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by modeless 858 days ago
I agree. I do think eye tracking selection is part of the solution, but combined with at least one physical button on a physical controller. The worst part of my Vision Pro demo was the finger gesture tracking; it's simultaneously impressively good and not nearly good enough. The reliability and tactile feedback of buttons can't be beat.

But there are a lot of ways to do minimal controllers that don't look like gamepads. They could be tiny to fit on your keychain, or built into a ring the size of a normal wedding band. You really only need one solitary button when combined with eye tracking. Since you're already carrying your phone everywhere, perhaps phones could add a physical button on the back for this use case. (The existing buttons wouldn't be good for this because they are intentionally hard to press.)