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Apple unveiled the first iOS 15 features on Wednesday, new accessibility features that should make its products even easier to interact with than before. The new accessibility features would have easily been a great segment in the upcoming WWDC 2021 keynote’s iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 presentation. But Apple wanted to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 20th) with this announcement.
Among the various new accessibility features that Apple unveiled the other day, there’s a new AssistiveTouch functionality for Apple Watch. The wearable will use data from sensors like the gyroscope, accelerometer, and heart rate sensor, combined with on-device machine learning to translate hand gestures into actions on the screen. The feature is meant to allow people with limited mobility who can’t touch the Watch display to interact with the device. But this “mind-reading” feature might be a lot bigger than accessibility for Apple. It sounds a lot like the sci-fi tech Facebook has recently demoed for interacting with smart devices like virtual reality (VR) headsets.
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