Apple Vision Pro May Get Eye-Scrolling Support With visionOS 3

Apple is working on a new eye-scrolling feature for its Vision Pro headset, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The new capability is reportedly coming with visionOS 3, the next major update for the Vision Pro software that Apple is expected to reveal at its WWDC conference next week.

The Apple Vision Pro currently lets users navigate the UI by using their eyes to look at something they want to interact with, and there are various hand gestures to select items, show additional options, move windows, scroll quickly, and more. Vision Pro users can also ask Apple’s Siri assistant to open apps.

The report says that eye-scrolling on the Vision Pro will leverage the headset’s eye-tracking hardware. iOS and iPadOS already offer eye-tracking as an accessibility feature, and you may remember that Microsoft also added eye control to Windows 10 back in 2017.

“The eye-scrolling feature will work across all of Apple’s built-in apps on the Vision Pro, which starts at $3,499, and the company is preparing a way for developers to integrate the technology into their own software,” Gurman explained. “Apple continues to add new features to the device — despite it not being a commercial hit — in a bid to show off the product’s underlying capabilities and improve the experience for current users.”

While the Apple Vision Pro is set to receive its second major update with visionOS 3 later this year, Apple’s plans for future devices are quite nebulous at the moment. Gurman believes that a lighter version of the Vision Pro is currently in development alongside a wired version designed to be used with a Mac for apps requiring lower latency. Last week, the reporter also detailed Apple’s work on new smart glasses to compete with the popular Ray-Ban Meta AI models.