The other announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, and there are a lot of them. Hey guys, what's going on. I'm Rich damiro This is Rich on Tech Daily. On the last podcast, I talked about all of the things happening with iOS twelve when that launches later this year. But in this podcast, I'm gonna take a look at some of the other things that Apple mentioned at WWDC when it comes to the Apple Watch, Apple TV, maccomputers, and more. Let's start with Apple Watch, which I think
is the best wearable on the market. I also love my Fitbit Versa, which works with iOS and Android, but it definitely has less features and options than the Apple Watch, but also a lower price tag. Now, the new software for Apple Watch will be called Watch OS five, and it's not going to work on the first generation of Apple Watches, which are going on three years old. Now, clearly, these are not like a Rolex that you can pass along to the next generation. These things have a lifespan.
Several new features are coming to Watch, including automatic workout detection, which will be a really nice addition, plus a feature called walkie Talkie. This will let you send short bursts of audio back and forth right from your wrist to another Apple Watch user. It kind of reminds me of Next Tell back in the day Pleae bleep. But The Verge got a hands on demo and it seems like it's more like a FaceTime audio call. Once you initiate it, then you can do sort of these little back and forths.
But if you stop talking for about five minutes, you're gonna have to reinitiate the walkie talkie process. And it sounds like Apple is still working on the details, especially that time out period. Apple Podcasts is coming to the Apple Watch, which is a big win for this growing area. Now you're gonna be able to store podcasts like this right on the watch itself. Now, a podcast app I like called Overcast already does this, but apparently and I have not tried it, but the transfer process is a
bit slow. So hopefully with native support from Apple, the new podcast app will download to the watch using Wi Fi while you're charging, so every sort of happens in the background and a lot faster. Apple Watch just continues to get better and better. I think this is one of the biggest growth areas for Apple right now, and I just wish maybe they would get Spotify on there. That'd be kind of cool. Apple is also releasing the
second version of AR kit. This is what developers use to create augmented reality apps on the iPad and iPhone. Apple's making their own app called Measure, which will be included in iOS twelve. It's kind of like a virtual measuring tape that can quickly tell you the size of objects that you pointed at in real life. Apple also worked with Pixar to create a new open file format for AR, which should help the platform grow because now there's a standard that people can work with them. When
they share it, they know people can open it. I played a game at WWDC called swift Shot. This is something that Apple created as a test, really just to
inspire developers and to show what's possible. The game is played using the screen of the iPad as a lens, and you tap the screen to actually engage these slingshots, and on the table in front of you you see a giant playspace filled with all kinds of blocks and slingshots, but it's all in virtual reality, so you don't actually see it in front of you unless you're looking through
the iPad screen. It's really interesting you attempt to knock down your opponent's slingshots before they can knock down yours. It's not a game that will be released to the general public, but it shows just how powerful this platform can be in creating entirely new ways to play. All right, let's move on now to Mac os. The next new release will be called Mojave, and it looks like a big one for starters. You're gonna get a dark mode, which makes your screen easier on the eyes in low
light settings, or just really cool in general. Plus, several iOS apps are making their way to the Mac desktop for the first time ever, including news, stocks, voice, memos, and Home, which you use to control your smart home devices. Apple also showed off some really powerful tools when it comes to screenshotting, video capture, and markup right from quick Look. This is when you tap the space bar to preview a file. I love that feature. Now you're gonna be
able to manipulate files right from that window. That's pretty genius. And when it comes to Apple TV, several little things happening here with tvOS twelve For starters, Apple TV four K is gonna get an upgrade to use Dolby at most audio now, when Apple announced this, it literally sounded like a little earthquake happened in the auditorium. It rumbled that much. It reminds me a lot of the THHX bumper you would see and here in movie theaters back
in the day. iTunes movies that you own will be automatically upgraded with the improved Dolby at most audio if available. There's also a new screensaver on Apple TV literally shot by NASA in outer space, so that's gonna be pretty cool. And screen savers finally get the feature that I've been asking for forever, text on the screen that tells you what amazing place you're looking at, so no more guessing.
And finally, a feature called zero sign in will help you access movies and TV shows on the various video apps without signing in at all with your cable company name and password. This happens all the time where my kids want to watch something on one of their apps and I have to sign in again. It's such a pain.
But in the future, as long as you're on the same Internet account as your cable account, you'll be authenticated in the background, and you might be thinking so for me personally, this would not work because I have Charter for my cable and then I have DirecTV Now for my service that I sign in with, so that wouldn't work for me. But I get what they're trying to
do here. Charter and all these other cable companies want to make this work because guess what, now you're gonna want to subscribe to cable TV through them as well as Internet, and they just won that battle. By the way, Charter Spectrum is going to be the first to implement that feature, and they're also working with Apple in a different way as well. They're going to give customers the option to ditch their cable box entirely for an Apple
TV later this year. And this is pretty compelling because if they offer me all of the same features as Direct TV Now, including a DVR and my local channels, why wouldn't I have both on the same bill plus zero sign in. There you have it some of the biggest announcements from WWDC. If you want to hear the ones that have to do with iOS twelve, check the
last podcast. Thanks so much for listening. You can find links to everything I talk about here, including a post on my behind the scenes at WWDC on my website. Just go to richon tech dot TV. I'm Rich Tomiro. Talk to you real soon.