Apple’s much-awaited mixed reality headset finally made its debut at WWDC 2023 earlier this week. The Apple Vision Pro holds a lot of promise despite its hefty price tag of $3,499. The VR industry has come to a standstill over the last few years and the Vision Pro is set to breathe new life into this genre of consumer products. What sets Vision Pro apart from its peers is ‘EyeSight’, which enables the people around you to look at your eyes while you’re wearing the headset. A lot of advanced tech combined with clever use of cameras brings about this sorcery. Let’s take a look at how EyeSight works on Apple’s Vision Pro Headset.
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How does the EyeSight on Apple Vision Pro Headset work?
Wearing a VR/AR headset can be an isolating experience for the user as well as for the people around them. When you’re tuned into virtual reality, you’re cut off from your immediate surroundings, with no way of knowing whether you’re being approached by another person. The ‘dystopian’ reputation garnered by VR headsets is partly due to the visual of watching someone engaging in a different ‘reality’ with no way of getting through to them. Apple’s late entry into the VR game may turn things around.
The ‘EyeSight’ on Apple’s Vision Pro Headset seeks to make VR a less isolating experience. When you’re tuned into the Vision Pro, the outer OLED panel is your medium of interaction with your immediate surroundings. When there are people around you, the OLED panel projects an image of your eyes, making you look approachable rather than closed off. The Vision Pro is able to pull this off using the internal cameras pointed towards your eyes. With two IR cameras for each eye, the Vision Pro is able to relay an appropriate simulation of your eyes on the outer OLED display.
Your eye movements are flawlessly relayed to the outer screen. The Vision Pro Headset does this by running the video feed through its algorithm and using the computational power of the M2 chip. Essentially, EyeSight is like a very accurate livestream of your eyes. It kicks into action when you’re approached by someone. What’s fascinating is that the images relayed on the screen adapt to the perspective of the person moving towards you. If you’re in the middle of watching a movie or even browsing the web, you will be alerted about the presence of another person.
The EyeSight doesn’t always project your eyes on the screen. If you’re in the middle of something, the outer panel will display certain graphics that give the people around you an idea of what you’re doing. For example, if you’re browsing Safari, there will be a blueish hue on the EyeSight. If you’re taking images via the headset, the EyeSight will display a cloudy pattern, letting the people around you know that they are being recorded. You can choose to stop what you’re doing and display your eyes on the outer panel to interact with other people.
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Conclusion
Whether EyeSight will finally shake off the dystopian image that VR headsets have created for themselves still remains to be seen. The idea of interacting with a simulation of someone’s eyes may seem even more dystopian to some. What we can say for sure is that the Vision Pro Headset is one of the most fascinating pieces of tech to come out in recent years.
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