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Whole point of the digital face is to look real though, and freezing the gaze would look unnervingly fake.
by generalizations 2y ago
Whole point of the digital face is to look real though, and freezing the gaze would look unnervingly fake.
- LorenDB 2y agoBut you could at least dampen out or randomize eye travel while looking at the keyboard. Fully reproducing eye output is a recipe for disaster, and that should have been obvious.
- fidotron 2y agoOTOH once you as an outsider know that sometimes the AVP is lying to you about where the wearer is looking why would you ever trust it? For example, you could then use the AVP to stare at people and then claim afterwards you were doing no such thing.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoAdd a faint glow to indicate they're typing and the continued face animation is a stand-in.
- parasubvert 2y agoIt's about tradeoffs, the device is barely 7 months old at this point. Thankfully the fix is fairly obvious too.
- dylan604 2y agoThrow people for a loop and switch your headset keyboard to DVORAK. When they scan your eye movements and apply to QWERTY, they'll be confused AF!
- jrockway 2y agoWell, you still only have to try one other password. If you get locked out after one password attempt and nobody knows that you use dvorak, your defense works, but if you have three attempts, you can also add colemak to your list of things to try ;)
- kobalsky 2y agoadd sunglasses to the avatar while typing
- p1necone 2y agoSomeone hire this person please.
- throw10920 2y agoIt would, wouldn't it? I'd suggest blurring the face in a "password input context" (like password fields on the web with their redacted display text), but I suspect that that'd go against what Apple wants the Vision Pro experience to look like.
- dwallin 2y agoI'm confident they could come up with a filler eye animation algorithm that was convincing enough to pass muster for short periods of time. Even if hand coding something didn't quite work out, they certainly have tons of eye tracking data internally they could use to train a small model, or optimize parameters.
- dTal 2y agoThe complexity of this solution just shot up from "2 minute hack" to "2 month research project, minimum". It's understandable why they didn't do this.
- withinboredom 2y agoI don't think anyone was suggesting to go for the 'parameterized model' from the start. They could just hide the eyes while typing, as a good starting point.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoYeah. Make them appear closed, done
- underdeserver 2y agoNo way this takes two months to get to a convincing proof of concept.
- sli 2y agoIf I were implementing it and wanted to obscure, I'd blur the whole screen momentarily, probably with a small message. I really doubt that's ideal for a commercial offering, though. I'm not really worried about unnerving people if I'm using an avatar, that comes with the territory as it is.
- magicalhippo 2y agoJust have them close their eyes? That's what I do when I have to recall my password anyway.
- darby_nine 2y agoThen it shouldn't be used for secure input.
- bsza 2y agoWhy? Most people are capable of fixating at a single point with basically no perceptible eye movement.
- JamesSwift 2y agoJust do the same thing the external display does and do a 'cloudy eyes' version when they user is interacting w/ the keyboard.