Apple Vision Pro Spatial Personas Hands-On: A Step-Change For Telepresence

Apple’s Spatial Personas immediately change what it means to connect with someone else through virtual reality.

James O’Loughlin and I high fived within seconds of sharing a space together for the first time. We opened Apple’s Freeform whiteboarding app and started putting together a list of movies we want to watch in VR. Though we’d connected previously over FaceTime, this was the first time I actually felt like we were sharing the same space in VR.

FaceTime calls still start as flat avatars in a window, but if you press the Spatial Personas button they’ll emerge from the window like General Zod and his friends popping out of the Phantom Zone.