Stop Wearing Vision Pro Goggles While Driving Your Tesla, U.S. Says
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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.

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.mlEnglish
    01·
    7 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?

        • r00ty@kbin.life
          0·
          7 months ago

          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?

          • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            7 months ago

            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.

            • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
              01·
              7 months ago

              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.

    • Benaaasaaas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

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

      • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months 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.