Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
by doctorhandshake on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:20PM
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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 solved with hardware previously.
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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
by throwitaway1123 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:00PM
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That was the part that stood out to me as well after watching The Verge's video: 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.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
by grahamj on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:10PM
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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.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
by throwitaway1123 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:48PM
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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-ta...