Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, which will come later this year, uses both eye-tracking and hand-tracking to control it, but at one point considered a finger-worn input device, according to an article in today’s Power On newsletter.
Gurman says that early in the development of the headset, Apple tested third-party virtual reality controllers from companies like HTC and later, it looked into the finger-worn device .
Indeed, in 2015, a smart ring patent had emerged from the company, though at the time seemed more intended as a general wearable device, not a mixed reality headset.
In the end, Gurman tells us, the company decided that using eye tracking and hand motions to control the Vision Pro was the more elegant solution.
When our own Nilay Patel tested the headset , he called it the best headset demo ever.
He thought the eye tracking was solid, and confirmed that you can keep your hands down at sides or in your
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