My Virtual Avatar No Longer Looks Terrible in the Apple Vision Pro

Remember Apple's Vision Pro? That's the $3,499 mixed reality headset the company launched early in 2024 that failed to garner much public interest. Apple has steamed ahead with updates for the platform over the past year, and soon there will be a new version upgrade: visionOS 26. (Apple announced at WWDC it was changing the way it named its operating systems to match the following year.)

I got a chance to try out a few of the new capabilities, but two stuck out to me more than the others. First is the upgrade to Personas. That's the spatial avatar the headset creates based on your likeness using the onboard cameras (you have to point the headset at your head and run through a setup process to create a Persona). Last year, the first thing I heard when I joined Zoom meetings wearing the ...