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00:00New intro and there's new tech coming, I mean there's always new tech coming, but what better time to lay it all out than the beginning of the year for some of the best stuff we're expecting for 2024.
00:12Now there was plenty of great tech in 2023, from smartphones to cameras to VR stuff to computers and headphones, a bunch of good EVs and a bunch of even better EV promises.
00:22But 2024 is looking up, so these are to me the most interesting new bits of tech stuff that we can look forward to for this upcoming year.
00:30Actually right at the beginning of every year is CES in January where it's out in Las Vegas.
00:34This year again I will not be there in person, but I will have my eyes on it and I will be seeing if there's anything interesting that sort of bubbles up above the rest of the noise.
00:43I can always count on you guys to send me that stuff on Twitter if you see anything.
00:47But then also typically kicking off every year with a bang is a January Samsung event, so we're expecting S24 reveal stuff pretty soon.
00:55Also based on the leaks it looks like S24 family is gonna look very similar to S23, so it'll be curious to see what stuff they actually do change, but that's another January thing we're about to get that soon.
01:07But the big headliner that appears to be right around the corner it feels like is Apple Vision Pro.
01:13This feels like maybe the most unprecedented Apple launch in a long time.
01:18Certainly in my career online just because you know love them or hate them, Apple is one of the biggest tech companies in the world and them doing such a weird launch like this is pretty fascinating.
01:29So they've shown it on stage, they did that announcement video and they announced it months ahead of time, but they have not shown a single Apple employee or executive wearing it even once.
01:40And they've let people actually test this thing out including myself many times, but nobody has been allowed to film themselves using it at all.
01:48And just in general there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how it's going to work, what it's going to be really good at, what you're going to want to use it for.
01:56Are you going to have to go into an Apple store to get custom fit to actually be able to buy one of these things?
02:01It's just shaping up to be one of the most interesting new products in a long time.
02:07Now it's super expensive.
02:08We all know that 3,500 bucks.
02:10So it's for sure not for everyone.
02:12Most people I know don't even plan on getting one, but it is for those early adopters who are curious about the VR stuff.
02:19And those who do, I already know, will be very impressed by the pass-through, which is incredible, by the immersion and the resolution, which is really good, by the eye tracking, which is borderline magical.
02:31But it also, it feels like it's going to be hard to review because it doesn't really compete against any of the other VR headsets.
02:37Like it is much more expensive than any of the others.
02:40So it doesn't, it doesn't compete against them.
02:42But then also it feels like, okay, that means it has no competition, which is kind of weird too.
02:47It's just, it's fascinating.
02:49I will say, if you want to go back and watch my initial impressions after I first tried Apple Vision Pro the day it got announced, I will link that video below.
02:56That's one thing, you know, I think this headset is going to be technically impressive to the people that try it.
03:01But the other half of the story that's completely unwritten is what apps are going to come out for it?
03:06What are the killer features and the use cases going to turn out to be that it turns out Apple Vision Pro is really good at?
03:12I had this vision of like wearing it on the airplane and watching a movie, wearing the headset for a four-hour flight.
03:18But it's also so heavy that I don't know if I'd want to wear it for that long.
03:21And will the battery actually last that long?
03:23There's so many questions, not a lot of answers yet.
03:26So looking forward to that for this year.
03:28But you know what I have almost no doubt about?
03:30I'm calling it now.
03:31Remember the word multimodal.
03:34Just for 2024, this is going to be the year of multimodal AI.
03:39So we've seen so much of the focus on AI for these past couple of years or the past two years or so.
03:44It feels like a long time, but it's mainly just been these chatbots, right?
03:48Where they're trained on all this information and then you give it a text prompt and it gives you a text answer.
03:52So it can generate some new interesting prompts or it can summarize something for you or it can sort of spit out something creative.
03:59But it's text in, text out.
04:01But we are right now at the beginning of starting to see what's called multimodal AI,
04:06which all it really means is it's more than one different type of medium input into this AI system.
04:12So it'll be able to understand text or audio or images or video and be able to work with that and still give you an output.
04:22So Google got in trouble a couple of days ago because they faked a video.
04:25And it's still on their YouTube channel.
