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Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
(www.wired.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Asking because I've never had the experience: how does one write anything while wearing a VR set? Please don't tell me it's one-finger "Fliegender Adler" on a giant floaty image of a keyboard?
This would utterly kill the comfort, convenience, and speed of touch typing, would it not? Ahh, progress... Even in Minority Report they had (friggin' sweet-looking!) keyboards alongside their fancy futuristic FAUI*.
^((* FAUI - flailing arms UI)^)
Flying Adler approach works and is the solution for noobs. Pros either use a real world keyboard or just look at the letter they want to type and snap 🫰 like this to type that letter. You can type pretty fast with the look’n’snap technic.
From the article:
So they were working backwards to determine the inputs based off of the observed eye motion.
I have a much less modern VR headset and you can definitely still type on a regular keyboard while you're wearing it. You can't see the keyboard though, so you need to be skilled enough to touch type. I can't find any reliable-looking statistics on it with a quick search, but it seems like that is not a very common skill
... Like what is not a very common skill? Touch typing in general? Or doing it under VR specifically?
Touch typing. Like I said I cannot find any reputable statistics. touchtypeit.co.uk claims "according to research" it's less than 20%, but does not actually link any specific research. There are some other sites like it that are trying to sell you a product and list a low percentage, but I can't find any actual studies or statistics
Vision pro renders the keyboard into your virtual environment, like it does with your arms/hands