Drivers warned to not wear VR headsets whilst driving
Drivers warned to not wear VR headsets whilst driving
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zsdom

Original Poster:

1,831 posts

150 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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No seriously:

Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68215614

With video

https://x.com/secretarypete/status/175455902768868...

normalbloke

8,886 posts

249 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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s1962a

7,691 posts

192 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Could you look more like a plonker wearing a VR headset whilst driving?

No doubt someone in 10 years time will look back and laugh at luddite views like mine.

Whataguy

1,136 posts

110 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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For real augmented reality rather than virtual reality, it has to be projected onto a clear screen/glasses like the normal heads up display in many cars.

With those, if they fail you are left looking through clear glass so not an issue... not like with VR when everything suddenly goes dark and you are effectively blindfolded at whatever speed you were doing!

geeks

11,657 posts

169 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Sent the story to a friend who replied with "What an elite crossover of pure ism"

GroundEffect

13,864 posts

186 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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There is a risk people aren't differentiating between Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

The Vision Pro is AR, so the wearer can always see what's in front of them....however it's not a clear bit of glass with a HUD like solution. It's entirely a screen and the pass-through is done via cameras. Apparently 12ms is all the delay there is however, yeah....


Downward

5,655 posts

133 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Hopefully there’s plenty of trees on route

Nomme de Plum

7,050 posts

46 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Darwin award incoming.

geeks

11,657 posts

169 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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GroundEffect said:
There is a risk people aren't differentiating between Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

The Vision Pro is AR, so the wearer can always see what's in front of them....however it's not a clear bit of glass with a HUD like solution. It's entirely a screen and the pass-through is done via cameras. Apparently 12ms is all the delay there is however, yeah....
AR in VR headset terms is very much the same thing. Its a VR headset, no amount of marketing from Apple will dissuade me (and many others) from thinking otherwise.

Megaflow

11,525 posts

255 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Fcensoredking seriously… is this how stupid the general public now are?

Send the meteorite, we are done. It’s over.

Trustmeimadoctor

14,366 posts

185 months

Tuesday 6th February 2024
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I can't believe how many of these I spotted being purchased the other day!