Over the past week I’ve been showing people what the Apple Vision Pro can do here in our New York office, at home and even on TV, and the general reactions have been mostly positive. As I’ve demoed the eye- and hand-tracking interface, the immersive environments and first wave of Vision Pro apps, I’ve heard things like “Wow!” and “That was the coolest demo I’ve ever seen.”
But there’s an aspect to the Vision Pro that is downright creepy. And the reactions to it have been far less positive. Like, "That's ridiculous." "You look stupid." and "It looks like you've been put through an old age filter." I’m talking about Persona, which is essentially a 3D avatar of you that can appear in FaceTime calls as well as Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams apps.
