Augmented Reality Safety

Description

A headset isn't another screen.

It's a sensor package that maps the inside of your home, tracks where your child looks, records the people around them, and replaces their view of the room they're standing in.

Most of the risk that follows is manageable — with settings you can change in an afternoon and habits you can set in a week. This handbook tells you which ones actually matter.

What's inside

• The device taxonomy — five products are now sold as "AR", and the risks follow the category, not the brand. Work out which one is in your house.
• Spatial privacy — why a 3D model of your home behaves nothing like a photograph, what eye tracking really reveals, and the bystander problem nobody consents to.
• Physical safety — the three ways children actually get hurt, a measured play-space specification, session limits, and the rules for glasses outdoors.
• Other people — why immersive harassment lands harder than the on-screen kind, and what the platform controls genuinely do.
• Your household policy — age guidance, a first-hour setup routine, warning signs, and how supervision should change from 8 to 17.

Honest about what isn't known

Every substantive claim is marked established, contested or unknown. A guide that treats everything as equally alarming gets ignored — and the things worth acting on get lost. This one tells you which is which.

Six printable appendices

Pre-purchase questions · Privacy and safety audit · Signable family agreement · Play-space plan · Incident log · UK help routes (ICO, CEOP, NSPCC, Childline)

Specification

• 18 pages, A4, PDF
• 21 sections across five parts, plus six printable appendices
• Written for UK families — includes UK reporting routes and regulatory guidance
• Instant download after checkout
• Current as of July 2026

Also available: US Edition, with COPPA, state biometric and recording-consent law, and US Letter sizing.