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The "Conductive Distraction and De-escalation devices" manufactured by Compliant Technologies can cause a person to drop to the ground in pain with one touch.Mother Jones illustration; GLOVE user manual/Compliant Technologies Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purchased electric shock gloves for his officers after learning about them at a trade show. And his employees, he said, couldn’t get enough of them. “If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands,” Glueck joked on a podcast interview a couple of years later. “They’ve grown really attached.” The shock gloves, he went on to explain, allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that could look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits. “In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But “the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” The gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies, have been used by police, sheriffs, jail wardens, and even school resource officers for years. They’ve been described by groups like Amnesty International as “readily misused for torture.” And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them. The device is called a GLOVE, which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. It looks like a regular padded black utility glove, but when the wearer presses a small button on the glove’s wrist, it produces a painful electric shock. Nelson County, Ky., jailer Justin Hall shows an electric shock glove that is used at his facility, Thursday, Aug. 13, in Bardstown, Ky. Dylan Lovan/AP “We have a saying: Feeling is believing,” Compliant Technologies CEO Jeff Niklaus said in one 2022 YouTube video. In promotional clips, you can see people losing control of their limbs, falling to the ground, and crying out in pain after a light touch from the GLOVE. In 2022, the company called it a “weapon” in Instagram posts. Since then, though, it’s downgraded the language to “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation device,” branding the technology on its website as “humane.” Human rights organizations like Amnesty International have long raised concerns about electric shock devices like the GLOVE, as well as other products that Compliant Technologies sells, like electric shock belts and vests, which the company recommends for prisoner transport, courtroom use, and use on “combative individuals” during medical procedures like blood draws. The technology is unregulated “despite the clear human rights risks associated with its use,” Amnesty International researchers wrote in a 2025 report detailing instances in which electric-shock devices have been used for torture. The report ends with a recommendation that countries “cease use of, decommission and destroy any stockpiles of such prohibited electric shock weapons.” Yumna Rizvi, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Victims of Torture, called the gloves “inherently abusive equipment that facilitates torture.” Some police departments that use the devices issue guidance saying they shouldn’t be deployed against pregnant women, the elderly, or people in shackles. A 2021 user manual for the GLOVE notes that it can cause an “increase in blood pressure” and “changes in heart rhythm,” and recommends that users avoid shocking “those with obvious health conditions.” The manual also includes a graphic saying “evil is powerless when the good are unafraid,” laid over a Blue Lives Matter flag. “How in the world is ICE just going to be walking around with these gloves?” Rizvi asked. “It is inherently harmful. It has no legitimate law enforcement purpose.” “Our officers are highly trained in de-escalation tactics and regularly receive ongoing use of force training,” an ICE spokesperson told _Mother Jones_ ; Compliant Technologies did not respond to a request for comment. The devices “will be issued to Homeland Security Investigations (H.S.I.) and Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers and agents,” according to a notice DHS published August 10. They will be delivered by the end of March 2027. Compliant Technologies was founded in 2018 by Jeff Niklaus, a former Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Afghanistan and Somalia, who believes that President Donald Trump has been “anointed” by God. He is also a sometime conspiracy theorist: In a podcast interview in 2025, he blamed the fatal crash of a passenger plane and a military helicopter on “the vaccines,” and on the Biden administration’s inclusion of women and LGBTQ people in the military. In an interview with the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association last month, Niklaus said he was inspired to start his company after participating in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, on which the book _Black Hawk Down_ is based. “If you look at the why…I mean, we lost 18 guys in one day,” Niklaus said. (Hundreds of Somali people were killed on that day, alongside 18 Americans.) “So, for me personally, if we can help save or stop the injury of at least 18 people, then I feel like we did something as a company,” he said. But his technology has also hurt people. A pending wrongful death lawsuit alleges that a 43-year-old man named Jonathan Mansfield died because corrections officers shocked him 27 times with the gloves and 13 times with a Taser. Two of the glove shocks lasted 45 and 99 seconds. The manufacturer’s recommended limit is 15 seconds. A man with heart problems sued over allegations that he was shocked at a Las Vegas trade show, as the Associated Press reported. And in 2023, a man who was incarcerated in Kentucky’s Bullitt County Jail sued an employee of that jail for shocking him repeatedly with the gloves. “The gloves feel just like a taser,” Josh Elswick, who was in handcuffs and shackles when he was shocked, said. Bullitt County Jail representatives told local media they would stop using electric shock gloves shortly thereafter. But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It’s been successful “from the patrolmen to the jailers,” Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. “It’s been a great tool as far as mitigating liability,” according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall. Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department sung the GLOVE’s praises, too: “I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that’s looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits.”

