Drivers using Apple Vision Pro headsets prompt road safety concerns

My MQ 3 refuses to work in the passenger seat in a moving car, it pops up a dialog box that says tracking has failed, maybe you can tell it to run without tracking but I never managed to hit the button. I saw a video where somebody has the same thing happen on the NY subway with an AVP.<p>For spatial computing to really work properly in a vehicle I think you need to keep track of both the world coordinate system and one that tracks the vehicle. In particular a lot of info from the IMU will have to be thrown out. It is probably useful to track small head motions but objects will drift eventually because of the vehicle as a whole accelerating and decelerating.

What happens when the Vision Pro runs out of battery or the software crashes? Does the display fail in a see-through mode, or are you suddenly faced with a quite literal blue screen of death?

FFS what kind of utter assholes think this kind of thing is remotely ok.

Maybe controversial, but I don&#x27;t personally see an intrinsic problem with people wearing these things while driving so long as the passthrough is sufficiently low latency and has high enough resolution&#x2F;fov. Of course the running apps need to not be too distracting, depending on how autonomous the car is. I could honestly see them being a net positive to road focus by overlaying speed and navigation on the user&#x27;s field of vision so they don&#x27;t have to glance at their dash speedometer or navigation device all the time. Only fundamental problem is how reliable the passthrough is, but it would take all of a second to whip the headset off if it suddenly went blank for some reason (which would be dangerous, but doesn&#x27;t seem to be likely and most drivers regularly experience worse obstructions than that hypothetical one).

Yay; one more thing that state police departments will selectively enforce.

Yeah someone had to be the first idiot.<p>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things.