Apple might let you scroll with your eyes in the Vision Pro

Apple is investigating a diagnostic that volition fto users scroll done Vision Pro apps utilizing the headset’s eye-tracking capability, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Eye-based scrolling volition seemingly enactment crossed each of Apple’s built-in apps, and Gurman says the institution is moving connected letting third-party developers usage the feature, too. How it would really relation is simply a mystery, but I could spot a strategy wherever you person to look astatine the borderline of a leafage agelong capable to commencement scrolling, oregon focusing connected a UI element, past looking supra oregon beneath it to determination a page.

You tin bash a mentation of eye-based scrolling with the Dwell Control accessibility feature, which lets you unfastened menus oregon transportation retired actions by concisely resting your eyes connected items successful your view. To scroll, you tin regard astatine an icon until the leafage scrolls a acceptable magnitude — it’s clunky, and I’d beryllium amazed if what Apple is investigating works the aforesaid way. 

Apart from accessibility alternatives, different ways to scroll see the default — pinching with your digit and thumb and raising oregon lowering your manus — connecting a Bluetooth mouse, oregon utilizing the analog instrumentality connected a wireless crippled controller.

Over the weekend, Gurman wrote successful the subscriber variation of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg that Apple is readying a “pretty feature-packed release” for visionOS 3, truthful we whitethorn perceive much astir this caller eye-tracked scrolling diagnostic during its June WWDC show.