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Exactly. If you want to do anything without going through Apple's benediction, you're shit out of luck. It's one more episode in the war on general computing, e

Exactly. If you want to do anything without going through Apple's benediction, you're shit out of luck. It's one more episode in the war on general computing, except somehow it's okay when Apple restricts what you can do with your three thousand five hundred dollar ski goggles.

toasterrepair 3y ago
It's okay for the general user.
zgluck 3y ago
Yeah. To state the obvious: Apps will no longer run full screen; they will run as a 2D window in a 3D space. When Apple allows it the user will be able to ask the app to go full 3D (well, hopefully). All of this is: Apple taking further control of the experience.
kitsunesoba 3y ago
To me it seems like less of a war on general computing and more like Apple is hoping to prevent mixed reality or "spatial computing" from becoming an extension on the privacy disaster that smartphones became. This seems prudent, because as personal as smartphones are, a headset like the Vision Pro dials that up tenfold. Considering what third parties have done with just the information surfaced in mobile operating systems, or heck even the web, I shudder to think of what they'd do with gaze data and a high fidelity color 3D map of your surroundings.
- archagon 3y ago
  That’s great for the general case, but it should be also possible for a user to do whatever they want with their own hardware.
  - kitsunesoba 3y ago
    If there's a way to accomplish this without opening headset users into being easily socially engineered into figuratively selling the farm, sure. In this particular case I think perhaps a better approach would be to allow apps to bypass App Store restrictions so long as their source code is public and binaries match that code. This would naturally deter those with shady intentions, allow FOSS projects to thrive, allow both manual and automated third party vetting of apps, and help users better know what they're getting into.

toasterrepair 3y ago

It's okay for the general user.

zgluck 3y ago

Yeah. To state the obvious: Apps will no longer run full screen; they will run as a 2D window in a 3D space. When Apple allows it the user will be able to ask the app to go full 3D (well, hopefully). All of this is: Apple taking further control of the experience.

kitsunesoba 3y ago

To me it seems like less of a war on general computing and more like Apple is hoping to prevent mixed reality or "spatial computing" from becoming an extension on the privacy disaster that smartphones became. This seems prudent, because as personal as smartphones are, a headset like the Vision Pro dials that up tenfold. Considering what third parties have done with just the information surfaced in mobile operating systems, or heck even the web, I shudder to think of what they'd do with gaze data and a high fidelity color 3D map of your surroundings.

archagon 3y ago
That’s great for the general case, but it should be also possible for a user to do whatever they want with their own hardware.
- kitsunesoba 3y ago
  If there's a way to accomplish this without opening headset users into being easily socially engineered into figuratively selling the farm, sure. In this particular case I think perhaps a better approach would be to allow apps to bypass App Store restrictions so long as their source code is public and binaries match that code. This would naturally deter those with shady intentions, allow FOSS projects to thrive, allow both manual and automated third party vetting of apps, and help users better know what they're getting into.