Hacker News Reader

Comment by nrightnour | Hacker News Reader

Are you sure visionOS requires it? Having an icon be a few px smaller so a microphone can stick out, doesn't seem like a big deal for tracking.

View on HN

The thing sticking outside of the icon draws the eye to it, which means your focus is at the edge instead of the center, which makes for a more error prone experience.

Since the eyes are the cursor, this is a problem. Desktop and mobile don’t have this issue.

Obvious solution, two different icons, round one for Vision OS, more shapely one for everyone else.

Or squirqle jail just on vision OS

Or squirgle jail on a transparent background instead of a grey one? Why would cursor collision with an image stop working because a new input method?

Maybe an animation which focuses the eye on the center of the icon?

> The thing sticking outside of the icon draws the eye to it, which means your focus is at the edge instead of the center, which makes for a more error prone experience.

And Apple decided this was a problem with icons, rather than a problem with the way they implemented their vision tracking? Believable, and laughable.

"You're looking at it wrong"

It seems like the opposite of this. They tried to adapt the system to the way the eyes naturally work, rather than trying to tell people they needed to overcome their biology to use the system.

This is a false dichotomy. If the software assumes that people focus on the center of the thing they're looking at, the software is wrong. Fix the software.

Where you are looking should not be the cursor, that is obviously dumb. Should be where your nose is pointing.

Regardless, you don't need to make the hitboxes one-to-one with the graphics. Indeed, doing so tends to make for unreliable hitboxes, so most picking systems have two different, idealized enter and exit hitboxes for each icon.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com