We hope to see the launch of a apple glasses product sometime next year, and a vague rumor suggests they may borrow a key feature from Vision Pro.
Specifically, they are said to be able to recognize hand gestures as a means of interacting with the wearable device, but there are good reasons to doubt this claim…
The claim of the hand gesture.
Early virtual reality headsets relied on hardware such as handheld controllers as input devices. Vision Pro greatly simplified the way users interact with the device by giving it the ability to recognize hand gestures without the need for additional hardware.
MacRumors cites an “internal source” in suggesting that Apple Glasses will have the same capability.
The AI glasses will include two cameras. A high-resolution camera will be included to capture photos and videos that can be shared on social media and used as iPhone photos. A second, lower-resolution wide-angle lens will read hand gestures and provide visual feedback to Siri.
The site links this to similar rumors about AirPods having cameras for the same reason.
Reasons for skepticism
The Apple Glasses are expected to have one or two cameras, as opposed to the Vision Pro’s eight external cameras and four internal eye-tracking cameras. Relying on a single, low-resolution external camera to recognize hand gestures, as the report suggests, would be a challenge to achieve reliably.
Bloomberg Mark Gurman He has also expressed his own skepticism about the idea.
As far as I know, the technology does not exist today to do this reliably with a single camera, without neural banding, and without eye scanning. I also haven’t heard anything to suggest that the first version has any sophisticated form of gestures like those described here. I am extremely skeptical.
What does seem likely is support for AirPods-style head gestureslike nodding and shaking your head, and it may be that the source of this rumor confused talking about this with supportive hand gestures.
That said, it is not completely There’s no way wearable devices can use some combination of extremely obvious head gestures and hand gestures, but we’re certainly viewing this report with a big pinch of salt.
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