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Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by 121789 »

astrange wrote: post #61
droopyEyelids wrote: post #28

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Have you noticed any correlation between how hungry you are and how fast motion sickness kicks in?

I'm not sure why, but I feel like I only get motion sickness in the back of Priuses. It must be something about their braking curve. I don't sit in enough EVs to tell if they're the same.

Teslas are especially bad for me. I think it’s the rough suspension and fast acceleration/deceleration

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by yc-kraln »

astrange wrote: post #61
droopyEyelids wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you noticed any correlation between how hungry you are and how fast motion sickness kicks in?

I'm not sure why, but I feel like I only get motion sickness in the back of Priuses. It must be something about their braking curve. I don't sit in enough EVs to tell if they're the same.

Toyota's hybrids are the worst. I never get motion sick except as a passenger in any Toyota hybrid

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by GiorgioG »

My wife is a hospice nurse and from time to time she'll have a patient without any ability to communicate except their eyes (think ALS) - for these folks in their final days/weeks of life this will be a godsend. There are specialized eye-tracking devices, but they're expensive and good luck getting them approved by insurance in time for the folks in need near the end of their lives.

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by rootusrootus »

astrange wrote: post #61
droopyEyelids wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you noticed any correlation between how hungry you are and how fast motion sickness kicks in?

I'm not sure why, but I feel like I only get motion sickness in the back of Priuses. It must be something about their braking curve. I don't sit in enough EVs to tell if they're the same.

Some people never really learn how to use one-pedal driving, so they end up just going back and forth between accelerating and decelerating. That'll make me motion sick in a hurry, and I bet that is fairly universal (among people prone to motion sickness in cars, that is). So in that sense, any EV or hybrid is potentially a problem, depending on the driver.

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by ErigmolCt »

xnx wrote: post #9

I love accessibility features because they might be the last features developed solely with the benefit of the user in mind. So many other app/os features are designed to steal your attention or gradually nerf usefulness.

Accessibility features stand out as user-centric developments, love that

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by rootusrootus »

121789 wrote: post #81
astrange wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why, but I feel like I only get motion sickness in the back of Priuses. It must be something about their braking curve. I don't sit in enough EVs to tell if they're the same.

Teslas are especially bad for me. I think it’s the rough suspension and fast acceleration/deceleration

The instant-on power and braking takes some getting used to. For the folks who have trouble mastering it, my recommendation is chill mode. It has a much softer acceleration profile, mostly eliminating the harsh starts you might be experiencing.

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by rootusrootus »

resource_waste wrote: post #60
simonw wrote: post #58

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Apple are very good about not making this kind of thing available to apps that don't have an explicit reason to need it.

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It is preferable to the reflexive cynicism and nihilism that is so prevalent online. At least the supporters have put some thought into their argument.

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by ErigmolCt »

Shank wrote: post #13

> Vehicle Motion Cues is a new experience for iPhone and iPad that can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles. This excites me so, so much! I can't really use my phone as a passenger in a car without getting motion sick after 1-2 minutes. This seems like it might be a promising thing to try.

I have motion sickness... It's so hard to movearound for me and I am still not able to find what works best for me

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by amlib »

favorited wrote: post #80
ben_w wrote: post #75

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System one is, but advertisers could always roll their own and see if they can get away with "you can only view this content if you give us permission to use your camera".

At least on iOS, I can't imagine that happening - apps are not allowed to demand you grant permissions unrelated to the actual functionality. From App Review Guidelines (5.1.1) Data Collection and Storage, (ii) Access: > Apps must respect the user’s permission settings and not attempt to manipulate, trick, or force people to consent to unnecessary data access. For example, apps that include the ability to post photos…

It's not that hard to come with ways to circumvent system restrictions, after all, advertisers are a fierce adversary and have shown many clever ways of invading users privacy in web browsers and mobile apps. In the case of eye tracking I could see a situation where the system perhaps feeds the "malicious" app in question with a hint of which widget is being currently gazed by the user. You could then just build a giant grid of invisible widgets covering the whole app window and use that to reconstruct the all the eye tracking happening inside your app.

Re: Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

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Post by ErigmolCt »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #28
Shank wrote: post #13

> Vehicle Motion Cues is a new experience for iPhone and iPad that can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles. This excites me so, so much! I can't really use my phone as a passenger in a car without getting motion sick after 1-2 minutes. This seems like it might be a promising thing to try.

Have you noticed any correlation between how hungry you are and how fast motion sickness kicks in?

I have not. For me, it does not matter. The ride begins - the motion sickness kicks in
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