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Comment by danjoredd | Hacker News Reader

This is going to be used for so much porn...

That might be a good sign if it is, just because it would mean the headset isn't "locked down" inside a walled garden of approved apps and content.

Does it have Safari?

I think I saw the Safari icon. I do not see why they would limit it.

It'll be locked down. Facetime will do just fine for this purpose.

Apple isn't policing what multimedia you view and what websites you browse.

Oh sweet summer notarized child...

"locked down" means what apps you can install.

Indeed - and optimized ;)

"FaceTime on Vision Pro can display life-sized individuals over video calls. There is an optimized experience for viewing photos and videos."

I don't think this particular device will be, but I can't imagine it will take long for others to start working on alternative hardware and software combinations to do this, similarly to how much effort is being put into using LLMs to generate explicit content right now.

This is actually a win if u could actually do that against apple lockdown and their stance against porn

Assuming it can be jailbroken..because Apple sure as hell isn't going to let that happen natively.

> because Apple sure as hell isn't going to let that happen natively.

How are they going to prevent going to a website and streaming video? Or having a (private?) session with a model on some messaging/streaming app?

Neither of those will have 3D capabilities or be able to use any of their spatial APIs. Seeing regular 2D photos/videos on a VR headset is nothing special.

I didn't hear anything like cryptography being used to restrict 3D images to only ones from your device (or even only other Vision Pros), seems like an enterprising studio could just buy one to record with if there's really no way to get existing videos onto it (is there an eye-contact issue with existing content? seems like this could solve that if there is).

Nudity detection

Where porn can be played, it will always be played. They teamed up with Unity3d to make app development easier so I guarantee someone can make VR porn with that and find some workarounds to get it working

Apple sure as hell doesn't care what you use the headset for if you pony up the money for the headset lol (outside of the obvious, i.e. illegal stuff)

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