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My biggest problem is that it is sometimes difficult to read the keys on my keyboard. I really wish that it could do object recognition on my keyboard and re-render the keycaps. This would be especially useful in "environments", which make the keyboard disappear entirely.

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I was surprised Apple didn't have this. My Meta Quest 2 had a super crappy version I tried for all of 2 minutes. The AVP passthrough and rendering content behind your hand (cut out?) both leave some to be desired. The little indicator that floats over your keyboard is cool, touch bar coming back from the grave. But I felt like I couldn't dial in the environment past the point where I could still see my keyboard/hands because of the "keyboard disappearing" issue.

I found setting the environment immersion to around 50% lets me see enough of my keyboard so I’m not groping around for it.

I’d also like to see app re-render your iPhone, Apple Watch and ipad screens which are pretty blurry in pass through. Also some sort of workaround for Face ID on iPhone when you’re wearing Vision Pro. Seems like things Apple is uniquely positioned to do.

> I’d also like to see app re-render your iPhone, Apple Watch and ipad screens which are pretty blurry in pass through.

Totally agree, I just made the same comment elsewhere in this thread. And yes, if I've authenticated with IrisID or whatever it's called then when I raise my phone do the same thing that allows my mac to unlock from my watch. Throw a little notification in the headset (some sound/animation) so if it's not me picking up the phone then it alerts me that someone else is and/or force me to do the IrisID to unlock the phone. After years of FaceID I just expect it to work 99% of the time and it was annoying to enter in my code to use my phone, felt very anti-Apple. A very Apple thing was the Universal Control when using Mac Virtual Display which lets you control/type in other AVP apps, that felt like magic.

This is really just an opportunity for you to up your typing game. Black out your letters a few at a time until the keyboard is blank.

I can touch type just fine, it’s finding the home row to put my fingers in the start positions that is the problem. Blacking out my keyboard wouldn’t accomplish anything.

Pretty much every keyboard out there has little bumps on the F and J keys for exactly this purpose.

I know. I understand. But you still have to grope around for a couple of seconds to find them.

It's not impossible, it's just annoying.

Aw ok, so when you use AVP are you frequently leaving the keyboard to do other gestures?

This. I'm a touch-typist but I still find myself fumbling around trying to find where to put my hands when I first start typing while in an environment. I don't do that when I can see my keyboard in my peripheral vision though, so I think the keyboard object recognition would help.

It doesn’t need to do that, just be sufficiently high resolution.

Well fine, but the resolution isn’t high enough, so it does need to do that.

I thought oculus already had that!

That is a really good idea

Such a great idea that Meta implemented it for Quest already. https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/headsets-and-access...

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