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AppleTV FaceTime is amazing (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by IanaLorD@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch
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It might suck for handoff and be fiddly with the iphone camera etc. Shareplay is mystifying, the whole UI is cryptic.

But the audio signal processing chain is wild AF. You can blast movies, YouTube etc out of a full theater speaker setup and still simultaneously have excellent conversational quality between parties. The echo cancellation is so thoroughly complete that the other side can't even hear that your playing anything most of the time.

The iPhone itself always was pretty amazing at this but your "continuity camera" microphone is usually much further away and also Apple isn't in control of your home theater audio.

Hat's off to the engineers who worked on this undersung capability.

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[–] Bobby_Fandango@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still can’t even get it to actually work…

[–] IanaLorD@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

A fair amount of apple services don’t “just work”. Signing iCloud out of every single device, and restarting can often fix this.

[–] alexjalexj@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The audio and video is great, no doubt. It took me forever to get work. I had to sign out and back in to my Apple account to finally get it working. Even then I still had try a bunch of times. Then when I called people no one answered. When I finally got in touch with one they said the call id showed up as random characters so they thought it was spam. The camera zooming in on people seemed a little too aggressive for my liking, often cutting out people talking.

[–] IanaLorD@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Really there’s a lot of reasons to say it’s bad and half baked. But the bones of it, clear two way communication, are not easy to do and I just want to praise them for that.