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by Sohcahtoa82 22 days ago
So what, this uses the gyroscope in AirPods (Why do headphones need a gyroscrope?) to turn head movements into scrolling?

Sounds like a terrible idea. Like...cool. I decided to move my head around to stretch my neck and now I've lost my position on the document I was reading.

I'll keep my scroll wheel.
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tippa123 22 days ago
Because of Spatial Audio. Give it a try, you will be positively surprised. Especially on scrolling via turning your head horizontally. On the problem you described I implemented a gesture called pause. Meaning if your head exceeds the degrees you have specified it will pause ScrollPods automatically.
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Sohcahtoa82 22 days ago
I don't own AirPods and never will. I file them under "They sound amazing if you've never listened to headphones that actually sound amazing". The same category as Beats by Dre.

And why would I ever want Spatial Audio? If I'm listening to music, I don't need to sound like it's coming from a specific direction. If I'm watching a video, it's already going to have stereo sound. I don't need it to change based on head movements. If I'm on a Zoom/Teams meeting, I know I can create positional audio, and moving my head to face the voice is just going to be weird.

The scroll wheel works. I don't need to replace it. If I want to free up that hand, I think the better solution is eye tracking from the web cam on top of my screen.

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