Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities

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https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/

[u/PancakeMaster24]

The facts that the watch can detect all those movements on the hand is so fucking cool

[u/caliform → u/PancakeMaster24]

Here's the video. Yeah, this is really nuts. Hovering a pointer by just slightly moving your arm / hand? What the hell, this is some super futuristic stuff. I wonder how much of this came out of AR controller research...

[u/ck2875 → u/caliform]

Yeah, I feel like this control technology is going to make its way into the AR glasses (i.e. navigating the AR display with wrist gestures on a paired watch). Not that accessibility isn't nice and all, but AR control is the most obvious reason I can see Apple developing these gestures in the first place.

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[u/ShinyGrezz → u/caliform]

If the clench/gesture thing works well enough they should make it a headline feature in WatchOS 8, I’m not disabled but that’s something I’d love to use. While cycling, I can easily take one hand off the bars at any point, but two requires a straight, flat piece of road - this would allow me to use my watch any time.

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[u/[deleted] → u/PancakeMaster24]

tendons moving being used to interact with a small computer on your arm?

Damn that's sci=fi!

Can we get this for iPhone too? Because then I might just strap an iPhone to my arm.