This morning, I remembered that I forgot to order my solar eclipse glasses, and I wondered out loud: Would it be a bad idea to watch today’s eclipse with an Apple Vision Pro?I am very no Camera guy, but I seem to remember that pointing a camera at the sun is bad.However, the answers online vary greatly, so I put the question here. edgeof Emmy Award-winning senior video producer Becca Farsace.
Her response was that the Vision Pro was expensive; it had a lot of cameras; and it wasn’t worth the risk. She added: “Wes you are a free spirit! You can do whatever you want but if I saw this on the internet I would be so pissed that someone spent so much money out there doing this Do.”
She’s right; I’m a free soul! Challenge accepted, Becca.
Okay, okay, maybe a friend gave me a pair of eclipse glasses. Putting them on the Vision Pro’s camera lets me pursue my wicked digital sun-gazing ambitions (which I’m already cringing at, by the way) without risking my very expensive headphones.
So, yes, you can watch a solar eclipse with Vision Pro, as long as you don’t mind a big “tracking failed” error message popping up in the middle of the view telling you it’s too dark outside.
if you are willing to return Like pointing your camera at the sun (eclipse or not), Becca offers additional tips in the video below.