Meta announced a sophisticated Quest Pro VR headset that can track your eyes and face, but people worry it might steal your feelings.
$1,500 Quest Pro virtual reality headset. The headset has a few advanced features on board, including five cameras facing inward, towards the user’s face. The cameras can track eye movements and facial expressions. Such features aim to create digital avatars for the VR world that can mimic human expression with incredible accuracy. It’s not just Facebook that’s working on this technology. Apple’s future mixed reality headset will also reportedly feature eye-tracking cameras.
As it stands, the new Meta VR headset does not collect face-tracking information. It doesn’t steal your reactions to what you experience on the headset. The feature is turned off by default. Moreover, Meta told journalists last week that the VR headset will not use face-tracking information to predict emotions.
There’s no question that the successful metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg wants will need avatars that can replicate human movement and facial expression with excellent fidelity. But the same technology could provide real-time insights into how a user feels about a specific product. And some companies might monetize those feelings in the future. Meta included.
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