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The EMG wrist band is the most exciting part of this release, IMO. That strikes me as a great solve that pushes into software a lot of hard problems that were s

• throwitaway1123 2y ago
  That was the part that stood out to me as well after watching The Verge's video: https://youtu.be/mpKKcqWnTus?t=98 https://youtu.be/mpKKcqWnTus?t=98 The Vision Pro uses optical sensors for hand tracking, so if your hands aren't visible to the device it obviously can't track them. Electromyography solves that problem, and I could imagine Apple integrating some variant of this in a future Apple Watch, and just falling back to optical sensors if you don't own one.
  • grahamj 2y ago
    The Watch already supports a pinch gesture so I'm surprised they're not already using it for VP, at least as a backup for occlusion.
    • throwitaway1123 2y ago
      Yeah it is surprising because it seems like a relatively obvious solution. The Watch doesn't use electromyography though [1], it looks like it currently uses "the accelerometer, gyroscope, and optical heart sensor with a new machine learning algorithm." I wonder how accurate that is compared to the EMG solution Meta is using. [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-watch-double-tap-gesture-now-available-with-watchos-10-1/#:~:text=twice%20as%20fast.-,The%20Neural%20Engine%20processes,Apple%20Watch%20Ultra%202.,-Pause%20playback%20of https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-watch-double-ta...
• Tepix 2y ago
  What? From my PoV (ha!), the 70° FoV is a breakthrough that was sorely needed.