A Few Thoughts on Apple Vision Pro Passthrough, Google Has Juno Pulled From App Store, Microsoft Discontinues HoloLens 2

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following stories:

• A Few Thoughts on Apple Vision Pro Passthrough

• Google Has Juno Pulled From App Store

• Microsoft Discontinues HoloLens 2

Hello everyone. Some follow-up to our Apple/OpenAI discussion from Monday. The Financial Times is reporting OpenAI asked companies investing in its latest capital raise to not back rival companies. If true, that could have played a role in Apple backing out of an OpenAI investment. It is not necessarily in Apple’s interest to see OpenAI exceed or excel while OpenAI competitors struggle. Apple Intelligence can benefit from integrating various third-party multimodal models.

Shifting to today’s update, there will be an Apple Vision Pro / headset theme to the discussion.

Let’s jump in.

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