Anytime dystopia + advertising comes up, I always harken back to the TV Ad patent that required you to "jump for joy and scream the advertisers name" in order to end the commercial.
lmfao - I literally laugh out loud every time I see it
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Apple Announces iOS 18 Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking
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Anytime dystopia + advertising comes up, I always harken back to the TV Ad patent that required you to "jump for joy and scream the advertisers name" in order to end the commercial.
lmfao - I literally laugh out loud every time I see it
all google / meta / bytedance affiliated advertising companies: Enable eye tracking on your iPhone so we can give you more personalized ads!
I wish Apple would take up my suggestion....I would like for iPhone/iPad devices to recognize whether or not I have my readers on and adjust the resolution accordingly. This would help most people over 45.
accessibility really is one area where Apple consistently hits it out of the park. kudos to them on this one. WWDC ‘24 is…somehow even more exciting than last year. that’s kinda insane for what I would hope are obvious reasons. 😛
These are accessibility features and those are off by default and you need to toggle them on.
so…a quick DDG search (along with the AVP demo I did a few months back) tells me two things, respectively: 1) Camera Switches is not nearly as comprehensive as the eye-tracking features Apple is introducing; 2) Project Gameface became open-source…less than 24 hours ago. not the best argument for “Google did it first.” 😆
Exactly, and that's always how it has been
this is quite a hilarious comment to make on a post about accessibility features, lotta energy over a bunch of features that are off by default/buried deep in the Settings app 🤣
All this sounds so cool!
Especially all the more intrigued by the voice control features they're mentioning for CarPlay as well as the sound recognition too.
Voice controls for CP I'm curious about though; I know there's stuff you can already do via Siri and all, so just wondering what there is that would be added via these voice controls.
Also, while sound recognition for CarPlay does sound cool for things like car horns or sirens, part of me fears that it could pick up on false positives from things from music that feature sounds like a car horn or a siren. Knowing Apple, they'll probably have that down pat though!
Especially all the more intrigued by the voice control features they're mentioning for CarPlay as well as the sound recognition too.
Voice controls for CP I'm curious about though; I know there's stuff you can already do via Siri and all, so just wondering what there is that would be added via these voice controls.
Also, while sound recognition for CarPlay does sound cool for things like car horns or sirens, part of me fears that it could pick up on false positives from things from music that feature sounds like a car horn or a siren. Knowing Apple, they'll probably have that down pat though!
FaceID can already see which way your eyes are looking so it makes sense that most of these features will be FaceID devices only.
I hope it will be able to recognize burping as a “custom utterance”.
No one mentioned the fact eye tracking is also able to detect your partners wandering eyes in public..
Apples advanced ML architecture enables eye tracking and facial expression recognition of sender and recipient for unparalleled analysis of those social interactions. Automatic alerts can be sent to partner together with a 3D reconstruction of said events.
We are so excited to see what couples do with eye tracking on iPhone
🤔😱
Apples advanced ML architecture enables eye tracking and facial expression recognition of sender and recipient for unparalleled analysis of those social interactions. Automatic alerts can be sent to partner together with a 3D reconstruction of said events.
We are so excited to see what couples do with eye tracking on iPhone
🤔😱
Hands-free browsing? This is going to be so helpful to countless people late at night! Because of, uh... reasons.
...accessibility reasons. Yeah. 🫣
Prove it otherwise you're saying a whole lot of nothing.
Switches is literally how this would work on iOS. It augments the already existing Switches iOS accessibility feature by now allowing you to use your eyes as a switch to perform the same tasks. You can navigate the whole operating system and apps using a few gesture commands.
Camera Switches on Android is very comprehensive. The extent of customizability and features are impressive to say the least.
Project game face which became open source 24hrs ago which is a good thing, meaning anyone is allowed to use it, improve it, build it natively into their apps/games or create bespoke version of it. Takes this a step further, using face tracking, not just eye tracking allowing a more fine-tuned control of games. Something that you cannot do with camera switches.
I'm not making a who did it first argument, I'm refuting this nonsense that only Apple does things like this or does it well.
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The problem is they are neglecting all the “pedestrian” software features and software quality maintenance. It’s always such “cool” new features that are being added, but many basic issues remain unaddressed because they are not sexy enough.
Im surprised that there isn't more hype about the "Teach Siri to do complex tasks by using a phrase you teach it". THATS HUGE! I would love for that to then be handed down to the HomePods as well. And it's the 1 thing in this article that says "Here it is, Next subject" - no info included there.
Well, if those screenshots are legit, the rumored big redesign is def not happening. Looks the same as iOS 17.
No necessarily. You don't need to show the new UI to advertise a feature. I'm not saying there is going to be a big design change just saying you don't need to show it to advertise features.
Absolutely — they really deserve massive credit for what they’ve done with accessibility features.
Regarding Vision Pro — really like using sound recognition to go home, instead of pressing the crown. I was using the tongue click, but the “sh” sound seems to work better for me.
Eye Tracking, huh? Proof of Nietzche's hypothesis:
"And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
And what I call "anti"social media is probably the deepest abyss ever created.
"And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
And what I call "anti"social media is probably the deepest abyss ever created.
Found the actual patent this is from: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454Anytime dystopia + advertising comes up, I always harken back to the TV Ad patent that required you to "jump for joy and scream the advertisers name" in order to end the commercial.
lmfao - I literally laugh out loud every time I see it
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