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Apple’s Vision Pro Personas: Could Our Virtual Selves Exist on iPhones? | All Things Mobile

The 3D technology that makes Vision Pro Personas feel realistic is too good to limit to a $3,500 headset. Read more about the Vision Pro’s Personas on CNET.com Apple Vision Pro’s Best Feature Is an Incredibly Realistic Avatar of You 0:00 Apple Vision Pro 0:45 Spatial in 2020 1:15 Apple Personas 1:50 Gaussian Splatting 2:05…

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The 3D technology that makes Vision Pro Personas feel realistic is too good to limit to a $3,500 headset.

Read more about the Vision Pro’s Personas on CNET.com
Apple Vision Pro’s Best Feature Is an Incredibly Realistic Avatar of You

0:00 Apple Vision Pro
0:45 Spatial in 2020
1:15 Apple Personas
1:50 Gaussian Splatting
2:05 Meta Hyperscape
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  1. @Jayden-lr2mm

    November 3, 2025 at 8:02 am

    The Galaxy XR’s one is great as well

    • @eon5323

      November 3, 2025 at 8:34 am

      Eh.. at lot more cartoony. Apples just put more hours into it. Metas codec avatars are still best in class.

    • @incredibilistic

      November 3, 2025 at 10:07 am

      Based on what I’ve seen they look like the Xbox 360 avatars and super janky. One of the videos I saw had horrible stutter and couldn’t keep pace with the user’s hands and kept clipping into itself.

      No doubt Samsung and Google engineers are working hard to replicate Personas but right now Apple has a huge head start.

    • @fmax3000

      November 3, 2025 at 11:34 am

      XR who?!

  2. @borborkontri4837

    November 3, 2025 at 8:09 am

    Avp is alien vs predator.
    Not whatever this is

  3. @MrMittens01

    November 3, 2025 at 8:50 am

    If they can scan rooms on the oculus quest using the same technique and technology, we should be able to scan our faces and have better avatars on there. They copied AVPs UI…they should have no problems copying and make similar avatars.

    • @markbrown5298

      November 3, 2025 at 9:25 am

      You are completely dreaming Apple technology is just miles ahead of Meta it’s why they are trying to copy Apple interface now. Meta quest is like a Camry great family affordable car not BMW ever! I have a Apple Vision Pro it’s a reason it’s $3500 not $500!

    • @aleksei5195

      November 3, 2025 at 10:12 am

      Meta has been developing hyper-realistic avatars called ‘Codec Avatar’ for years, and they are ultra high quality in every single detail.
      The problem is they made the bar too high, it’s kinda hard to optimize properly. They even have proper hair/cloth physics and very interchangeable, which current Apple Persona falls weak. Apple’s Persona kinda blurs out where they aren’t confident enough, and their hair is just a blob.

    • @fmax3000

      November 3, 2025 at 11:30 am

      ⁠@aleksei5195Dreams don’t matter until they become real. What we have now is the reality. AVP is miles away and that’s so evident when meta went on a copying spree since AVP first announced. The processor, the amount of sensors and cameras, the 4K glasses, and the tech behind AVP is years ahead of the commercial staggering Meta’s.
      If what you’re saying is true, then by the time they’re ready to show it, Apple will probably have holograms on the floor.
      Meta bought the oculus which was the best and ruined it, just like anything else they acquire.
      I deleted WhatsApp when bought it and now people reporting facebooks ads matching their WhatsApp chats, and friends suggestions matching WhatsApp friends!
      Good luck trusting a scammer like zuc and a company built on harvesting people’s data for sales, and spying.

    • @MrMittens01

      November 3, 2025 at 4:08 pm

      @aleksei5195after posting this, I googled it and saw that meta is also doing full body avatars and the article was recent.

    • @MrMittens01

      November 3, 2025 at 4:13 pm

      ⁠@markbrown5298I don’t think it’s a dream, they are definitely working on it. Full body avatars. I’m not denying that Apple is superior. I’m just saying that metas devices could make something similar. Not everyone can afford a $3,500 device, at least meta is trying to get more people to experience what these devices are capable of by pushing boundaries and making things affordable. The best technology means nothing if it doesn’t get mass adoption.

  4. @MastermindJP

    November 3, 2025 at 8:52 am

    Is freaking real man

  5. @Aragorn7884

    November 3, 2025 at 9:28 am

    A solution to an non-existent problem 🤷

    • @lilmichael212

      November 3, 2025 at 9:43 am

      Ppl really have to try it. I cried the first time I saw my friends persona standing in my room.

