Users can replace their face with a realistic virtual avatar during FaceTime video calls from their smartwatch!
The presentation of the Apple Vision Pro was able to distinguish itself from similar products thanks to several features. Since then, we’ve been thinking about what we can use in other devices. Apple is already working to provide us with an answer. According to a publication found in Obviously Apple, You can get the realistic avatar feature of Apple Watch Vision Pro.
This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals how A user can capture and record images of their face and hands on the Apple Watch Through sensors and cameras on the back of the device.
Apple Watch Vision Pro may have realistic avatar functionality.
As Apple explains, Apple Vision Pro’s Realistic Avatar feature will allow users to replace their face with a more realistic virtual avatar during FaceTime video calls. The headset’s motion sensors and cameras are responsible for detecting facial features and creating a high-quality avatar that can speak and move in real time.
According to Patently Apple, the Vision Pro or Apple Watch feature is what the user needs first “Record images of your face and hands on Apple Watch with sensors/cameras on the back”. then, The user can join a FaceTime call and be seen by others in the form of a realistic avatar, similar to Vision Pro.
Apple states in its patent that it requires improved methods and electronic devices with interfaces to create and/or display representations of users. Such methods and interfaces may complement or replace conventional methods for creating and/or displaying user representations.
If implemented, this feature will allow Apple Watch users to take advantage of a portion of the Vision Pro experience without spending more than the 3,000 euros it is believed to cost in Spain.
This version of the new Apple Vision Pro avatars provides a more accurate version of users’ faces. And That might be a good enough feature for many to switch from their preferred video calling service to FaceTimeBeing comfortable with Apple.
Despite the demos Apple has shared about the realistic avatar, In the first months of 2024, the first units will go on sale and demonstrate their use in the real world. So, its arrival on the Apple Watch as proposed by this patent could be several years away.
