Apple’s mixed reality headset reportedly lets you make payments with your eyes

Apple's Face ID has long provided biometric logins for the iPhone. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge

Apple's rumored virtual and augmented reality headset will reportedly use iris scanning tech for logins and payments, according to The Information. The report, which cites two people involved in developing the headset, says the scanning is supposed to make it easier for multiple people to use the headset with their own accounts.

The eye-scanning system echoes iOS tools like Apple's fingerprint or Face ID logins, and it would take advantage of the device's many cameras. It would also help differentiate Apple's offering from its main competitor: the Meta Quest Pro, which the company formerly known as Facebook announced earlier this week. The Quest Pro features inward-facing cameras that can track eye and face motion, but it doesn't (at...

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