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Stabitha_Christie said:

As for people recording in public goes, it is perfectly legal and you don’t need to get consent. Further, removing a Vision Pro from someone would be considered assault. So, y you might want to reconsider your plan unless you want a criminal record. 

Here in Europe we have this GDPR (general data protection regulation), and sure you need to get consent. But even in America, I’m pretty sure you won’t just let it be “perfectly legal”, when some stranger comes to you, pointing his iPhnoe on you with rised arms. Just imagine, you immediately realize you’re being recorded and naturally, defending your privacy. You still have a choice to step out of the angle.
And that’s the difference! VP is pointing where your head do, but you can’t really tell, if you’re being actively observed or not. And your choice of stepping out the view is also compromised, since it’s an array of cameras with wide angle overall.

graphicsguy said:

Wow, dude. Do you push people off wheelchairs if they take too much time going through a door? There may be very legit medical and accessibility uses for VP in the very near future. Do you carry a can of spray paint to blot out all the security cameras that see you on the roads, in elevators, in stores, in pubic places, etc? Do you duct tape the mouths of people whose voices you don't want to hear? Going out in public is the very definition of giving up a bit of privacy so as to be a part of the world around us. Asking people to not focus on you is one thing, but the threat of physically attacking someone is, well... you might want to seek help. You can ASK people not to record you, and you can also get up and walk away. But you don't own that public space any more than the guy wearing the VP.

You’re trying to compare uncomparable here. Of course I don’t offend people on wheelchairs, but seriously, even your security camera example. It has another funcition, than *publicizing*. Also the social reach of security camera is near zero, in compare with some strangers youtube channel “I’m staring at people in the subway, come stare at them with me!”. Going out is giving up a bit of privacy.. yes, before a couple of eyes around you, and just in time, memorized abstractly as human brain do, non-transferable.
Going thru all your arguments about spray, voices, etc.. I’m realizing you don’t understand deeply the privacy issue here. Or more, you don’t want to understand. Still I’m Apple tech fan like you.

No matter how usable VP is in public space, since it is able to record the screen - thus to record me, but not giving a clue about it (you saw the video? the old guy seemed uncomfortable next to him, naturaly), I will be asking VP wearers to put the headset off the head. If they won’t comply and would continue pointing their head in inappropriate wide angle towards me (which is almost 180deg) I’ll put VP off their head myself.

I don’t see public use of Vision Pro acceptable.

Very nice article! I’ve enjoyed, thank you!

Somebody wearing a device capable of video recording, facing my direction, is like a person pointing it's phone at me. The difference is, that you can recognize the person holding the phone that way, that it's probably recording.. and you can make your choice stepping out of that space, or ask the person like what's going on. While with the person wearing headset, you can't tell. You should always assume he does.
I'm not seeing any defensible people using such device in the public space. I would be rigorously asking them to put it off, no matter how they will be proclaiming they're not recording, or object mesh scanning, or if Apple will make some green dot appearing on the exterior. And I will be as rigorous, as when I met a guy with google glass, sitting in front of me in public transport. Count with some broken, hell expensive glasses and try to sue.

Apple Vision Pro is great, impressive product, for minor community of in-house users.

BiC said:

That is a hard task.  Good on them though.  Here's the real deal though - Apple has so much coin in the bank - Why not help those developers and get more coin.  Get it native.  It's mind boggling.

Why should Apple take care of native support of concurent 3D rendering libs, when they are not supported even under Windows for ARM itself?