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.

  • Eager Eagle
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    5 months ago

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

    • r00ty
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      25 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
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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.

        • Calavera
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          15 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.

          • Eager Eagle
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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.

          • @NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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            25 months ago

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

        • r00ty
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          25 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.