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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I believe AR overlays information about the real world where as mixed reality just shows you the real world with a few apps floating about

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, AR analyses your world and you and gives you more info about the reality, Mixed Reality just has your screens attend into the world without interacting with it. The only thing I saw that was really AR was the use with a MacBook as a screen.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

    AR and MR or more pretty much interchangeable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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"

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