We are waiting for the launch Apple Glasses At some point next year, the product and a half-baked rumor suggest they may borrow a key feature Vision Pro.
In particular, they are said to be able to recognize hand gestures as a means of interacting with the wearable device – but there is good reason to doubt the claim…
Hand gesture claim
Early VR headsets relied on hardware such as hand controllers as input devices. Vision Pro made it much easier for users to interact with the device, allowing it to recognize hand gestures without the need for additional hardware.
MacRumors Apple cites an “internal source” that suggests Glasses will have the same capability.
The artificial intelligence glasses will include two cameras. A high-quality camera will be included for taking photos and videos that can be shared on social media and used as iPhone photos. A second low-resolution wide-angle lens will read hand gestures and provide visual input for Siri.
The site links this to similar rumors that AirPods will have cameras for the same reason.
Reasons for skepticism
Apple’s glasses are expected to have one or two cameras, as opposed to eight external cameras and four internal eye-tracking cameras on the Vision Pro. As the report points out, relying on a single low-resolution external camera to recognize hand gestures would be difficult to achieve the desired reliability.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman expressed his doubts about this idea.
The technology to reliably do this with a single camera, neural scope, and eye tracking does not exist today, as far as I know. Nor have I heard anything to suggest that the gestures described in the first version have any sophisticated form. I am extremely skeptical.
It is likely to be supported AirPods-style head gesturessuch as nodding and shaking the head, and perhaps the source of this rumor mistook this conversation for hand gesture support.
He said it’s not like that absolutely It’s impossible for wearables to use some combination of head gestures and extremely obvious hand gestures — but we’re certainly taking this report with a very large pinch of salt.
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