Apple is testing a feature that will allow users to scroll through Vision Pro apps using the headset’s eye-tracking feature, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Apparently, the eye movement-based scrolling will work across all of Apple’s built-in apps, and Gurman says the company is working to allow third-party developers to use the feature as well. Exactly how it will work remains a mystery, but I envision a system in which you’ll need to look at the edge of the page long enough to start scrolling, or focus on an interface element and then look above or below it to move the page.
You can scroll using the Dwell Control accessibility feature, which allows you to open menus or perform actions by briefly pausing your gaze on items in your field of view. To scroll, you can stare at an icon until the page scrolls a set distance – this is awkward, and I’d be surprised if what Apple is testing works the same way.
In addition to the alternative scrolling methods, other ways to scroll include the standard one of squeezing your thumb and forefinger and raising or lowering your hand, connecting a Bluetooth mouse, or using the analog joystick on a wireless game controller.
Over the weekend, Gurman wrote in a subscription edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg that Apple is planning a “pretty feature-rich release” for visionOS 3, so we may hear more about this new eye-tracking scrolling feature during June’s WWDC.
