{"id":1473,"date":"2025-06-21T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1473\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:18:19","slug":"vision-pros-new-personas-are-a-big-improvement-but-how-will-they-scale-to-smaller-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1473\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Pro&#8217;s New Personas Are a Big Improvement, But How Will They Scale to Smaller Headsets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        One Possible Solution<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mindmaze-mask.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden size-large wp-image-63810\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mindmaze-mask-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a>Image courtesy MindMaze<\/p>\n<p>One option for overcoming this challenge could be not to\u00a0see the user\u2019s face, but to sense it.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2017, I demoed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/mindmaze-mask-vr-face-tracking-hands-on\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">face-tracking technology from a company called MindMaze<\/a>. Instead of cameras, the company\u2019s prototype used an array of electrodes in the headset\u2019s facepad to measure facial muscle activity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mindmaze-mask-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden size-large wp-image-63812\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mindmaze-mask-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Road to VR<\/p>\n<p>This early prototype used eight electrodes, and thus created eight streams of data corresponding to the movement of my face. Even without personal calibration, the system was able to accurately match a range of face motions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mindmaze-mask-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden size-large wp-image-63813\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mindmaze-mask-2-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Road to VR<\/p>\n<p>Although it wasn\u2019t nearly as precise as what we see today on Vision Pro, the combination of machine learning progress over the last eight years, the potential to use significantly more electrodes, and the potential for personal calibration, leads me to believe this solution could be a viable path to face-tracking without direct line-of-sight with cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Even with a more advanced version of this electrode-based system, it could still be challenging to achieve realistic mouth motions. To help on that front, lip-sync prediction based on audio input (and using personal calibration) could boost accuracy further.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this approach (if it works at all) only works as long as XR headsets remain in the \u2018goggles\u2019 era, wherein the headset maintains significant contact around the user\u2019s eyes. As we approach fully-featured XR \u2018glasses\u2019, yet another solution for accurate face-tracking will be needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Possible Solution Image courtesy MindMaze One option for overcoming this challenge could be not to\u00a0see the user\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-1473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114719667492542916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}