04:27It's a six-minute video of them asking their new multimodal Gemini Ultra AI model a bunch of different questions in a row about, you know, stuff it sees being put on a table, drawings.
04:39You know, this guy puts objects in the frame, etc.
04:41And it's very conversational about all this stuff.
04:44The cup to the left.
04:49Nice.
04:51So that was fake or at least heavily edited.
04:54But I honestly didn't really care.
04:56The idea to me of it actually being that advanced, it never crossed my mind that that could be actually real time.
05:01But the idea, the idea of being able to feed your virtual assistant anything, that to me is the leveling up of this AI that we've been hoping for, just being able to give it.
05:13Whatever is in front of you, just be able to show it something or type out text or read it something or whatever.
05:18And all of that still works.
05:20I'm excited for eventually having a multimodal Google assistant whenever that happens.
05:25I also even did a short recently about the meta AI smart glasses.
05:29They have a camera on the front, but they also have an AI model in the glasses themselves on the computer.
05:34And that AI model is now with an early access program, multimodal.
05:38And so you can look at stuff with the glasses and it'll be able to help you with it.
05:42But all I'm saying, all I'm saying is multimodal AI.
05:45Just remember that word for now.
05:47And that's not even counting all the rest of the stuff AI is genuinely useful for.
05:50That's not even consumer facing from finding patterns and immense amounts of data to be able to better predict and control wildfires or to be able to invent new materials or cure diseases.
06:03What a world we live in.
06:05We truly live in an age of wonders.
06:07Now, new hardware is always fun, right?
06:09You know, new phones, new tablets, new computers, all that stuff.
06:12You want to know something interesting, though, about last year?
06:15Not a single new iPad was released in 2023.
06:21Makes you think.
06:22Now, the thing about the iPad is Apple does tend to make a couple occasional like amazing hardware changes to the iPad Pro.
06:29I think the iPad Pro is genuinely one of the most impressive pieces of hardware tech that I've ever used.
06:35And then they do that every year or two.
06:37But then at the end of the day, you use it and it's still an iPad.
06:41So I say this with some hesitation, but I am actually really looking forward to seeing the rumored new OLED iPad Pro in 2024.
06:48That's something we've heard that we might get for a while.
06:51We already have an OLED S8 Ultra.
06:53That tablet is amazing looking and I want to see a super bright OLED display on an iPad.
06:58We'll see if that shows up soon.
07:00One more interesting design change we're actually expecting with Apple is actually the Watch 10, the Series 10 10th generation Apple Watch.
07:08All signs are pointing towards a truly redesigned Apple Watch for the first time really ever in this year's Apple Watch 10.
07:14Now, I mean, let's be real.
07:15Apple Watch has looked kind of the same for a long time.
07:18Yes, the Ultra is a little different.
07:20It's a little bigger, a little flatter on the front.
07:22But the Series 9 looks just like a Series 8, which looks just like a Series 7, Series 6, Series 5.
07:28So they're all the same shape, other than basically the bezel getting a little bit thinner.
07:32Now, change for the sake of change isn't really useful on its face.
07:35But I just think the Apple Watch feels like it actually could use a fresh coat of paint, just a little design, a little refresh to get up to date with the Galaxy Watches of the world.
07:44Nice circles.
07:45I think it would look nice.
07:47Also, have you heard that the Apple Watch is like dangerously close to being banned in the US, which is a whole separate story, maybe worth a whole separate video?
07:56We'll stay tuned on that.
07:57Oh, and RCS on the iPhone.
07:58I'm excited for RCS to finally come to the iPhone sometime in 2024.
08:03They haven't said when, but Apple's committed to it.
08:05I usually don't root for tech to die, but I do think it's time to be done with SMS forever.
08:11So welcome on board.
08:13Now, this one's more general, but I am actually hoping, hoping this year for some interesting, some actually interesting smartphones.
08:21I'll put it that way.
08:22Because obviously this is, this is probably a little bit of a crazy ask because smartphones are clearly mature and they all are kind of looking the same and they improve a little bit every year.
08:31And even, even the folding ones now are kind of looking the same as they did the year before.
