Engineer Surprises Apple by Finding a Way to ‘End’ Virtual Spiders

Apple Vision users encounter problems with digital spiders and bats

If there is an Apple product that you like special interest They are expected in the first seven months of the year VisionPro. After more than ten years of rumorsThe company confirmed the existence of its mixed reality hardware in mid-2023 and put the device on sale in mid-2023. February 2024 However, despite his incredible reception in the business sectorthe team did not complete the sales work as well as expected, and The excitement died down after a few months..

However, as the portal reports PC gamer

V recent publicationVision Pro users are in luck thanks to a recent discovery. Apparently, Apple WebKit was able to support the old display standard 3D models which, in short, allows render animated objects through glasses. So, with a simple code, any website can set up VisionOS Safari for rendering 3D models. And this, surprisingly, has been used by many users to give life giant spiders And bats screech.

A Blessing for Those Who Suffer from Arachnophobia

As the original source points out, this technique also made it possible add spatial sound so that the sound effects seemed to come from the animation. Thus, the models selected for inclusion in Vision Pro included big spiders And the batstwo of the most curious bets that ultimately backfired on users. Unfortunately for him, shutting down Safari wasn’t enough to remove animation

because they were controlled A quick look and the only way to “finish” them was touching them manually.

However, luck has smiled on all those who are afraid of spiders and bats, thanks to the work of Apple itself. Thus, the company has solved this problem by update 1.2 which launched in June last year. In fact, Apple rewarded Ryan Pickren

the researcher who discovered the bug and reported it to the company. The incident thus raises interesting possibilities on the use of 3D animation and spatial sound in virtual reality.

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