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@lemmy.ml
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    10 months 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?

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

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        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.

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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.

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

            It didn’t go well

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              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.

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          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.

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          AR uses a transparent overlay over reality perceived through a translucent surface

          No. Apple even has an entire library called ARKit to do Augmented Reality on a screen. For them, it has never meant transparent.

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            Just because developers name libraries things doesn’t make them accurate. Generally when something is misnamed it’s because of backwards/intercomaptibility or just design decisions that differ from original implementations and it’s no longer feasible/reasonable to refactor to a different name.

            Examples: windows 7 was version 6.1, windows 8 was version 6.2, windows 8.1 was version 6.3 Java 5 was versioned as 1.5, continuing the convention from previous releases 1.2-1.4 Hell, where I work we use an automation workflow with functions called stuff like “create_and_assign_citrix_security_groups_to_static_containers” that has long since been adapted to work with vmware and other non-virtualization platforms like k8s. Refactoring those functions would mean refactoring any external automation that uses these libraries, just like refactoring versioning schemas would break compatibility with any external software that relies on an assumption that windows >xp would be 6.X.

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              10 months ago

              I understand what you’re saying, but politely disagree. The OP of this thread asked “isn’t this just AR”. In the context of Apple - yes, it is.

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                No hate if you disagree, your reasoning is sound. I just think that naming, especially in the new tech space, goes beyond pedantry. We have words that are specific enough to describe two similar technologies, but we only retain shared understanding of those words if we collectively use them. It may be the case that AR evolves to be commonly understood as encompassing both technologies but they are fundamentally different in how they work, whatever we choose to call them.

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

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

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          If you load up an AR app on your phone, it will often overlap the augmentation over the camera image. So I think reprojecting the outside world using cameras and augmenting that in VR is also a form of AR. Maybe we need a new name for this specifically, though? I don’t know. But maybe AVR or VAR?

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            We don’t need another name because it’s a very common - almost expected - feature in VR headsets. My headset has monochromatic cameras for passthrough, but it’s still a VR headset.

            Also, often the whole idea is that this passthrough layer can be toggled at anytime or even gradually mixed with the computer-generated reality, so creating another name will just increase confusion.

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              I’m not sure about your definition of AR, but if the camera is showing the real world plus digital content then it’s augmented reality.

              Here is some definition:

              In virtual reality (VR), the users’ perception of reality is completely based on virtual information. In augmented reality (AR) the user is provided with additional computer- generated information within the data collected from real life that enhances their perception of reality.

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                showing the real world plus digital content then it’s augmented reality

                But it isn’t. AR means direct optical contact with the real world augmented with a digital / computer-generated layer. What Apple’s VR does is recreate the real pov digitally using cameras, so it’s VR.

                Apple’s tech builds a digital world and adds a “reality” layer on top - meaning the user only sees displays. AR’s like Google Glass do the opposite, adding a digital layer on top of the real thing.

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                The terms are up for definition, I’ve read a ton and there is no specific consensus about optically seeing reality

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              I was thinking more of a general term. I can imagine apple putting all kinds of trademarks over any term they’re going to use.

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

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    10 months 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.

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    Dante Lentini, 21, who posted a video of himself behind the wheel of a moving Tesla while wearing a Vision Pro headset, said in an interview, “It was all just for content.”

    Well, maybe when they revoke their licence they can tell them “it was all just for other people’s safety”.

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    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)

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      It’s camera pass-through, so while it is the same idea as hololens (overlaying windows on reality). The hololens would actually be a safer thing to wear while driving, given it fully transparent. There are not screens blocking your vision with camera feeds overlayed on top.

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      Hololens is slightly more advanced. At least the last I saw it uses waveguides etc. to overlay the content over a transparent panel. Much like Google glasses, but way, way more advanced (and therefore justifiably expensive - last I saw, again, it was something like $15000). AVP is no different to a $300 Quest (plus internal cameras for iris and expression tracking and obnoxiously bad FOV) - it’s 10x Apple tax.

      Hololens is still alive and kicking btw, but it’s exclusively enterprise.

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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Videos being shared across social media this week depict an almost dystopian, futuristic scene: drivers of Teslas in Autopilot mode while wearing Apple Vision Pro headsets, seemingly unaware of the road in front of them.

    The new goggles have a feature that merges digital apps and one’s surroundings into one immersive space, and videos of people wearing them in strange settings have started to crop up across the internet since they were released on Feb. 2.

    Dante Lentini, 21, who posted a video of himself behind the wheel of a moving Tesla while wearing a Vision Pro headset, said in an interview, “It was all just for content.”

    Across social media, videos and images have circulated not just of people driving while wearing the Vision Pro headset, but also while dining at restaurants and working out at the gym.

    Eric Decker, a YouTube and TikTok creator who goes by the name Airrack, posted a video poking fun at an “average day for an Apple Vision Pro owner,” showing him wearing the headset while lifting weights at the gym, getting his hair cut, going through airport security, walking down a street and even showering.

    Apple has billed Vision Pro as a “spatial computing” device that allows users to watch videos, send emails and surf the internet in a immersive virtual reality.


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    10 months ago

    Do you fucking job and then maybe I’ll stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving my Tesla.