Suddenly the Vision Pro’s external display turns green – but what does it mean? Maybe the person wearing the Apple headset is feeling sick? No, not at all, as Apple said in a fresh update on Thursday iSight Usage Support Document Explains: The user is only using FaceTime, either in passthrough mode (you can still see your eyes) or immersively (green conversation only).
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Five modes in two variants
In fact, there are a total of ten different ways that iSight informs the outside world about different usage situations. However, they are not really comfortable. There’s a fundamental difference between using it with personalized Eyesight – i.e. your own eyes are read as part of the first persona – or non-personalized. Non-personalized, indicated only by eyes.
Personalized always looks better to outsiders because it looks more natural – if that’s usually the case with pixelated iSight displays. The modes available with Persona are: no content displayed (you see eyes on a black background), apps are used in (partial) passthrough mode (blue with eyes), apps are used immersively ( Blue-red blur), and FaceTime is used (green with eyes: passthrough, green blur: immersive).
anything but intuitive
One wonders how outsiders are supposed to distinguish between the methods. For example, the editorial team was not aware that the display color “green” meant FaceTime – which is why we still have a question pending with Apple, now resolved with a support document. Is. It’s hard to imagine handing a full-color paper to your family or audience before it came under Vision Pro.
The purpose of iSight is really to ensure that headset users are less isolated from the outside world. Since, as mentioned, the screen is pixelated and, above all, quite dark, this is simply sub-optimal, especially since the color modes in question are more confusing than helpful. It will be exciting to see if Apple installs an improved iSight display in the second generation of the Vision Pro – and/or removes it from the cheaper version.
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