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Okay, so, Apple just dropped some mind-boggling stuff at WWDC — and I mean, wow, I just have to talk about these new widgets for Vision Pro. Right, so picture this: you can now literally slap a widget on your wall, like a digital sticky note that sticks around even if you reboot your headset. Crazy, right? I mean, who even dreamed we’d get here?
Anyway, during this whole developer shindig, Apple showed off how these widgets do their thing. They aren’t like those old-school floaty ones; these dudes are like actually part of your room. You put ’em on a table, against your wall, what have you, and they’re stuck there. And here’s the beauty — these widgets are compatible with all the other Apple stuff. So if you’ve got a widget you love on iOS or iPadOS, bam, it’s there too. Plus, they’ve added this whole WidgetKit jazz with new sizes and styles specific to Vision Pro.
There was this doodad about ‘paper’ vs. ‘glass’ widgets. For the artistic peeps — if you’re running low on creative juice, maybe go for the paper style. It dims down in sync with your room lighting. But the glass style stays lit up, like your phone when you accidentally forget to dim it. You can see everything on it without squinting like someone’s shining a flashlight in your face — love that!
Another quirky thing they’ve baked in — these widgets have serious mood-sensing vibes. Say you’re across the room, just minding your own business, they sort of know it and only show quick deets like weather. Walk up to it, and whoosh, here’s your five-day forecast. Honestly, this might actually change how I decide whether to wear a jacket — or not.
Oh, and here’s a cool bit: first-party widgets from Apple are leveling up. Like this album poster one — looks like album art chilling on your wall, and you tap it, and voila, tunes playing. All this stuff isn’t just hanging in space; they want it to blend with your vibe, like magic frames in a sci-fi flick.
And here’s my favorite part — shadows. Yup, widgets casting shadows like real objects. It’s like Apple wants you to literally feel these things as part of your space. You get all these nifty tools to tweak ’em too. Change colors, resize them, make them pop out from the wall or sink in deep like part of the wallpaper.
Like it or not, widgets are about to show up everywhere. And honestly, I didn’t know I needed widgets to behave like well-mannered living room guests until now. Apple’s rolling these out already in the developer beta. So, maybe your living room wall can gossip with you about the weather this fall. Imagine telling someone that ten years ago.
