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just used the @Tesla app to pair my Vision Pro to my Powerwall 3 and take my home Off-Grid!
this is the future! 😮
Ian has been a great partner in crime to build Duo support for the Tesla app
so excited to see reactions Friday
The Tesla App is rolling out now for iPad, iPhone Duo, and Android Tablets and Foldables.
Finally on the big screens you bring around with you
the deepest irony is running this huge cross functional project for Tesla for months but not getting my own iPhone Duo until late November 😭
(@Apple bump my order up the queue it’ll make the app better unless you want me to keep daily carrying a pixel fold)
also, this release will be a *slow* rollout, it may take an extra week or two for everyone to get it while we gain our confidence that we got every screen right
our app is bigger than you imagine 😅
Out team of designers rethought many screens across the app to fill a bigger size
We’re still brainstorming, and will update and polish more in future releases
It’s awesome working with an inspiring team of Tesla designers and engineers including @ianzelbo @SMSeddy @iriscleung @Skdvnn_ @UIbyAdam, and the all of the other UI engineers across Tesla (who’s X accounts I don’t know 😅)
it took a village to get this done
Alex Guichet retweeted
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
I think we’re in for a new cultural shift of aspect ratios that’ll be catalyzed by iPhone Duo
You Can See Everything was amazing in 4:3.
The Odyssey’s IMAX was also close to 4:3
The cinematography of You Can See Everything was designed to tell the story through human faces. Lots of unusual choices:
- Ultra high length zoom lenses allowing cameras to shoot ultra-tight shots of faces without being close to the subjects. We’re talking breathtaking 250mm zoom lenses. You’d normally see these at sporting events.
The subjects would have no idea just how intimate these shots were going to be.
- Low apertures giving creamy bokeh that separates the faces from the scene.
- Distinctive vintage color grading by Damien Vandercruyssen that makes Elizabeth’s sharp blue eyes pop off the screen. It also makes everyone look a little bit evil. Nathan’s grey hairs seem to really pop.
- An aspect ratio of 4:3 instead of the usual 1.85:1 seen in most movie theaters. the result is that faces fully fill the screen. (I found the resulting letterboxing to be annoying, but I get the art of it).
there’s a small part of me that relishes replacing all the batteries in our test devices at work when they become spicy pillows
keeps my fleet of test phones working longer but also it’s just fun to look at the insides of the phones and fix them
I miss when tech was all about being excited about the future. We’re basically on the cusp of living in the jetsons. Things are great—it’s just that people have changed
Let’s all live a glass half full lifestyle
and if you see a problem, be a part of fixing it
design friends: it seems like the interaction surface of the user app pages of the HomeView is *under* the liquid glass? I can’t think of anywhere else in the Apple ecosystem where the core interaction is under a glass layer
