Project 04 · visionOS · ARKit
Pick up your AirPods case and your music controls are right there. Apple Vision Pro recognizes the case and puts play, pause and skip on it. No window to find, nothing to open.
01The idea
When you’re listening on AirPods, the case is often already in your hand. So why go looking for a window to skip a song? With Vision Pro, the case itself can be the remote.
02How it works
03Decisions
The point is speed. Every choice was about making the most common actions take the least effort.
Decision 01
Most of the time you just want to see what’s playing or skip. The closed case does exactly that. Opening it is a natural “I want more,” so that’s when the full controls show up. I trained two reference objects, one open and one closed, so Vision Pro can tell them apart.
Decision 02
Left and right felt like the obvious gesture. But rolling the case sideways barely changes its outline from where you’re standing, so Vision Pro couldn’t reliably tell it had moved. Forward and back it reads every time.
Decision 03
A skip fires at just 8 degrees, so a quick flick of the wrist does it. An arrow starts to appear on the album art before that, so you can see a skip coming. It won’t fire again until you bring the case back to level.
04Next
[What you’d try next: volume, play/pause without opening, other Apple devices.]
Your music controls, right in your hand.