NASA's former engineer popular YouTuber is reporting that Apple is developing VR for automatic driving cars

It is a former NASA engineer and you can experiment with water bath size "fluidized bed" that YouTuber develops ultra-gigantic water gun which can make watermelon with water pressure as watertight and hard sand becomes wave like liquid Variety of the news media tells Rober that he is an engineer on Apple's special project.

YouTube Star Mark Rober Developing VR for Apple's Self-Driving Cars - Variety
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/youtube-maerk-rober-apple-vr-1202858396/

Apple Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober Working on Anti-Motion Sickness VR Technology for Use in Autonomous Vehicles - Mac Rumors
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/06/26/apple-vr-technology-autonomous-vehicles/

Rober is Youtuber with over 3 million followers and has posted numerous movies so far. For example, the movie "Weigh the pee in a pool" has been played over 8 million times until the time of article creation.

How to measure HOW MUCH PEE IS IN YOUR POOL - YouTube


It seems that Rober is participating in Apple's project that was the theme "AR · VR with automatic driving car" theme. Variety lists " immersive virtual display " and " extended virtual display " which are VR systems for automatic driving cars that Apple applied for a patent in March as an item considered to be involved by Rober. Both of the VR technologies are related to lightening the car sickness when riding in an automatic driving car, and according to the movement experienced by the rider, a real world image is placed on the VR headset It is aimed at reducing the car sickness and raising the performance in the car by displaying it.

In addition, as a VR for in-car entertainment, it is thought that VR utilization in the form of "The book author or the host of the program appears next to the seat on which the user is seated and reads a book or proceeds the program" about.

Apple originally focused on AR rather than VR , but in April 2018 it is reported that " Headsets that both VR & ARs can enjoy are under development and will be on sale in 2020". In addition, because the augmented reality startup "Metaio" acquired by Apple in 2015 cooperates with automobile manufacturers such as Audi and BMW, the combination of "AR" and "automatic driving car" is assumed.

Rober's Linkedin profile says "I am working at a company as a product engineer," but the name of the company is hidden. Also, on an overseas bulletin board reddit Rober said to fans, "I am working at a big technology company in the Bay Area" and "We are working on products that have not yet been released".

In addition, Apple did not comment on this subject, Rober also said that it did not respond to Variety at the time of article creation.