When designing for Apple Vision Pro, one of the immediate challenges with a social feed UI is the reactions buttons. They have to be large enough for eye tracking per guidelines so showing them in each note is not really an option.

One idea would be to slide them out on note hover, but that would mean having to look around up and down often which could strain the eyes. The feed tends to be tall and could potentially require a lot of up / down gazing which may tire people.

I’m still unsure of how to handle. 🤔

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Or I could show them in notes but not show as many notes in one window 🤔

perhaps have top-level notes in a horizontal feed, replies unfold below, and reactions appear above on pause/hover?

Hmm horizontal is not a common pattern to browse. But, there is an intention state where if you hover for an extended duration beyond a typical gaze, it could recommend the reaction menu right over the note 🤔

Extremely crude mockup of design idea incoming...

Yeah I got that from the previous note 🙌 Ty

This does feel like it would save time reading responses but I’m still hesitant on horizontal scrolling. There’s no frequent usage of horizontal scrolling current so may not feel intuitive.

But, could try and see how it feels regardless!

UI/UX is gonna have to be entirely rethought for these kind of devices...

The human field of vision would tend to make horizontal browsing more natural/comfortable I'd think...

Say "nice" to like, "zap it" to zap.

Wrinkle your forehead to dislike.

Raise eye-brow twice to zap.

It'd be more fun to use finger guns to zap ⚡

The reviews I have seen so far (1) praise the speed an accuracy to focus even the tiniest elements. I don't think you have to worry about this. Given this product will only be available next year, I'd call any efforts now premature optimizations.