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I genuinely don't think this will ever be useful. UIs based on voice and gesture are not precise enough Even if they capture words accurately, it's just not as

by tootie 2y ago

I genuinely don't think this will ever be useful. UIs based on voice and gesture are not precise enough Even if they capture words accurately, it's just not as expressive or precise as tap or click. Most people don't want to talk to their devices out loud in public. There's precious few use cases where I want data to be in front of what I'm trying to look at. We've been trying for so very long and nothing has stuck. The last coup in AR was Pokemon Go. We've had a Meta Quest for years and it's primary use is still Beat Saber. It just isn't going to happen.

Scene_Cast2 2y ago
Eye tracking adds that precision.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  I kinda doubt that. I think Apple is on the wrong track there. Maybe for now it makes sense but I don't think it will stay as the tech improves. It's pretty annoying having to look at everything you interact with. It's unnatural. Also, typing by looking at each individual key will be exhausting and slow. Gesture tracking on the quest is very hit and miss but this is just due to the tech not being up to snuff yet. I think eventually you will just be able to type on a virtual keyboard. You can even do it now, it's just that the forward/backward tracking is pretty inaccurate still (it's pretty much the worst usecase because your fingers are not well visible to the headset cameras and moving forward/backwards which is also the most difficult to interpret. But I think this will get solved.
wkat4242 2y ago
> We've had a Meta Quest for years and it's primary use is still Beat Saber. It just isn't going to happen. Try Metro Awakening. It's a really "full game" story-driven experience, I'm surprised they managed to get so much out of a mobile processor. Even on my old Quest 2 it runs impressively well. I personally don't like the arcade style gameplay (eg beat saber) at all so I mostly play PCVR but it's really nice to see some real full games are making it to the platform now.

by tootie 2y ago

Scene_Cast2 2y ago

Eye tracking adds that precision.

wkat4242 2y ago
I kinda doubt that. I think Apple is on the wrong track there. Maybe for now it makes sense but I don't think it will stay as the tech improves. It's pretty annoying having to look at everything you interact with. It's unnatural. Also, typing by looking at each individual key will be exhausting and slow. Gesture tracking on the quest is very hit and miss but this is just due to the tech not being up to snuff yet. I think eventually you will just be able to type on a virtual keyboard. You can even do it now, it's just that the forward/backward tracking is pretty inaccurate still (it's pretty much the worst usecase because your fingers are not well visible to the headset cameras and moving forward/backwards which is also the most difficult to interpret. But I think this will get solved.

wkat4242 2y ago

> We've had a Meta Quest for years and it's primary use is still Beat Saber. It just isn't going to happen. Try Metro Awakening. It's a really "full game" story-driven experience, I'm surprised they managed to get so much out of a mobile processor. Even on my old Quest 2 it runs impressively well. I personally don't like the arcade style gameplay (eg beat saber) at all so I mostly play PCVR but it's really nice to see some real full games are making it to the platform now.