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Andy Edser

Excellent news—Apple Vision Pro headsets can no longer be filled with VR spiders

A still from a YouTube video showing a man with his mouth agape while using the Apple Vision Pro VR headset.

An admission: I am not a fan of big spiders. I'm especially not a fan of big spiders right up in my face, which is why I'm glad I've never experienced an issue a researcher discovered with the Apple Vision Pro headset—which allowed them to create a website that displayed giant animated arachnids and screeching bats in a wearers field of vision.

Ryan Pickren, master of mischief, discovered that Apple's WebKit still supported an older 3D model viewing standard that allowed them to render animated objects on an Apple Vision Pro (via Futurism). With a simple bit of code, any website could be configured to instruct visionOS Safari to treat certain links as instructions to render 3D models, displaying them on the Vision Pro's high-resolution internal screens as if they were in the room.

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