Passthrough Headsets Like Apple's Pose Unstudied Risks of Altering Perception of Reality
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Passthrough headsets like Apple Vision Pro capture reality and reproduce it, which could have weird consequences for our brains over time by changing how we perceive the world.
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Using passthrough for long periods causes issues like nausea, distorted perception of distances and sizes, and social absence where people seem unreal.
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As people adapt to altered perceptions in headsets, reality starts looking wrong when the headsets come off, with effects lasting longer the more time spent in VR.
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Passthrough lets headsets delete and replace parts of reality with anything, leading to billions of unshared hallucinations and loss of common ground.
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We don't know the long-term societal impacts but research is urgently needed as these issues get worse at scale with widespread daily extended use.