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> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc.

I don't really know how I feel about this...

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> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure,…

This quickly becomes creepy beyond my wildest imaginations. Kill it with fire, please.

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post #2

> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure,…

There is more:

> Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.

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> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure,…

This quickly becomes creepy beyond my wildest imaginations. Kill it with fire, please.

Why? The more personal a device is and the closer it becomes to interfacing with who we are, the more it will need to do things like this to work, else it will just feel off.

Re: Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

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This whole tweet had the same tone as when pop science crime investigation TV explains a criminal can be identified through its gait alone.

It's always magic, except when the predictive model doesn't work and there is no corrective action possible on the user side.

We're talking about physical reactions, so that means it's supposed to be the same through gender, age, race, health conditions from the algorithm's point of view...That's a lot of variables, and I wonder if Apple have analyzed this beyond the US population, assuming the device will be sold internationally at some point.

Apple seems really confident about this as they are foregoing controllers on the default interfaces, but that also reminds me on how they were rumored to make a car without a driving wheel...fingers crossed, I guess.

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> So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure,…

> I don't really know how I feel about this...

But the headset of course does !

Otherwise, it could be interesting if as users we got access to all these measurements, for our personal use. That could open the door to many other applications that would be probably less creepy.

Re: Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

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It looks like this is mostly about patents. Apple has a history of doing lots of hardware and software research, not all of that gets to be part of an actual release.

Is anything indicating that solutions mentioned in the post would actually become part of Apple Vision?

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