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Future AirPods could get lasers to read the wearer's lips & process requests
Apple is researching how AirPods could use sensors like the ones used in Face ID to read the user's lips and process what the user wants, even if there isn't a spoken request.
Apple has been looking into the idea of AirPods detecting gestures for more than five years, including how such detectors could learn a user's unique movements. Currently AirPods Pro support a silence nod or shake of the head to accept or reject phone calls, but they could be set to interpret a mouth movement as meaning "skip track." Right now, headphones and devices like the Apple Watch will detect a user's voice or they will respond to the press of a real or virtual button.
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