These Gestures Are How You Control Apple Vision Pro

[kkee]

$3,500 for a product which is not getting that great reviews, and which is still lacking a real world usage case.

If I felt differently I could easily afford it, just like I could about most other Apple products out there.

Correction.
It is getting OVERWHELMINGLY great reviews.

Are you going to want to buy a Vision Pro for $3,500? That price is high enough that the answer is probably not, for most of you, no matter how compelling it is. But are you going to want to try one out for an hour or two, and find yourself craving another hour or two? I guarantee it. You need to see it.

 

[svish]

Good to know about these gestures. Looking forward to hearing more about Vision Pro in the coming months.

 

[docbop]

Can't wait for porn studios to use the camera to make FPS with the Vision Pro headsets.

 

[Ghost31]

Ok ya’ll i cant be the only one that say this picture and tried out all the gestures with my hands for no reason

tap and hold. Swipeeee drag whoosh

 

[michael666]

We need a hand clap 👏🏻 gesture.

Slow clap.

 

[wanha]

So how many false positives will this trigger on a regular basis?

Yes, I know the hands-on* impressions have been overwhelmingly positive so far, but those are done in extremely controlled environments that likely avoid conditions where the hand gestures would perform poorly.

* No pun intended

Probably similar to all the false positives on a touch screen phone, no?

 

[Starscape]

There’s a missing gesture. We need to know the proper gesture for ‘removing money from wallet‘.

 

[MacWiz_007]

And yet I have still never seen a foldy phone outside of a store. It does seem intuitive that folding tablets might someday be a thing, but not clear the technology can support that at viable prices points yet.

I'm not saying this to be snarky, but you should get out more. They are definitely out there in the wild. There is even a Vietnam vet at my local VFW that has a Z Fold 4, and he is 81 years old. I'm far younger than him but I also have a Z Fold 4. Granted, I don't see them all the time, but they are out there.

 

[MacWiz_007]

Correction.
It is getting OVERWHELMINGLY great reviews.

Are you going to want to buy a Vision Pro for $3,500? That price is high enough that the answer is probably not, for most of you, no matter how compelling it is. But are you going to want to try one out for an hour or two, and find yourself craving another hour or two? I guarantee it. You need to see it.

By Apple fans only. Who ever would've guessed?

 

[Killerbob]

The Apple Vision Pro Is a Dystopian Device for a Dystopian World

Commentary: It's not for normal people.

www.cnet.com

The summary literally is “It felt icky”, and “I won’y be buying that”.

 

[Saturn007]

It's the Newton handwriting recognition fiasco all over again! 🙈

Or, more apt, it's the iOS's and iPadOS's extensive violations of the Human Interface Guidelines. They repeatedly fail to be transparent, consistent, and intuitive… ❌ 👎🏾

Stephen Colbert, The Onion, and SNL will have a field day with this! 💯 ✅ 👍🏻

 

[JM]

Nice!!

Does the middle finger do something like force quit apps, or send a mad emoji?

 

[darngooddesign]

What happens if somebody else’s hands enter the field of view of your Vision Pro and start making recognizable gestures, either deliberately or accidentally? Can it determine which are the users hands and which are not?

Probably the same thing if someone standing next to you starts poking your phone screen. Good question though, I wonder if it can determine the orientation of hands.

 

[darngooddesign]

It's the Newton handwriting recognition fiasco all over again! 🙈

Or, more apt, it's the iOS's and iPadOS's extensive violations of the Human Interface Guidelines. They repeatedly fail to be transparent, consistent, and intuitive… ❌ 👎🏾

Stephen Colbert, The Onion, and SNL will have a field day with this! 💯 ✅ 👍🏻

I like the Vision headset, and I look forward to good comedy about it.

This is still pretty great:

 

[StellarVixen]

It will be interesting to see how much fatigue is caused by pinching vs a normal mouse pointer tap. It would seem over time the pinching would add up to be more tiresome and I'd like to know what the average maximum time to wear this headset would be as a result.

Waving your hands around in the air doing gestures is more exhausting than using them for typing and clicking while being supported by the table.

Try this for couple minutes (no headset needed, just pretend you are wearing one) and see for yourself.

 

[X38]

The Apple Vision Pro Is a Dystopian Device for a Dystopian World

Commentary: It's not for normal people.

www.cnet.com

The summary literally is “It felt icky”, and “I won’y be buying that”.

That wasn’t really a review. Just another opinion piece from somebody else who hasn’t even seen or tried the product, like all the rest of us here. And at that, it seemed more like a generic opinion of previous products from other vendors.
From what I have seen, poster KKEE’s statement holds true - reviews from people who have actually tried this thing seem to be overwhelmingly impressed.

 

[XboxEvolved]

And to turn it on, you take your hand, make a fist and do an up and down motion a couple times.

 

[ipedro]

This for real looks like the user guide Chief John Anderton would have studied as part of working at the Department of PreCrime.

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Minority Report gestures worked well in a film, but I like Apple's thumb to index finger pinch. There's less of a chance of error and it implies grabbing invisible points before dragging to zoom, scroll or rotate.

It's amazing that we've gone beyond even Minority Report's future vision and don't even need the light gloves to manipulate spacial UI.

 

[ipedro]

Interested to see if developers can incorporate additional gestures for their apps.

They can. There was a WWDC session on exactly this. They showed a Fruit Ninja chop gesture as an example. The guidance was to use the default gestures as much as possible but that devs could create their own for unique needs, as long as they're easy to learn and perform and can be done repeatedly without error or overlap with other gestures.

 

[ipedro]

I thought they said they wouldn't add touchscreens on Macs because your arms would get tired. Now this lol.

Someone didn't pay attention during the event.

You can keep your hands in your lap or on your sides. You control the focus with your eyes, your hands simply execute an action.

 

[ipedro]

You cannot wear this at a birthday party for your kids and shoot 3D photos and still be in those photos. They need iPhone to have the capability to shoot 3D photos (including selfies) so you don't have to be wearing Vision Pro (maybe iPhone 15?).

Bingo. I think that it's a given that 3D photography is going to become a big thing for Apple, available on all devices with cameras. 3D photos can also be experienced on 2D devices, in the same way that perspective zoom wallpapers and Apple TV icons work, by tilting the device or hovering over it.

Existing iPhones can already shoot 3D photos by using the telephoto lens to separate the background from the foreground – which is how the Portrait photography feature works. iOS 16's subject lifting will play a role in converting previously 2D photos to 3D by creating layers between the foreground and background using ML. I wonder if newer phones will have lenses further apart or if they'll just continue with the existing ML approach.

 

[Desertdan]

I didn’t see 💰💰💰💰💰💰

 

[NT1440]

Probably the same thing if someone standing next to you starts poking your phone screen. Good question though, I wonder if it can determine the orientation of hands.

Think about this for a sec. The only way random hands can make it into the view of the cameras without already being detected as another person is for someone to come up behind you and basically hug you from behind.

At that point, you’ve already got bigger problems to deal with.

 

[darngooddesign]

Think about this for a sec. The only way random hands can make it into the view of the cameras without already being detected as another person is for someone to come up behind you and basically hug you from behind.

At that point, you’ve already got bigger problems to deal with.

Or better problems 😜

 

[SSDGUY]

Will be interesting letting these gestures replace a mouse or trackpad while using a physical keyboard for things like copy/paste, comm Z, and other key commands along with general typing. Hard to imagine a floating virtual keyboard being very useful with no tactile response.