      There’s NOTHING a video can do to get you to understand the feeling of presence when you’re miles apart.

      It’s far beyond FaceTime, in the same way FaceTime is a little better than just a regular phone call. Except this is 100x better. It almost feels like teleportation.

    • @Aragorn7884

      November 3, 2025 at 9:44 am

      ​@lilmichael212the eventual Rule 34? Lolz 😅

    • @bass-tones

      November 3, 2025 at 1:50 pm

      How is this a nonexistent problem? The obvious problem being solved for here is that, previously / traditionally, you couldn’t do video calls while wearing an AR headset.

  6. @sharonb.9128

    November 3, 2025 at 10:12 am

    Great video. I was one of the rare ones who liked the first personas. I had only seen the cartoon avatars from the major gaming headsets before Apple released theirs. I prefer Apple’s personas to the cartoon which is fine for gaming but not anything else imo.

  7. @zero11010

    November 3, 2025 at 10:56 am

    …. For the 9 people out there that have the Apple Vision headset.

    • @MarcusWarcus40

      November 3, 2025 at 12:26 pm

      The number was 500,000 people last year. And that was last year. Now we’ve had some huge updates adding new features and they refreshed it with a new head strap and m5 processor. I think it’s doing well for what it is

    • @zero11010

      November 3, 2025 at 1:18 pm

      @MarcusWarcus40 the number isn’t 500,000 from 2024. The number was “UNDER 500,000” in 2024.

      I’ve got google, too. 😉

      Estimates seem to be roughly 400k.

      And, try to guess what percentage was returned.

      From what I can tell they were getting returned at a REALLY high rate.

      Stuff like this is like the cyber truck. The people who want it buy it the second it comes out. People who have $4,000 for a tablet you wear on your face want it when it’s new and exciting … not a year or two later.

      And now people know these things suck. They can’t really be used for work. They can’t be using for much gaming. They are GREAT for watching about an hour of TV. They have short battery life and they’re super uncomfortable if you try to wear them more than an hour.

      THAT is what this is.

    • @zero11010

      November 3, 2025 at 3:05 pm

      @MarcusWarcus40 you’re misquoting the numbers. And, THEN you have to think about the sky high return rates.

  8. @VisionCommunications

    November 3, 2025 at 12:55 pm

    Nice video! 
    Let me say, if anyone want to communicate with me using a persona/avatar of themselves, I’ll go with a still photo of myself. For me, it is disrespectful to expect me to prep for live camera, only to send a representation of themselves. Just sayin’

  9. @pumpuppthevolume

    November 3, 2025 at 3:12 pm

    is that his wife

  10. @arnavsingh8345

    November 3, 2025 at 4:01 pm

    I’ll be honest, this is leaps and bounds better than earlier versions of virtual personas. It might seem niche right now, but it’s genuinely category-defining in virtual communication. If it’s lightweight and easy to adopt, it could be incredibly valuable for remote work and for consuming virtual media with friends.

    This might actually be the Vision Pro’s killer use case – bringing people together, virtually, all the time. Most AI and SaaS innovations ride on hype and speculative futures, but this feels like something that could really be useful once the form factor matures. Maybe not in 5, but in 10–20 years, it could be huge.

    Imagine streaming Netflix with your friends or family across the world, it’s like having everyone in the same theater or playground. And with AI, the possibilities just get more interesting (though pretty useless right now for most audiences). Long comment, but yeah this is pretty cool. Cheers.

  11. @RickOShay

    November 3, 2025 at 4:01 pm

    Let’s talk about why Apple is five years behind in AI. Five years in AI that’s a lifetime time.

  12. @JimmyGunawanX

    November 3, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    Need fullbody gaussian splat persona. Brian Tong mention about fashion and clothing changes. I think we also need Avatars.

  13. @LBMust

    November 3, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    I think that you need to do your persona again, because it looks a little bit off. Mine looks much sharper and nicer than yours

  14. @nuyou21

    November 3, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    I tried on the new Vision Pro earlier today and I thought it was absolutely mind blowing.

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      not going to happen

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  39. @hankuk777

    November 4, 2025 at 3:23 am

    It still feels like a ghost. Interesting, but how useful it will be…

  40. @saumendudutta7886

    November 4, 2025 at 4:51 am

    Pseudo Feminism is the Cancer of the society and only promoting women and insulting men is a kind of Pseudo Feminism that everyone should keep in their mind.

  41. @CNET

    November 4, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    Read more about the Vision Pro’s Personas on CNET.com: Apple Vision Pro’s Best Feature Is an Incredibly Realistic Avatar of You

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