Beware: The Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways

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[–]doginventer 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

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[–]WoodyWoodPecker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought only gay people buy Apple products? I got an Android.

[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone always freaks out about new consumer technology, and the freak-out is almost always the same. The new form of sensory input will harm kids! It's a dangerous distraction! It's socially alienating! They said it about the iPhone, about the Walkman … hell, half a millennium ago they said it about the book. New technologies arrive, and we adapt.

I disagree with this statement. I lived though the early days of the walkman. First, only a faily small group of people used them, About 10-20%. Boom boxes were far more popular. A walkman was for getting from point a to b or during exercise.

The fear of the walkman technology was being hit by a bus or getting robbed. Basically a fear of people not paying attention and unlike the smartphone, you stopped using your walkman in a social situation.

Noone ever talked about the walkman completely upending society. The smartphone and (now AR) have completely changed the mindset and perceptions of now multiple generations.

I do not believe that changes and benefits of this technology have been a net improvement for us as a society.

[–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It will be "harder to agree on what constitutes reality."

There is only one truth. Everything else is falsity. These corporations are trying to get into our minds, which could cause us to believe a lie.

Long-term use of passthrough headsets could make it easier to think of other people as unhumans — non-player characters in a gamified, uncanny valley.

These devices could quench the user's love for his fellow man, isolating him in a sphere of confusion.