An Action Button might be added to future Apple Vision Pro earphones.

A top-down view of one feasible location for a touch-sensitive power on the Apple Vision Pro is shown in the patent’s information.
Apple is looking into how to best contribute a touch-sensitive customization feature to the Apple Vision Pro that resembles the iPhone’s Action Button. Put it to everything if it works, if it does. The Action Button was first introduced on the Apple Watch Ultra in 2022, but it later became available on the phone 15 Pro, and it is now present on all phone 16 designs. Then, a recently granted patent demonstrates that Apple has done extensive research, including creating an action box with the form of a touch-sensitive place for the Apple Vision Pro. The invention, which was originally filed in June 2023, states that” Challenges may come in providing production and getting suggestions in a portable electronic device such as a head-mounted device.” In addition to being cumbersome to use and possibly unable to deliver desired outcome, Apple’s proposed solution is one or more “finger sensors that are configured to detect feel type, power output, and/or other input “#13. A device was “run along a secondary edge of an additional show mounted on the front encounter” of the headset. The sensor could have” a proximity device configured to detect hands that are not touching the thumb detector,” as well as suggestions for feel and power output. Additionally, it may provide haptic feedback ( for example, when a user presses a finger sensor ).” &# 13, So it’s a touch-sensitive area of the front of the Apple Vision Pro, or it might be a section that can sense force as if it were a button. Or, probably, it may accept taps and presses as well as swipes. 13 / 13 / It’s a exceedingly brief patent with around 2300 phrases and 10 illustrations. This is a far cry from the typical 40-pagers that are reviewed thrice weekly. 13, But this proposal’s focus is more on how it might work than on how it might be used, which is even more important than the majority of Apple patents. &# 13, Most designs have a contact area on the front of the helmet, but this one resembles a Digital Crown. Although it has already been stated that there will be a touch place on the front of the headset, it suggests that there may be a “reconfigurable function row for the portable electronic device.” 13, Apple does not use the word” Action Button” nor does it examine this proposal to the Camera Control touch sensitive button on the majority of the iPhone 16 range. Then, one illustration more closely resembles an over-sized Digital Crown than a single button. Despite the description of its position and the hints of its usefulness, it is obvious that this is an Apple Vision Pro Action Button. What isn’t clear, however, is whether this research is focused on developing future headsets or was rejected from the early 2024 edition. Ritu Shah, who has numerous prior patents with Apple in relation to mixed reality headsets, is one of the inventors of this patent. 

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