We’re looking for more people to interview. Shared Visions is telling the story of the people building, creating, experimenting, and working with Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, and we want that story to represent more than the people already in our immediate circles. We’re especially interested in meeting **women, international creators, artists, designers, filmmakers, researchers, and people working inside companies that are building for Apple Vision Pro**. We’d also love to hear from people bringing perspectives and backgrounds that haven’t been well represented in the project yet. You don’t need to be a famous developer or have shipped the biggest app on the platform. If you are actively doing interesting work with Apple Vision Pro, we’d like to hear your story. And if that describes someone you know, **please introduce us** or invite them to join the project. ## We’ve Been Busy It has been a little while since our last project update. WWDC and AWE made for a very busy start to the summer for many people on the team, but Shared Visions certainly didn’t stop. The project has been moving forward on a surprising number of tracks at once: interviewing and story development, immersive filming, production tooling, app development, UX and visual design, editing workflows, and figuring out how all of those pieces eventually become one cohesive experience. Shared Visions isn’t intended to just be a collection of interviews. We’re trying to capture a particular moment in the history of spatial computing, through the people who were there building it, and create something designed to be experienced on Apple Vision Pro. ## Finding the Story Inside the Interviews We’ve now moved beyond simply recording interviews and have started looking across them for the larger themes connecting everyone’s stories. A photo of Jimmy working on transcripts The team has been reviewing transcripts, comparing responses, and identifying ideas that repeatedly emerge. That analysis is also helping us reconsider some of our interview questions. As we learn what produces the most interesting conversations, we can rephrase questions, follow unexpected threads, and explore subjects that we didn’t anticipate when the project began. The goal isn’t to make everyone tell the same story. We want to understand where people’s experiences intersect and where they dramatically differ. A screenshot of DaVinci Resolve showing the transcript workflow. That also makes expanding the group of interviewees particularly important right now. If all of our interviews come from the same developer circles, cities, countries, professions, or demographics, we’re only capturing one slice of this moment. We want developers, certainly, but we also want the artist experimenting with spatial media, the designer trying to invent a new interaction language, the filmmaker figuring out immersive storytelling, the researcher exploring how people behave in spatial interfaces, and the enterprise team discovering what this technology looks like outside of a demo. ## More Cameras, More Places, More Interviews We’re also entering another round of in-person filming. The team has been coordinating a Bay Area production window and working through locations, schedules, equipment, lighting, audio, and immersive B-roll. We’re also reaching out to organizations that may be able to help us with locations, production resources, and introductions to people doing interesting Vision Pro work. Meanwhile, other members of the team are continuing to organize interviews in other regions. One thing has become very clear through this process: this documentary gets considerably more interesting every time somebody introduces us to a person we didn’t already know. So keep those introductions coming. ## The App Is Starting to Take Shape Shared Visions is also an app, and the UX team has been working through what that experience needs to evolve to become. Recent design work has explored several layers of the project: the core story experience, the broader Shared Visions app, and the tools we will eventually need to assemble and maintain it. The current concepts give viewers several ways into the material. Someone might simply watch the main feature from beginning to end. Someone else might return later to discover newly added interviews, explore stories from particular people, or build a playlist around topics that interest them. That distinction matters because we want Shared Visions to work both as **a documentary** and as **an evolving archive of the people behind this technology**. The UX team has been exploring home screens, video discovery, filtering, playlists, contributor profiles, branding, and ways of moving between the primary documentary and the larger collection of material behind it. For the main feature itself, we’re also thinking carefully about how immersive and interactive elements fit into documentary storytelling. The film and the person speaking should remain the focus. Spatial elements should reinforce a story rather than constantly compete with it. Sometimes the most immersive thing we can do is simply let somebody tell you what happened. And sometimes their story deserves to escape the rectangle. Finding that balance is a big part of what makes this project interesting. ## Building the Tools to Build the Story There is another side to Shared Visions that viewers may never see: the tools required to actually make it. Our Story Drop system continues to help us organize interviews, participants, transcripts, recordings, and production assets. We now have a dedicated Shared Visions GitHub organization, along with projects for the main application and faster concept experiments. Development is continuing on the timeline and story tooling as well. The team has been experimenting with ways to represent stories as chapters, segments, steps, media, and spatial elements… effectively building an editing model for experiences that may combine traditional video with content that exists around the viewer. We’ve also been testing new builds, iterating on our internal tools, and connecting the design and development work more closely so ideas can move from sketches to working prototypes much faster. There is still a lot to build. But increasingly, the individual pieces look like parts of the same thing. A screenshot of Maestro Pro showing field of view guides A screenshot of Maestro Pro showing import options ## Help Us Find the People We’re Missing While the technology is interesting …**the people are the story.** So this is where we could use your help. > Do you know someone doing meaningful work with Apple Vision Pro or visionOS who we should interview? We are particularly hoping to meet more: * Women working with Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing * Creators and developers outside the United States * Artists, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and other creative professionals * Researchers and educators exploring spatial computing * LGBTQ+ creators and other voices underrepresented in technology * People building Apple Vision Pro products inside companies and organizations * Independent developers experimenting with ideas that might never come from a large studio * People pushing the boundaries of what Apple Vision Pro can be used for They don’t have to already be part of Step Into Vision. In fact, **we would really like to meet people who aren’t.** Shared Visions should capture more than our community. We want it to capture the larger community forming around this new medium — while we’re all still figuring out what it can become. If someone comes to mind while reading this, send them this post or introduce them to the Shared Visions team. **We’d love to hear their story.** Join the Shared Visions Project

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