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There is no denying the fact Apple Vision Pro is one of the greatest advancements in the world of mixed-reality.
The so-called “spatial computer” allows its users to multitask and interact with both the real and digital worlds at the same time using motion gestures, eye tracking, and speech recognition.
However, just like any other form of digital technology, the Apple Vision Pro has its bugs.
As in, hackers have now figured out how to fill a Apple Vision Pro user’s room with virtual spiders. Oh, and bats… with sound.
And all it took to have these bugs and spiders invading your mixed-reality room was to visit the wrong website in Safari.
This “bug” was recently discovered and discussed in a recent article by researcher Ryan Pickren titled “The World’s First Spatial Computing Hack.”
”And here is the fun part – Safari does not enforce any type of permission model on this feature,” he continued. “Furthermore, it does not even require this anchor tag to have been “clicked” by the human. So programatic JavaScript clicking (i.e. document.querySelector(‘a’).click()) works no problem! This means that we can launch an arbitrary number of 3D, animated, sound-creating, objects without any user interaction whatsoever.
”If the victim just views our website in Vision Pro, we can instantly fill their room with hundreds of crawling spiders and screeching bats! Freaky stuff.”
As if all of that isn’t bad enough, he also added, “Closing Safari does not get rid of them” and “there is no obvious way to get rid of them besides manually running around the room to physically tap each one.”
Apple has since addressed the bugs and spiders bug, but considering how “surprisingly easy” it was to make this hack work, according to Pickren, it’s only a matter of time before another one has to be squashed.