Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes If you've paid any attention to social media in the past four days, it's likely you haven't been able to escape the torrent of photos and videos of people wearing Apple's new $3,499 headset in public, tapping away at empty space in front of them, rudely waving at cars, or sporting a pair while driving a Tesla. We had a word …
Just another confirmation that most drivers of MuskMobiles are assholes. Many of them were clearly the BMW/Audi assholes of the past.
There is a reason that the Model 3 has such small turn indicators on the rear as no Tesla driver ever uses them.
Oh, and in the UK most recent Tesla's are white. With our weather and roads... they never look clean. Here, every other colour costs £££££. Any colour as long as it is white. Madness.
They claim to have a passthrough latency of 12ms, which is impressive to be sure. I suppose we'll soon know whether this is good enough to walk around for a long time without barfing. The field of view is severely reduced though, so even if walking around is okayish, driving is not, and will not.
I don't see a lot of people actually using the screen in front to display their eyes, it seems more creepy than useful.
One thing I haven't seen either is people asking angrily if the wearer is recording a video, which I remember was a feature of Google Glass. Maybe it pays to be second.
I don't see a lot of people actually using the screen in front to display their eyes, it seems more creepy than useful.
They probably are, but just can't see it. According to Marques Brownlee's in depth videos, the surface is so reflective, and the front display is so dim through the lenticular lens, that in any kind of light at all, you just can't see the creepy eyes. Probably for the best.
There are a load of Tesla Assholes with these trying to get their 15 nano seconds of Internet Fame.
Including one who faked being arrested for driving his TeslaTRuckPOS wearing one of these things.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/06/vision-pro-cybertruck-video-arrest/
Then there are those who really do drive with them on. Darwin's Law awaits.
Many other US sites are reporting the antics of these numbskulls.
https://insideevs.com/news/707382/tesla-apple-vision-pro-driving/
It is not just the Daily Flail.
> It always seemed a bit of an over-reaction
Question, if someone across from you in the subway takes out his phone and starts filming you, how do you react?
Now imagine that person doing that to everyone and everything he meets, all the time. In fact the person doing the filming may not even be aware that hes doing so.
Now imagine that the device hes using, comes from a company that makes it's money by gathering as much data about people as possible.
Geez, I wonder why people took issue with that ...
If your are constantly tracked by cameras on every street, every shopping centre and every bit of public transport. If every movement of your phone and car are recorded and logged by Palantir, do you storm the Home Office or just shrug and say 'at least it keeps us safe from terrorists' ?
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I’ve heard about glass holes but, rather like the supposed threat of being cancelled, I’ve never seen it myself.
Other than once seeing someone (a colleague) wearing one of those Microsoft helmets (whose name escapes me), I haven’t seen a headset of any kind since the old Virtuality headset that I saw at a conference once, years ago.
So, whilst I’m sure they’re out there, I’m not sure that they’re having enough impact that their users should earn such an epithet. Certainly not when there are actual fatalities being caused by people dicking around on their phones whilst driving.
Those Miscrosoft helmets were quite fashionable, all the way back to Jean-Marc Côté's 1910 view of "En l'an 2000: A l'école [...]" (top-left image). ISTR MS using this image in an ad, in late 80's or early 90's Byte magazine or AI Expert. The (past's) future is now!
There is something around the lapse in the perception of reality that wearing a VR headset causes… a lapse in Vision. Some kind of Vision Pro lapse of awareness…
I’m sure they’ve had their marketing department work hard in avoiding any easy ones but I have faith El Reg can get to the bottom of it
Half my life or more is spent in front of a screen anyway. I can't imagine why anyone would want to take the small amount of time one gets to enjoy watching the scenery pass, on the drive to and from work, and put another screen on it. Why exactly would someone do that? For what reason or reward?
OK so assuming one was RIDING in a car/train/bus not behind the wheel, maybe they'd rather watch a movie than see the scenery. Not everyone lives in the mountains with breathtaking views, some people commute to work on highways lined with strip malls and gas stations.
