The virtual keyboard in visionOS shows off Apple’s famously high level of attention to detail, “with many small elements combining to make a great UI interaction for a non-physical peripheral,” Malcolm Owen writes for AppleInsider.
Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider:
or VR headsets or AR applications, a keyboard can be hard to implement, since a user typically cannot see the real-world physical version. Software keyboards in virtual space are also hamstrung by a lack of tactile feedback from pressing non-existent buttons, along with the typical use of controllers to do each of the presses.
The Apple Vision Pro, with its mixed-reality display, manages to offer an excellent concept for a keyboard, and one that relies a lot on the hand detection system. Sure, Siri could be used for text entry, but the keyboard is also there as an option.
Developer Atilla Taskiran took to Twitter on Sunday to outline how Apple’s software keyboard has great “attention to details.” Breaking down the keyboard and showing with an animated gif, Taskiran offers three graphical elements that each keystroke uses.
Attention to details is crucial, especially when it comes to interactions.
👇🏼Here’s a little breakdown of the keyboard interaction and visual feedback in visionOS.
1. Look at how the keys get highlighted when hovering with the fingers over them. ❤️
2. Pressing a key pushes it downwards on the Z axsis.
3. Additionally a little circular pulse expands outwards for visual confirmation.Just looking at this is so satisfying, but typing in Vision Pro must be another level of satisfaction.
MacDailyNews Note: Taşkıran’s animated gif:
Attention to details is crucial, especially when it comes to interactions.
👇🏼Here's a little breakdown of the keyboard interaction and visual feedback in visionOS.
1. Look at how the keys get highlighted when hovering with the fingers over them. ❤️
2. Pressing a key pushes it… pic.twitter.com/07Yy81swCg— Atilla (@_atilla1) June 11, 2023
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The goggles have me super exciting. The product seems just next level awesome. Kudos to Apple!
I was skeptical but almost all the tech reviews seem blown away. Im gonna buy day 1.
Right, hunting and pecking on this virtual gimmick keyboard is good? You fanboys are absurd. This is NOT anywhere as good as a physical keyboard. Nobody will use stuff worse than what they have.
What a scene!
are there laws against wearing the goggles whilst driving?
the no-looking at your phone law doesn’t seem to cover it to me
Im living off 2 minute noodle for the next 6 months to get myself one, re-reading “Ready Player One’ to get pumped
Wearing them while would be crazy. You’re not actually viewing the outside world. A system crash and you’re suddenly blind, leading to an actual crash.