Apple Vision Pro involved a lot of neuroscience to develop some of its key features, according to a former Apple engineer, with it relying on various tricks to determine what

Apple Vision Pro involved a lot of neuroscience to develop some of its key features, according to a former Apple engineer, with it relying on various tricks to determine what a person could be about to do in the interface.

The main interface of Apple’s Vision Pro headset is based on navigating using eye tracking and gestures, with the system needing to determine what the user’s looking at specifically as quickly as possible. In a Twitter posting on Monday, the curtain is pulled to reveal some of the early thought that went into the project.Sterling Crispin spent time as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group at Apple for over three years, the longest he’s “ever worked on a single effort.” While there, he worked on elements that supported the foundational development of the headset, including the “mindfulness experiences” and other “ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology.”

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