08:36But I think this is a good ripe time for a new, maybe mid range.
08:43It's not going to be the flagship, the big hitters, but maybe a mid range smartphone to really try something crazy new.
08:48It might be a crazy risky thing.
08:50Might not happen, but I'm hoping that we do get to see something like that in 2024.
08:54And then also I've said this before, but every single year for the next probably 15 years is going to be the most interesting year for electric cars yet.
09:02And I don't think 2024 is any exception to that rule.
09:05And, you know, we've got a bunch of really solid EVs already out there in the world, right?
09:10The most popular new car in the world is an EV.
09:13And there's already some really good ones in North America.
09:15Also, the NACS port has very quickly gotten a ton of commitments from pretty much everyone making electric cars.
09:21So basically Tesla superchargers will be available to way more electric cars.
09:25Great.
09:26Now, this year coming up, we already have a Tesla Cybertruck starting to hit the streets.
09:31That's pretty crazy.
09:32We are also definitely expecting a Model 3 and Model Y refresh very soon imminently.
09:38I mean, the Model 3 refresh is already out there.
09:40It's shipping in Europe and Asia, and I think it'll be in the US pretty soon.
09:43Stay tuned to the Autofocus channel for a look at those.
09:46We also just got a crazy Porsche Taycan refresh, drop a crazy Nurburgring lap time.
09:51So that looks to be a competitor to the Model S Plaid at the very high end.
09:55But also there should be way more, hopefully more affordable EVs coming out over the next couple of years.
10:01So all of this plus some hybrids that are somewhere in between for people not ready to go fully electric.
10:05That should all be the most interesting year yet for autofocus stuff.
10:08So I'm excited for that.
10:10And then, of course, there's lots of other tech that I am hoping to see take strides forward this year.
10:14But I also, I wanted to cap this off with some of the videos that I'm most looking forward to here this year.
10:22So last year, there were 70 plus new videos on this channel, which were super fun.
10:26And I have this like threshold for what I consider like a certified banger.
10:31Like when a video, when people approached me in real life and mentioning one of these videos,
10:38there were a couple that really bubbled to the top.
10:40And those were the Tesla Solar Roof video, the Tesla Cybertruck actually, Apple Vision Pro for sure,
10:48and the Formula 1 Explained video.
10:50Those all popped off.
10:51I really enjoyed the Formula 1 Explained video though, because obviously that sport is incredibly high tech.
10:56But I also think low key, there is a lot of other tech in a lot of other sports that's worth highlighting,
11:03that I think would be super fun to make videos about.
11:05Now, some of it is in the sport itself.
11:07Some of it is in the training for the sport, you might be surprised by.
11:11Some of it is in the broadcast, like you already know about those highlight moments.
11:15Tennis match, you see the ball, the slow-mo camera, and it hits just like on the line.
11:20You get that replay instantly.
11:22The line of scrimmage in football, the pitch count and the strike zone in baseball.
11:27There's tons of stuff like that.
11:28My point is, I'm probably making sports tech videos in 2024, because I've had a lot of fun with those.
11:33And I happen to be very interested in that.
11:35But then I also want to do more collaborations in general.
11:38I've had a lot of fun with the Waveform podcast, which if you haven't already subscribed there, link below, get subscribed.
11:44But we have guests on there all the time, which are really fun.
11:46And it highlights how much you can learn from having conversations with people.
11:49I think my creator conversations are some of my favorites.
11:52But also just in general, collaborations with people on YouTube.
11:56So if you all have suggestions for people, for channels you'd like to see us collaborate with,
12:01definitely leave a comment below, because that's on the high list for me.
12:05And then there's a few top-secret projects we've been working on over here for a while that are finally going to launch in 2024.
12:13You'll know them when you see them.
12:15There'll be huge announcements.
12:16Stay tuned here on Twitter and everywhere else for that stuff.
12:20I've included Easter eggs to the two biggest ones in this video.
12:25They're subtle, but once they're announced, you'll know.
12:28So yeah, look forward to all that stuff for the new calendar year.
12:31I'm going to wrap it up here.
12:32Thanks for watching.
12:33See you in 2024.
12:35Like, starting now.
12:37Peace.