Meta looks to knock off Apple Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature

Image from Meta Platforms’ “Embedded Sensors in Immersive Reality Headset to enable Social Presence” patent application.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has filed a patent that looks very similar to Apple Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature. Meta’s patent application is called “Embedded Sensors in Immersive Reality Headset to enable Social Presence.”

Jack Purcher for Patently Apple:
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It also confirms that a redesign of their Quest headset or an all-new headset design is being considered to support this feature. To distinguish it from Apple’s Eyesight, Meta notes that some of the sensors in face interface may include health sensors.

Meta’s Patent Abstract: A method for updating a subject avatar with a facial expression collected in real time. The method includes receiving, from a sensor on a facial interface of a headset, a signal indicative of a movement in a facial muscle from a user of the headset, determining a facial expression of the user with the signal from the sensor in the facial interface of the headset, based on a machine learning algorithm trained to associate the facial expression to the movement of the facial muscle, adjusting a subject avatar for the user of the headset based on the facial expression, and providing the subject avatar to an immersive reality application hosted by a remote server…

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