visionOS 3 Will Let Apple Vision Pro Users Scroll With Their Eyes

[MacRumors]

Apple Vision Pro users could soon be able to scroll through content with their eyes, according to Bloomberg. Apple is working on a visionOS 3 feature that would eliminate the need for hand gestures when browsing websites, reading, and more.

The Vision Pro already supports navigating through the operating system by looking at an item and then using a hand gesture to "tap" it, so eye-based scrolling would be a natural extension of that existing functionality. Apple plans to add eye scrolling capabilities to all of the built-in apps on the Vision Pro, and it is developing APIs that will let developers do the same.

There are multiple cameras in the Vision Pro that are used for eye tracking purposes and for iris scanning, a biometric authentication feature. Apple has experimented with eye tracking on other devices too, with an Accessibility feature on the iPhone and iPad allowing iOS users to look at an onscreen pointer that follows eye movement. With this option, users can look to navigate, and then focus their eyes on one spot to perform a tap action.

visionOS 3 is set to debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference that starts on Monday, June 9.

Article Link: visionOS 3 Will Let Apple Vision Pro Users Scroll With Their Eyes

 

[germanbeer007]

me: eyes rolling so far back in my head whenever i launch X

 

[LordArchie]

Getting better.. still a hard cost justify. *for me

 

[mozumder]

How does one read content while it's scrolling?? that's gotta be annoying..

 

[BarrettF77]

Sold one of my AVPs yesterday and down to one. Depending AV OS 3, the other might be going here in early June as well. It just doesn't do much for our use case and has sat in its white padded case for 99% of the last 15 months. It just is such a half baked product and unlike the Apple TV which even as a "hobby", it filled a void for fast clean navigation of streaming things.

I abhor the battery having to be dangling from the device and the overall weight of it. If I could just put it on and it was one piece with a USB C connector on it for data transfer then this would be very different. Fingers crossed OS3 is where we start to walk and run instead of nap and crawl....

 

[Rychiar]

how can you select and scroll at the same time with your eyes..... gotta move your eyes independently? lol🤪

 

[iMac The Knife]

News Alert:

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[krakenrelease]

How does one read content while it's scrolling?? that's gotta be annoying..

You wait for it to stop scrolling? Do you read scrolling data on web sites lol.

 

[ps3zocker]

You wait for it to stop scrolling? Do you read scrolling data on web sites lol.

And then you can't move your eyes because you would scroll further?

 

[nfl46]

Let’s gooo! That would be dope!

 

[Corpuscle]

How does one read content while it's scrolling?? that's gotta be annoying..

Perhaps using the same techniques you use to read text in every other situation in life.

 

[NMBob]

Pretty soon it will be just like their phones/pads. You won't be able to look or blink anywhere on the screen without setting something off.

 

[G5isAlive]

Getting better.. still a hard cost justify. *for me

costs me nothing.. additional

I am not sure I have the eye control to scroll.. I tend to look all over the place.

 

[G5isAlive]

Pretty soon it will be just like their phones/pads. You won't be able to look or blink anywhere on the screen without setting something off.

things change on your iPhone/pads by looking at them?

 

[philfloyduk]

How does one read content while it's scrolling?? that's gotta be annoying..

Maybe it works on scrolling naturally as you get to the bottom of the visible text? Who knows, sounds cool though 🙌🏻

 

[Plutonius]

Depending on how it is implemented, it my end up being annoying.

 

[Koivari]

Gekko_rotating_eyes_independently.gif

 

[Lioness~]

Still prefer desktop and laptop before eyetop 😉

 

[poematik13]

such a goofy product, and lol at the price

 

[Tevosn]

me: eyes rolling so far back in my head whenever i launch X

Twitter?

 

[dominiongamma]

Surprised this wasn’t a day 1 things honestly

 

[harper101]

Eye fatigue.

 

[CrysisDeu]

Even harder to use.. Apple must understand sometimes you don’t really aim your eye at the exact spot you want to click.. right?

 

[one more]

The tech is neat, no doubt, yet I still find the whole VisionPro headset freaky. For me, it is a very anti-social tool, one is basically sitting in their own bubble. Watching an amazing immersive movie, checking out photos all by yourself? Whatever happened to “Happiness is only real when shared.” idea? I personally find Meta’s RayBan implementation more adapted, but hey, to each their own, I guess.

 

[NMBob]

things change on your iPhone/pads by looking at them?

By just about touching anywhere on the screen, on the edges, swiping in-out, swiping up-down, swiping from this corner or the other corner, touching too long, not touching long enough... I suspect it will come to the point where you'll sneeze and erase everything on the iGoggle.