I mean most people on public transit have their head buried in their phones anyway, not sure why I should care if they have something strapped to their head. Heck it might even be good for you - a lot of doctors are saying that neck/upper spine problems result from that "stoop" people have hunched over their phones for long periods of time. Being able to have your head at a normal level using an AVP is probably better in that respect at least.
Heck come to think of it, if I had an hour commute on a train each day I might consider $3500 worth it. Probably save that much in chiropractor bills over a few years lol
I wouldn't use them roaming around but I was doing a job that involved a lot of travelling around the time Oculus was available on Samsung devices. Sitting in a waiting lounge, it was nice to escape into a virtual cinema. The biggest two annoyances were the lack of awareness and that, being run on my phone, I had to be meticulous about cleaning the screen before use because a dust particle would be enormous and clear. I wouldn't spend $3500 for a more polished version of this but under £1k, I'd be sorely tempted.
Counterintuitively, I also found it quite good for relieving motion sickness on ships, though the vessel turning would require some manual resetting of the device as my chair in the "cinema" turned.
It wouldn't be too difficult for it to determine if the wearer was driving (i.e. sees a steering wheel) and disable all apps and work in pass thru mode only. That would defeat the purpose of idiots wanting to wear it to check their email while they falsely believe their Tesla is able to self drive without their attention being required.
IANAL
Apple might be liable if they implemented such a feature and it failed (maybe the car has an unorthodox steering wheel). They might be on firmer legal ground if they just assert that it up to the user to use it responsibly.
Also, maybe someone might want to use it at home sat behind the wheel of their home racing simulator.
Also, maybe someone might want to use it at home sat behind the wheel of their home racing simulator.
It could tell a real car apart by the motion (once you move beyond GPS error bar distance that's not a home racing simulator)
But point taken about the liability. Sadly in the US someone probably would sue Apple for implementing a safety feature that wasn't perfect and resulted in the death of a family member, instead of assigning 100% of the liability where it belongs, on the idiot behind the wheel.
And I suppose it is really Tesla's problem to fix that people are able to get them to self drive without paying attention. They're trying to do via "are hands on the steering wheel" but you'd be able to do that while wearing an AVP or a blindfold for that matter. What they should have is a camera in the cabin that verifies your eyes are open and (with exceptions allowed for a few seconds here or there) looking at the road.
As of quite recently, they do. Personal knowledge has the 3 and the Y containing a cabin camera just above the rear view mirror.
A recent software update has enabled this camera in a driver monitoring capacity and if it believes you're not paying attention it will start the "Apply force to steering wheel" prompt. If you don't react within a couple of seconds it will force disengage the AP. If you fail this prompt 5 times it will disable AP functionality for a week. According to the owner groups I'm part of they are quite displeased with this change...
Tesla do claim the output of the cabin camera doesn't leave the vehicle, unlike the external cameras.
" "I pulled to the right most lane, turned on Autopilot, and put the headset on for the video," Lentini told us via email. "I wasn't pulled over, hence didn't receive any ticket." "
Why does this brain surgeon think that he would have to be pulled over to be ticketed. It's commonplace, but if you get spotted doing something illegal, you aren't off the hook if you turn into a mall and park up. Even if you make it home and get inside before being tackled, there's no "get out of jail free" card for that.
anyone who's watched (or listened to the original radio-4) Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, will know that Zaphod Beeblebrox had sun glasses that turned black when something frightening happened to him.
The apple glassholes are unique in that they are not "augmented reality" in the conventional sense, but instead VR where the camera image is overlayed behind the VR images.. and consequently go black during in an accident. The other feature is that you don't "see" someone eyes, but an OLED display that projects an image taken from the inside of the glassholes, for that authentic second-head appearance.
going to message the Douglas Adams estate, in case they fancy a few million quid for "prior art" patent infringement: Douglas would love that!
I don't condone bullying, but these glassholes deserve a beating, an atomic wedgy, a toilet water shampooing session (with their stupid glasses on) and a short stay in the nearest Locker Inn location. I see those videos of some of those virgin morons waking around, moving their arms, walking proud and tall pretending to be the way of the future. To make things worse, they all do it pretending that all this is normal. I just simply can't contain my contempt for them. wtf?
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