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Apple Optic ID: Use Your Eyes to Unlock the Vision Pro

It makes sense that logging into a cutting-edge mixed reality headset would involve your eyeballs.

Designed to be largely hands-free without a traditional keyboard, touchscreen or mouse, Apple’s long-awaited Vision Pro headset is secured with a new authentication system called Optic ID, which uses iris scans to authenticate users.

Speaking at Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote event on Monday, company officials said that this kind of data is always unique, even when you’re talking about identical twins. Just like with Apple’s other biometric identification methods, like the Face ID used on the most recent iPhones, and the Touch ID that preceded it, Optic ID data is encrypted, stored in the device’s secure enclave and never leaves it.

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