The release of Apple’s new mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro, could cause a seismic shift in how users will experience the metaverse, with developers potentially moving away from the absolute isolation of virtual reality.

Unlike today's virtual reality headsets, which center on full immersion, Apple’s Vision Pro - unveiled on June 5 - can also superimpose applications onto the real world, letting users "interact with digital content in a way that feels like it is physically present in their space.” said by KPMG’s Head of Metaverse Alyse Su to Cointelegraph 

The headset introduces a new technology it calls "EyeSight," which uses lens trickery to make the user’s facial expressions look natural to outsiders. EyeSight also allows the display to switch between a transparent and opaque view, depending on whether a user is consuming immersive content or interacting with people in the real world.

Apple’s pupil-tracking technology works by detecting the mental state of users based on data from their eye movements and the response of their pupils to stimulus. It then uses artificial intelligence to make predictions about their emotions.

Peter Xing, the founder of blockchain-based project Transhuman Coin also praised the headset’s design for “integrating with the natural way we interact as humans” and pointed to its unique eye-tracking capabilities as one of the bigger leaps forward for the metaverse.

Source: Cointelegraph