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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.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can assure you, there exists no such consensus on the definition of any of the terms.

The most universal you’ll get for AR is the combination of primarily real-world with some digital aspects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality–virtuality_continuum

I’ve read extensively on the topic. Albeit a couple of years ago.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

According to that page I'd consider this headset to be augmented virtuality. But yeah these are all gray areas