Apple’s “Persona” in Vision Pro is the most Likelife real-time avatar you can find on a headset today, but with the next version of Visionos, they take another step.
Apple today announced that Vision Pro Persona Avatar will receive a major visual upgrade with the launch of the Visionos 26, scheduled for later this year.
Vision Pro personas are generated on-device after the user performs a short scan of the face using the headset. Once generated, the avatar is used for social experiences like FaceTime.
Currently, they are the most realistic real-time avatars available in today’s headsets. They are impressively capturing subtle movements from users, but they always feel a bit blurry or ghostly.
Visionos 26 promises a large visual update that significantly reduces its ghostly appearance and presents a more complete view of the user’s head, including a “full-side profile view.” Apple also promises more realistic hair and lashes, and over 1,000 glasses variations, so glasses lessons can just find what looks right.
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Visionos 26 will be available as a developer beta from today, but it is not yet clear whether Persona upgrades will be available in the first version or later in the beta version.
Beyond a visual upgrade to persona, Visionos 26 improves how social experience works with headsets. New developer tools allow you to create co-driven virtual experiences. This means that two headset users in the same physical space can see a shared virtual experience that is visually fixed in the same space for both. That same system allows remote participants to participate as persona avatars, with a mix of face-to-face headset users and remote participants with the same virtual experience.
