.
A quick trick would be to deny automatic site access to the Chrome extension.

Disable auto site access for extentions

Quick Read: Browser Extensions: How to Vet and Install Safely By Berkley Information Security Office

Text to video ~ Runway ML Gen2. 😲

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🔬This Weeks Design element

Chips

Chips can show multiple interactive elements together in the same area, such as a list of selectable movie times, or a series of email contacts. There are four types of chips: assist, filter, input, and suggestion.

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Chips – Material Design 3

Chips help people enter information, make selections, filter content, or trigger actions. Chips can show multiple interactive elements together in the same area, such as a list of selectable movie times, or a series of email contacts.

m3.material.io/components/chips/overview