The EyeSight thread (MERGED)

[tomtad]

Yes it's creepy, but I don't think many people know how genuinely amazing this feature is, if it actually looks like this of course.

It uses a lenticular display to render a 3D image so your eyes appear physically to sit back from the display. It's not just your eyes on a screen.

 

[AdonisSMU]

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Yes it's creepy, but I don't think many people know how genuinely amazing this feature is, if it actually looks like this of course.

It uses a lenticular display to render a 3D image so your eyes appear physically to sit back from the display. It's not just your eyes on a screen.

TBQH I don't really agree or understand why this of all things would be "creepy" as some people put it.

 

[tomtad]

TBQH I don't really agree or understand why this of all things would be "creepy" as some people put it.

This is what most of the journalists said last week when they were shown it and I can understand how something you know is a digital recreation being in the place of someone's eyes could be a bit.... well odd.

That doesn't take away from what amazing tech this is though. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.

 

[Crow_Servo]

There’s an uncanny valley effect to it, but I still like it. It’s one of those ”Apple touches” that makes it more unique and it serves an actual purpose.

 

[4sallypat]

So if I fall asleep with the VP on my face, will the other person see my rendered sleeping face or will it shut down ?

 

[tomtad]

So if I fall asleep with the VP on my face, will the other person see my rendered sleeping face or will it shut down ?

It supposedly relays what your eyes are doing, so would show them closed.

 

[tobyringle69]

Personally, I think it's genius. One of the things that is so distracting when you try to interact with someone who is wearing a VR headset, is that you assume they can't see you. Yes, it will see odd at first, but I think its quite useful.

 

[cateye]

Eh. Hard to get excited about uncanny valley parlor tricks.

It reminds me a bit of how you could "share" your heartbeat with someone during the early iterations of the Watch. It was humanizing and fun, and introduced the idea of the Watch as this device that is constantly paying attention to certain elements of your vitals, but it was never meant to be a tentpole feature and, predictably, it went away.

When it comes time to iterate the Apple Vision Pro into just the Apple Vision, a more mass-market device, the quickest way to lop off cost, weight, and complexity will be to get rid of that entire front screen assembly. It will have served its purpose.

 

[4sallypat]

It supposedly relays what your eyes are doing, so would show them closed.

Wow that's amazing how the facial and eye scanner will replicate your eyes onto the glass surface and render them lifelike...

 

[Sami13496]

So if I fall asleep with the VP on my face, will the other person see my rendered sleeping face or will it shut down ?

Don’t worry, that won’t happen. It’s just too heavy.

 

[Sami13496]

I think that model made funny face, that is partly why it looks weird.

Btw. That woman they use as model. She has big hair to balance the VP. So it sticking out wouldn’t be that noticeable. LoL.

 

[AlastorKatriona]

Actually it's the only part of Vision Pro that I find to be impressive.

 

[MisterSavage]

Complete overkill IMO. Give me a cheaper version with an LED that lights up to let someone else know you can't see them.

 

[CodeSpyder]

It's probably expensive. I think it will go away on the second iteration.

 

[Crow_Servo]

It's probably expensive. I think it will go away on the second iteration.

I hope not. It allows you to be more interactive with the people physically around you when you’re separated by this enclosed device on your face.

People are suggesting that a future version should omit this aspect. I don’t see it as a “pro” feature that remains exclusive only to the premium edition. I see it as a part of the outward identity of the Apple Vision device, like the iPhone had the notch and now Dynamic Island.

It’ll very likely evolve and Apple could possibly find a simpler way to add it to a lower cost version, but I don’t see it being removed entirely.

 

[Donstil-nl]

I also like the dead eye mode, it gives it just that little more than the plastic front of the other glasses.

Only it looks like the resolution of that screen is really low, have to see it for myself.

 

[Yoms]

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Yes it's creepy, but I don't think many people know how genuinely amazing this feature is, if it actually looks like this of course.

It uses a lenticular display to render a 3D image so your eyes appear physically to sit back from the display. It's not just your eyes on a screen.

The idea is interesting. But I think the result is horrendous. The dark bezels are huge and the image looks foggy. No doubt that it's the best Apple could do at this point in time from a tech perspective, but this needs improving.

Until I'm tricked to the point I have the feeling that I'm talking to someone wearing a thin and 100% transparent ski mask, I'll kindly ask the person to remove his/her headset when we talk.

 

[EyeRiseCardioPhoneMount]

The implementation was a joke. It wasn't even sharing a live heartbeat. It was sharing the last saved BPM. So not even matching the cadence of your actual heartbeat

 

[klasma]

Yes it's creepy, but I don't think many people know how genuinely amazing this feature is, if it actually looks like this of course.

To me the person in that animation looks just as rendered as her EyeSight, so I would expect the valley to be even more uncanny in reality.

 

[cateye]

I see it as a part of the outward identity of the Apple Vision device, like the iPhone had the notch and now Dynamic Island.

By drawing that comparison, you're certainly not selling its importance. Perhaps the Touch Bar is a better comparison—introduced as a differentiating factor, beloved to the point of mania by some, ignored by everyone else, eventually abandoned.

It's a marketing parlor trick. A cool one, and one with the short-term utility to train people to not be afraid of someone wearing a face-mounted computer, but... come on now. To be so amazed by a silly eye display is missing the forest for the trees of what makes the AVP such an interesting and potentially future-illuminating device. It's the least important part of the whole package.

 

[WingingIt]

I'll kindly ask the person to remove his/her headset when we talk.

I suspect if someone kindly asked me to remove my headset, I would kindly exercise my right not to continue talking with them.

 

[sarcasticgamer]

I dont find it creepy at all, especially when it serves an important function

 

[WingingIt]

I’ll be interested to see how this feature works on a plane. You’ll be sat right next to someone, so will the Vision Pro think they’re trying to interact with you the whole time and keep reducing the immersion level so you can see them?

if it somehow actually does handle that plane use case correctly… as in, it ignores the person next to you until they ask you to get up so they can use the restroom, at which point it dials down your immersion and shows your eyes so you could interact, that’s would be great.

That said, my AirPods Pro don’t handle conversation awareness properly on planes anyway because of all the background noise, so I guess I wouldn’t hear what the person is saying to me anyway!

 

[fs454]

I’ll be interested to see how this feature works on a plane. You’ll be sat right next to someone, so will the Vision Pro think they’re trying to interact with you the whole time and keep reducing the immersion level so you can see them?

if it somehow actually does handle that plane use case correctly… as in, it ignores the person next to you until they ask you to get up so they can use the restroom, at which point it dials down your immersion and shows your eyes so you could interact, that’s would be great.

That said, my AirPods Pro don’t handle conversation awareness properly on planes anyway because of all the background noise, so I guess I wouldn’t hear what the person is saying to me anyway!

I think it needs eye contact. The guy next to you isn't looking at you constantly.

 

[klasma]

The guy next to you isn't looking at you constantly.

…or so you think.