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Really cool they are using this. Seems The Minority Report is prescient….for those that haven’t seen it (it is a bit old), set in the 2050’s and everywhere you’d go the stores etc. were recognizing everyone as they’d step in and give personalized computer generated service via iris identification without users noticing, if my old my memory is correct.

Minority Report: a dystopian vision of a future in which you can’t escape your work, advertisements and other unwanted intrusions.
 
With a 2h battery life sounds like 90% of the time you’ll need to use the passcode. But I guess iris scanning is cool.
 
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When you take so many "cool tech - not necessary tech" items in the Vision Pro, you can see a fast path to a lower priced consumer version. Adding retinal scanning to the list.

Great that is has "guest mode" but at this price - it should support multiple user profiles like the iPad that is shared by manyh people in a household - oh wait.... nevermind.
Lol, so you're gonna punch in a passcode every time? Man this take is gonna age like milk.
 
When you take so many "cool tech - not necessary tech" items in the Vision Pro, you can see a fast path to a lower priced consumer version. Adding retinal scanning to the list.

Great that is has "guest mode" but at this price - it should support multiple user profiles like the iPad that is shared by manyh people in a household - oh wait.... nevermind.
I’d be willing to bet that optical id will be in the eventual lower priced devices, there’s no way Apple wont have some form of biometrics on those, they havent made a non-accessory device that lacked that in a long long time - and faceid would be tough to implement on such a device and touchid would introduce awkward compromises
 
Am I reading this correctly - you need to enter a passcode when - “The device has just been turned on or restarted” then when would you use the iris scan? That’s like 99.9% of the time You need to enter a passcode.
 
Really cool they are using this. Seems The Minority Report is prescient….for those that haven’t seen it (it is a bit old), set in the 2050’s and everywhere you’d go the stores etc. were recognizing everyone as they’d step in and give personalized computer generated service via iris identification without users noticing, if my old my memory is correct.
Eye-based authentication has been a staple of sci-fi for over fifty years.
 
Am I reading this correctly - you need to enter a passcode when - “The device has just been turned on or restarted” then when would you use the iris scan? That’s like 99.9% of the time You need to enter a passcode.

When you’re buying all the subscriptions you’ll need for VP optimized content?
 
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Am I reading this correctly - you need to enter a passcode when - “The device has just been turned on or restarted” then when would you use the iris scan? That’s like 99.9% of the time You need to enter a passcode.

MKBHD's early review started that the device doesn't fully turn off when you put it down.

For all intents and purposes this sounds like it's going to behave pretty much like an iPhone.
 
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Dear Apple, bring optic ID to the iPhone and kill the notch.
 
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FaceID is more than enough but maybe one day Apple might bring this form of authentication to its other devices.
 
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Casinos in Las Vegas do this as well.
No they don’t. This isn’t remotely true at all.

Casino security uses facial recognition at best and its not used across all
casino group and/or properties.

They may like or desire to in the future but definitely aren’t at current.
 
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So they can shoot lasers into your eyes on a face computer but can't put FaceID in their computers? Cool.
This is why FaceID isn’t in the MacBooks; can you imagine the complaints if Apple doubled the lid thickness.

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Lasers beaming right into your retinas. What could go wrong? You'd be crazy not to try it!

Safe. So was the Boeing Max 737, until it wasn't. I'll let you be the guinea pig, thanks!
That one boeing max model indeed has proven history of optimization and what has happened is resul of that and many other factors.
engines moved forward
software calculations based on using only sensors on one side of the aircrafts nose
no complete automation override
lack of educated and skilled people on both sides of the certification process
I agree with victorvictoria.
But this type of authentication can be turned off, I do not get the point of this good/bad debate on that.
 
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Lasers beaming right into your retinas. What could go wrong? You'd be crazy not to try it!

Safe. So was the Boeing Max 737, until it wasn't. I'll let you be the guinea pig, thanks!
Iris scanning has been commercially available for 30 years or so.
 
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