Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police::Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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    661 year ago

    The new goggles have a feature that merges digital apps and one’s surroundings into one immersive space

    Isn’t this just AR? We’ve had that for years. Or is it somehow different from existing AR?

    • @Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world
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      991 year ago

      Ah, you seem to have made a rookie mistake, poor people are using AR, apple users are using spatial computing

      • Dran
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        1 year ago

        It is slightly different, but in a way that’s worse.

        AR uses a transparent overlay over reality perceived through a translucent surface, or at most a small subset of your vision is replaced. Think sunglasses with a screen you can see through, or a small corner of your vision is blocked by a tiny screen.

        In Apple’s “spatial computing” cameras recreate and alter reality, nothing you see is with your own eyes because no part of the display is transparent.

        • Eager Eagle
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          281 year ago

          Exactly, it’s VR with passthrough.

          I have to laugh at “spatial computing” though.

        • @Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world
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          AFAIK there is no strict definition for AR how current reality has to be implemented, and both transparent and reprojected have their advantages and disadvantages. For example it’s much harder to “pin” augmentation on transparent AR, on the other hand latency and FOV are big issues for reprojected AR.

          • @Zron@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            You ever seen the myth busters episode where they try to drive a car through cameras and computer monitors?

            It didn’t go well

            • @Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world
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              61 year ago

              While I completely agree that it is a very bad idea to drive with one, you have to give credit where credit is due. Apple really did an amazing job at reducing latency of the passthrough. That being said it’s still added latency and it’s a very very narrow FOV so please don’t go driving/walking around with that thing.

        • @laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          Oh shit. That makes them less appealing, then.

          I wish I could say this scenario is unlikely, but nowadays? Who knows! So, picture this:

          • John likes to use his Apple goggles from 11pm to 1am.
          • Hackers get into his googles and install some malware.
          • Now they can walk in front of John without being seen.

          That wouldn’t happen if the goggles were truly transparent.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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        91 year ago

        Oh shit I don’t want to be a poor people I need to get something with spatial computing!

    • ???
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      31 year ago

      I watched some reviews about it. Yes, it’s basically like having an iPad screen taped to your eyes.

      • Eager Eagle
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        1 year ago

        pretty good VR*: all of the user’s field of vision is digitally (re-)created.

    • HobbitFoot
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      11 year ago

      AR of that visual quality has required the user to be stationary and tied to a large computer.

  • caoimhinr
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    451 year ago

    First we had the Glassholes, now there’s Prolapses.

  • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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    131 year ago

    How can people be so stupid… At least, a VR headset is easy spottable by police and those bastards can be removed from the streets.

  • voxel
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    1 year ago

    it’s basically just hololens right?
    also visionos is not the first “spatial os”, windows 10 was the first. (ever notice how stuff has circular glow effect around it? it’s supposed to show up around the pointer while using the os in vr/ar)
    Microsoft quickly abandoned the idea tho as well as basically the whole uwp platform (which was supposed to bring the same apps on pc, windows mobile, xbox and hololens)