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A lot of the individual tech pieces to make it work have been going into other products for years. Like head tracking in AirPods, face id, Memoji, probably lidar, certainly other things that aren't coming to me right now. A lot of things that seemed like gimmicks that turned out, it seems to me, were really for Vision Pro.

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I highly doubt that the head tracking on AirPods is the same implementation as VP. VP uses iris ID, not Face ID. Memoji is a non factor. Lidar’s usage is probably also very different.

There’s minor overlap but I feel like the R&D cost of the VP didn’t have much overlap with other products. Except the M2 SoC.

Yea but the inherent costs are not in the implementation. The complexity of integrating something like head tracking is only 10% to do with the “type” of head tracking.

So even if VP head tracking works differently, the groundwork has been laid for that category of feature.

Why wouldn't the head tracking be the same? They use the same H2 chip as AirPods. FaceID probably implemented ideas used by iris ID. Learnings from Memoji almost definitely underly the personas. Lidar in the wild I am sure provided valuable data and got developers used to working with AR.

From what has been reported - a lot of the AR things, including RealityKit and ARKit came from the TDG which are also who made VP.

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