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.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    42·
    9 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
      71·
      9 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
        32·
        9 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.

        • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

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

        • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          9 months ago

          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.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        2·
        9 months ago

        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.