How to redo the Apple Vision Pro’s hand and eye tracking

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Vector collage showing assorted aspects of the Vision Pro.

Unlike different headsets, you don’t power Apple’s Vision Pro headset with immoderate benignant of input device. Instead, the headset tracks your manus and oculus movements. When you privation to prime something, you simply look astatine it and pat your fingers together. Like Nilay Patel said successful his review, it’s beauteous magical — until it isn’t. And erstwhile manus oregon oculus tracking feels off, the easiest happening to bash is recalibrate it.

There are tons of reasons wherefore you mightiness privation to recalibrate. Perhaps you bought a Vision Pro without the ZEISS optical inserts and decided aboriginal to adhd them. Maybe the medicine for your glasses got updated. Perhaps a person truly wants to effort retired the headset but doesn’t consciousness similar schlepping to the Apple Store. Whatever the reason, present are a fewer ways to redo manus and oculus tracking.

A pistillate makes a pinching motion portion wearing the Vision Pro.

Recalibrating for yourself

If you privation to reset some manus and oculus tracking astatine once, there’s a shortcut:

Put connected the Vision Pro and past find the apical fastener connected the precocious lefthand broadside of the visor.
Press it 4 times.
You’ll beryllium asked to corroborate whether you’re utilizing optical inserts. Turn the integer crown to scroll betwixt options, and property it to select. Follow the prompts.

You’ll beryllium asked to bash 2 things. First, clasp retired and look astatine your hands. Then, look astatine and pat respective dots successful a ellipse astatine assorted brightness settings.

Sometimes, you mightiness not privation to reset some manus and oculus tracking together. The bully quality is you tin besides recalibrate each separately. To bash that:

Go to Settings and scroll to Eyes & Hands.
Select Redo Eye Setup if you lone privation to recalibrate oculus tracking and Redo Hand Setup if you lone privation to reset manus tracking.

If wonky tracking is making it hard to navigate menus, I urge asking Siri instead. You tin accidental “Hey Siri, redo oculus setup / manus setup.” Keep successful caput that you’ll request to person activated Siri during setup for this to work. If you haven’t, I highly suggest utilizing the top-button shortcut truthful you tin get to Settings > Siri & Search > Turn connected Listen for “Hey Siri” oregon “Siri.”

A photograph of a antheral wearing the Vision Pro, taken from the side.

Recalibrating for others

Sharing a Vision Pro isn’t the easiest. The information that it’s truthful personalized to 1 person’s imaginativeness and manus tracking is simply a large crushed why. Who wants to perpetually recalibrate each clip they instrumentality the headset connected oregon off? But if you privation to demo the instrumentality for friends and family, an casual mode to bash it without messing up your ain oculus and manus tracking is by starting a impermanent idiosyncratic session.

Open Control Center by looking up. You should spot a small downward-pointing arrow. Select it.
Tap the Control Center icon, which is the 2nd from the right.
Select the profile icon. It’s the small idiosyncratic wrong a circle.
You’ll beryllium prompted to take which apps they tin usage and whether you privation to alteration presumption mirroring. The second volition let you to spot what a impermanent is doing connected a compatible device.
When you’re ready, pat Start, remove the Vision Pro, and springiness it to your guest. They volition past beryllium prompted to acceptable up oculus and manus tracking for themselves. When they extremity the impermanent idiosyncratic session, it’ll revert to your ain settings.