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Imagine walking or driving when your AR gets hijacked, you could be at risk of walking into traffic or crashing the vehicle.

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Imagine not wearing a distracting device while you are in traffic.

I could see a driving mode being useful since you could do things with nothing but your eyes leaving your hands free.

Because you don't need your eyes when driving? The thought of people driving around and multi tasking with their AR goggles gives me the heebie-jeebies.

As opposed to looking at a map?

It's always something with you folks.

You're not supposed to be looking at a map while driving. Eyes on the road.

You look at a map before leaving... not while you're driving. So you try to navigate and drive at the same time!?

That should be illegal. It removes a huge part of your field of vision.

We already have countless studies that talking on your phone while driving is really bad for reaction times and accident rates, even in hands-free setups. I can only imagine who much worse these numbers will look if you add distractions for your eyes to the mix.

Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TlkzcIel_pY

This person should lose their licence.

That will definitely prevent them from driving.

In this case, I think the stupidity is also sufficient to confiscate the vehicle in some jurisdictions.

I'm all for it.

what a sucker lol

That open mouth... We're heading full speed into K.Laumer's "Cocoon".

I wonder how that image is generated? The Cybertruck doesn’t have FSD yet. I also read that Apple was blocking the AVP from working when it detected you were moving fast. That they had to make special provisions to allow the AVP to work on planes.

So you can't use it as a backseat passenger to watch movies?

Possibly, thanks to assholes as depicted in that video (which may be fictional). Apple does not want the liability or reputational damage from enabling someone driving a car and getting into a wreck, even if that prevents some other uses.

FYI - I don’t know what the rules are that they put into place and what I read was based on comments from some early demos that Apple was giving so it remains to be seen what you actually can and cannot do while wearing one. I’m sure that this will start to come out now that people are using these in the field.

Not all AR devices are something you wear. Lots of cars have a heads up display which is basically projecting information onto the windshield.

There's a huge difference between camera pass-through and some transparent reflections on the glass that you can dodge away from.

For sure.

I’d just hate for AR to become synonymous with head mounted displays instead of a more general definition.

If only there was a way to prevent this

Avoiding any walking or driving? Sure, I guess, but most people can't stay at home forever any more than they could avoid using a phone.

You can still walk or drive - just take the headset off to do it…

How are you supposed to know when the headset is going to fail though??? I guess in some failure modes you might anticipate it failing, but surely not all… (/s)

But walking with your headset on can be a part of the value proposition, by adding some metadata to what you see. Imagine being shown directions in an unfamiliar place. Or seeing a distant bus and being told that this is the bus you're trying to catch. Once the technology becomes popular people will find a lot of reasons to walk with their headsets on.

maybe with less intrusive and lighter optical AR glasses that do not cover all your field of view, walking around the city would be more possible. But expecting to go around the streets or even drive with a huge AR headset is unreasonable for our times.

The people who wish for this future are a complete mistery to me.

The problem is I get all this already on my phone without wearing a $3500 mask.

It doesn't even make sense. What do you want blinking arrows on the ground to show the way instead of the much superior way of just looking at google maps now?

Who would want such a world? This is technology looking for a problem to solve instead of the other way around.

I guess a future version will see that you're sitting in a driver's seat and will go crazy telling you to take it off. Although I wonder what it can do, going dark will be dangerous if someone is actually driving, I suppose it can threaten to revoke your device license..

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