Gloomy_Narwhal_719: I’ve been wanting to post my insane conspiracy theory, this is the perfect chance:
That bright flash as you boot the headset? It’s on purpose. You can’t tell me they don’t have some sort of sensor that takes a “snapshot” of the person in the headset. Maybe just to see if it’s an old user vs new, whatever, but I FULLY believe it’s transferring some sort of sensor data “home” that has a “bit” of facial recognition.
Lujho: I can tell you that. There’s no user facing camera in the headset. If you want to go through the ifixit teardown video and show us where such a camera is, feel free.
KTTalksTech: You can literally take the headset apart and check whether there are any cameras or weird senors in there 🤦🏻♂️ it’s not some magic black box. Also getting repeat photos of your face at every start-up seems like useless information…
There is a Quest model with more than a proximity sensor in it, the quest pro has cameras aimed directly at your pupils to know what you’re looking at. The apple vision pro has a fancier version of that same setup that lets it track some facial movement as well to reproduce it on an avatar for that hideous outside screen.
Gloomy_Narwhal_719: I’ve been wanting to post my insane conspiracy theory, this is the perfect chance:
That bright flash as you boot the headset? It’s on purpose. You can’t tell me they don’t have some sort of sensor that takes a “snapshot” of the person in the headset. Maybe just to see if it’s an old user vs new, whatever, but I FULLY believe it’s transferring some sort of sensor data “home” that has a “bit” of facial recognition.
Lujho: I can tell you that. There’s no user facing camera in the headset. If you want to go through the ifixit teardown video and show us where such a camera is, feel free.
hawklost: Obviously they knew ifixit would tear one down and made sure that the people got one without a camera! /s
KTTalksTech: You can literally take the headset apart and check whether there are any cameras or weird senors in there 🤦🏻♂️ it’s not some magic black box. Also getting repeat photos of your face at every start-up seems like useless information…
There is a Quest model with more than a proximity sensor in it, the quest pro has cameras aimed directly at your pupils to know what you’re looking at. The apple vision pro has a fancier version of that same setup that lets it track some facial movement as well to reproduce it on an avatar for that hideous outside screen.
No-Instruction9393: I think you want this sub: r/tinfoilhat