- A user named Dante posted a video of himself getting pulled over for driving a Tesla while wearing the new Apple Vision Pro glasses
- Dante posted the video on Friday, the same day the $3,500 headsets hit the market
- On its safety information page, Apple expressly warns against driving with glasses
Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro launched on Friday and one user shared a video about what not to do with the new technology – driving a hands-free Tesla.
A decision where he saw blue lights in his vision.
On Friday, the day the virtual reality headset was released, a user named Dante posted a video on X – formerly known as Twitter – of himself driving a Tesla while wearing the new technology.
The video shows him wearing gray pants and a black long-sleeved shirt, driving along a highway in an unknown location while holding the Apple Vision Pro in front of his eyes.
At some point he took both hands off the steering wheel and appeared to be touching a screen that was only visible on the virtual headset.
The 25-second clip, posted on Twitter, directly shows him being pulled over by police. Dante sits in a parking lot as the police car drives behind him with its lights on.
A user named Dante posted a video of himself driving a Tesla while wearing the new Apple Vision Pro
At some point both hands are off the steering wheel and he is eventually stopped by an unknown police agency
It is unknown where he was driving or which police agency stopped him. His Twitter account states that he lives in Palo Alto, California.
The Apple Vision Pro safety information page on the company's website specifically prohibits using the headset while driving.
“Never use Apple Vision Pro while driving a moving vehicle, bicycle, heavy machinery, or in other situations where safety is important,” the website says.
The headset was launched in September alongside the iPhone 15 family. It's more than five times more expensive than the competing Meta Quest 3, but Apple sold out pre-orders for the device on January 19th – 200,000 units were reserved.
While the headset starts at nearly $3,500, customers can purchase upgrades like memory and prescription inserts for $149.
It runs on VisionOS, which Apple touts as “the world’s first spatial operating system.”
Apple calls it “spatial computing” because it places content in the space around you.
Spatial computing is a way to describe the interface between the physical world around us and a virtual world created by technology, while enabling humans and machines to harmoniously manipulate objects and spaces.
A person wearing tan pants and a gray sweatshirt uses the headset while sitting in a New York City subway car and typing in the air
Apple officially launched the new $3,500 Vision Pro in stores on Friday, and fans have been posting videos of themselves using the new technology in everyday life. A man crosses the street wearing the Apple headset
Elements of augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence are often used to accomplish these tasks.
There are more than 600 new apps designed for the headset, and virtual experiences include taking part in an Alicia Keys recording session, walking a tightrope and petting a dinosaur.
Video of the Apple device shared on social media shows a person wearing tan pants and a gray sweatshirt using the headset while sitting in a New York City subway car and typing in the air.
In San Jose, California, a man wearing white pants and a black shirt recorded himself walking on the street with the headset on, stopping to point at things only he could see on his screen.
In London, a video shows a man in a suit wearing the headset walking his robot dog on the street.
There are more than 600 new apps designed for the headset, and virtual experiences include taking part in an Alicia Keys recording session, walking a tightrope and petting a dinosaur
A 2016 episode of The Simpsons predicted some scenes of people walking the streets wearing virtual reality headsets.
In the episode, Mr. Burns hired Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie to play his virtual real estate family, which eventually becomes a technology that everyone has access to.
A montage shows all the Simpsons characters wearing virtual reality sets running into lampposts and falling into potholes.
Principal Seymour Skinner has a virtual picnic and Homer and Marge lie side by side in bed while they virtually kiss.