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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)

submitted 9 months ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're describing the difference between "passthrough" AR, and "look through" (or "optical") AR.

AR and MR or more pretty much interchangeable.

[–] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so. For example with true AR you could look at something like a bus and have it tell you information like the schedule, route, if it's running on time etc. This is done automatically and without user interaction. What the Vison Pro does is give you floating apps you can interact with

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

There is nothing about the Vision Pro that prevents that from happening other than they haven't implemented it.

The ~~ability~~ feature to automatically give you information about arbitrary things you're looking at isn't a requirement for "true AR".

I'm not really defending vision pro, it seems pretty limited. But that doesn't make it "not true AR" and MR doesn't mean "crappy/inferior AR"