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n.s.@reth7/24/2023, 1:03 PM

you know how the Apple Vision will be a product lineup?

so i've been thinking of a budget product that can use the Vision Pro's technologies, but it could integrate directly with a Mac/iPad (and also could be helpful for the motor-impaired).

so take a pair of glasses, strap the eye-tracking tech on them, some connectivity and a miniature firmware system. these could be paired to your AID and wirelessly would be connected to your mac or ipad automagically. there could be a little camera at the front to just detect where the screen is for calibration.

basically - eye tracking as a cursor for a mac. not sure how would the gesture part work for clicking (maybe also add hand-tracking? or we can use eye blinking), but we'll call it Apple Vision Air and it will be a game-changer. starts at $999.

does this make sense or

#apple vision pro #apple #The Cohost Global Feed #computers #is the vision pro a computer? i mean yeah it is but whatever #magic mouse 3 leak

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~@modulusshift7/24/2023, 1:08 PM

Magic Leap's first product was one of these, but I think they stopped at some point. Tobii seems to still be doing it though, and apparently Microsoft's explicitly supporting it in Windows?

By my understanding these are usually display mounted as if they were webcams instead of face-mounted though. I hear they actually work really well.

Hee the Tobii device looks like a Wii sensor bar to me lol

Oh, there's some drama here? It sounds like the Tobii 4C was intended to be a game controller kind of device that was unexpectedly good at mouse control and they deliberately spun it off into another product line called Tobii Dynavox, as far as I can tell they charge "we're selling this to insurance companies now let's hike up the price 10x" prices, and Tobii itself made a new tracker that deliberately can't be used with Windows Eye Control.

n.s.@reth7/24/2023, 1:18 PM

oh yeah, these do exist. but like, i think apple could do it better as a wearable nowadays.

i mean, i literally was toying around with accessibility settings and found out i can control my macOS cursor using just my face. tilting my head to move the cursor, using facial expressions for clicks. also can enable voice control for keyboardless experience.

a wearable to control devices hands-free would be awesome though.

~@modulusshift7/24/2023, 1:20 PM

Whoa that's cool. I knew about voice control but not the other stuff.

Apple would definitely be less of a jerk lol see edits above

I'm also actually a little worried about it? Apple's target size on visionOS seems a little big and I can't tell if that means their eye tracking tech isn't as good as it seems or human gaze just isn't actually that precise sometimes lol

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