{"id":101388,"date":"2025-05-14T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101388\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:50:08","slug":"apple-vision-pro-will-use-eye-tracking-to-let-you-scroll-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101388\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Vision Pro will use eye tracking to let you scroll apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owners of the Apple Vision Pro<\/a> will soon have the option of scrolling through apps using their eyes, without lifting a finger. <\/p>\n

The Apple Vision Pro primarily uses hand gestures as its control scheme, with users able to select items and make changes with a movement of the fingers. It seems Apple’s making it possible to do some things without needing gestures at all. <\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg on Wednesday<\/a>, Apple is working on a feature that builds upon the existing eye-tracking functionality of the Apple Vision Pro. Allegedly being tested for possible inclusion in visionOS 3<\/a>, it will let users move around the app simply by looking around. <\/p>\n

The Apple Vision Pro already uses eye-tracking to determine what a user is looking at, with a pinching hand gesture used to select what is being focused upon. This seems like it would be a fairly reasonable progression of the functionality, and could be a boon for users who don’t necessarily wish to keep raising and lowering their hands to interact with an app. <\/p>\n

Report sources say that Apple will be making the functionality available across its own app collection. Developers will also be able to use the feature in their visionOS apps. <\/p>\n

The Apple Vision Pro is not the only device with eye-tracking functions. In June 2024, Apple introduced eye-tracking features<\/a> to iOS 18<\/a> and iPadOS 18<\/a> as an accessibility feature, using the front-facing camera. <\/p>\n

In that iteration, Dwell Control automatically selects an item for a user once they have rested their gaze on a selectable element for a period of time. Smoothing and Snap-to-Item were also configurable to help with hands-free navigation. <\/p>\n

The first opportunity for the feature’s appearance would be WWDC<\/a>, with the keynote set to air on June 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owners of the Apple Vision Pro will soon have the option of scrolling through apps using their eyes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[1191,3562,1662,3553,3554,3084,3543,867,3550,3556,3564,3555,3569,3547,3548,1667,1666,3545,3546,3561,3542,3544,3541,3549,3563,3565,3551,3552,3557,3558,3560,3559,507,547,3568,3359,3566,3567,542,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-101388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-adobe","9":"tag-app-store","10":"tag-apple","11":"tag-apple-computer","12":"tag-apple-computer-inc","13":"tag-apple-inc","14":"tag-apple-tv","15":"tag-google","16":"tag-i-mac","17":"tag-ibook","18":"tag-ibook-store","19":"tag-imac","20":"tag-intel","21":"tag-ios-9","22":"tag-ios9","23":"tag-ipad","24":"tag-iphone","25":"tag-iphone-6","26":"tag-iphone-6s","27":"tag-ipod-classic","28":"tag-ipod-nano","29":"tag-ipod-shuffle","30":"tag-ipod-touch","31":"tag-itunes","32":"tag-itunes-store","33":"tag-mac-book","34":"tag-mac-os-x","35":"tag-mac-osx","36":"tag-mac-pro","37":"tag-macbook-pro","38":"tag-magic-mouse","39":"tag-magic-pad","40":"tag-microsoft","41":"tag-mobile","42":"tag-nokia","43":"tag-nvidia","44":"tag-research-in-motion","45":"tag-rim","46":"tag-samsung","47":"tag-technology","48":"tag-uk","49":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114507456481359911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}