Anyone who wears glasses and wants to create a digital image with Apple’s first spatial computer, the Vision Pro, will probably have to do without a detailed image of their glasses. Finds of code fragments in the current beta of the visionOS operating system provide for the first time insights into the creation process of the so-called persona. Apple wants to use this, for example, to display the headset wearers as a digital image to other users in video calls. A real image is not possible because the headset itself covers the user’s head during the phone call.
Advertisement
The setup process apparently takes place with the Vision Pro removed, with the user looking at the front of the headset. This was found out by the X/Twitter user M1Astra, who published his discoveries in a post.
Progress display in the external display
There are suggestions that the Vision Pro’s external display will show instructions on how to create it. As with Face ID facial recognition, the Vision Pro first asks the user to align themselves within a frame on the camera image. Under certain circumstances it will probably be necessary for another person to hold the headset.
During the setup process, which takes several minutes, the user is asked to make various facial expressions, raise their eyebrows and smile, alternating between showing and without showing their teeth. In addition, the head must be moved in different directions so that the device can create a correct 3D image. Existing glasses must be removed during setup. In one of the next steps, you can simply choose from a range of predefined visual aids to equip your own persona with.
Lens inserts instead of glasses
As is well known, you cannot wear glasses under the headset itself. Apple is instead planning to use lenses that are magnetically inserted into the headset for people who wear glasses.
An interesting technical detail is that the digital figures are stored encrypted for 30 days by those called and calling. This week it will probably be possible to display the respective persona more quickly during repeated video calls.
The Vision Pro is scheduled to appear in the USA in early 2024. At the beginning, however, limited production output is expected.
(mki)