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I think if EyeSight sticks around it needs to be opened up to developers for silly things like googly eyes, do not disturb signs, animations, etc. Anything that makes it expressive of the personality of the user. Otherwise, it could be like TouchBar except even less useful.
 
So, what are the chances the Vision Air will have a simple font cover that changes colour, depending on whether or not you can see the person in front of you?
 
Except the reviewers who have seen it in person essentially agree with the commentary that it looks stupid and doesn't actually work to break the "you're wearing a headset" social awkardness barrier.

This is veering into Apple apologia.
I saw only one person say he preferred that EyeSight was there than not—in MKBHD’s podcast where he was wearing the VP, one of the other podcasters agreed it looked very weird but it served a function in allowing him to know where MKBHD’s attention was, and he appreciated that. A third podcaster didn’t concur but he also wasn’t able to see MKBHD’s eyes as well from the angle he was sitting, so it may only be useful to people you’re looking pretty directly at. The very reflective glass also seems to be an issue where there’s a lot of bright lights, which is would be expected in studio settings.
 
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Although I was not convinced in the beginning because I was disappointed on the final result vs marketing material, I agree with Tim Cook about Eyesight being super important
This is probably the best-looking EyeSight I’ve seen on someone. His eyes look like they’re where they’re supposed to be instead of too far off the face or something. Although I don’t know what he looks like so maybe it’s way off. But maybe it looks better because he jerry-rigged the headband and he‘s not using the light seal so it’s closer to his face.
 
It just seems so superfluous. There’s no issue with wearing sunglasses so why do I need to see some fake eyes when someone’s wearing this?
Well, blacked out sunglasses are considered rude in many situations since you can’t see the wearer’s eye expressions or see if they’re looking off to the side or closing their eyes (ie. not giving full attention). A “blacked out” headset is even worse because the wearer could be watching Youtube or reading MR while you’re talking to them and you’d never know.
Edit- forgot to mention, or they could be in a fully immersive environment and basically not present at all.
 
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This is probably the best-looking EyeSight I’ve seen on someone. His eyes look like they’re where they’re supposed to be instead of too far off the face or something. Although I don’t know what he looks like so maybe it’s way off. But maybe it looks better because he jerry-rigged the headband and he‘s not using the light seal so it’s closer to his face.
And all of this considering it's a lenticular display, so it's like "3D" and cameras can't make good justice
 
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