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by PaulHoule 868 days ago
My MQ 3 refuses to work in the passenger seat in a moving car, it pops up a dialog box that says tracking has failed, maybe you can tell it to run without tracking but I never managed to hit the button. I saw a video where somebody has the same thing happen on the NY subway with an AVP.

For spatial computing to really work properly in a vehicle I think you need to keep track of both the world coordinate system and one that tracks the vehicle. In particular a lot of info from the IMU will have to be thrown out. It is probably useful to track small head motions but objects will drift eventually because of the vehicle as a whole accelerating and decelerating.

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The Vision Pro works in the passenger seat if you turn on travel mode, ideally prior to starting to move. It would probably allow for you to use it in the driver’s seat as well, but I’m not quite insane enough to check.

Windows in this mode stick to the relative position of your head, but they stay fixed relative to the orientation. The pass through is pretty good, even at night, low latency and good enough clarity for seeing cars and stuff.

Even still an airbag to the face with that in won't be pretty.
We’ll see how good the pass through is then, I suppose.
I haven't tested it myself, but it appears that it does[1].

1. https://www.tiktok.com/@alan_drives/video/733200801928426628...