For several months, my slack avatar was the screenshot of my incredibly cursed vision Pro personality. The head of my virtual avatar was the back cock, in the pixelated void, her hair a solid precious block. It was not good – but it was not even the end of the world. Everyone else’s personality seemed terrible and honest, it was fun. So I was in doubt, when in WWDC Keenote, Apple announced that Visionos 26 had improved the floating avatar of the system.
And then I got to make one.
The process of creating personality has not changed, but the final result has improved significantly. (Complete disclosure: The video you watched above was recorded by Apple and was provided to me after my demo.) It does not completely erase unnaturally – the lower half of your face is still more expressive than the top, it finds my nose a bit strange in some angles, and some microxprases feel rigid. But hair now looks like hair. You can see the eyelids and skin textures. It was also capable of catching my nose contour makeup.
Side profiles have also been improved – something that I saw in a facetime with my old weekend editor Wes Davis, a fellow Vision Pro owner, who also downloaded the Visionos 26 bet. First, if you turn your head edge, you can look flattened, a playstation 2 era, something for non-cut scene video game character.
Now it is easy to turn your personality. If you are a glasses wearing, you can customize light, skin tone and granular with iwear.
However, the biggest thing for me is that when I laugh and my eyes rise up, I no longer looks like my own caricature. After spending a few weeks of time to experiment with AI image and video generations, I have been subjected to several democratic renders of my monolids. You may not know if you are not Asians, but monolids are not considered the same desirable feature under traditional western and eastern beauty standards. I accept that the fact that they are often presented, this is the first world problem. Nevertheless, it may hurt when blepharoplasty is an incredibly common process in my community to shape the eyelids again. It may look like a trivial thing to fix, but if the future is really to live inside the headset – I want my virtual self really look like me.
In my brief hands, I also realized that in Visionos 26, the person is also better to capture different types of expressions. I know that average person Not there. Taking a nap, creating a foolish face, or objectively reversed their face such as they were a Disney cartoon. But, if you Are That type of person, I could say that I was impressed by how much better the new personality system is to handle my facial gymnastics. (I wish, Wes’s new personality still has a strange strange mustache.)
But for my yaming, you can do justice for yourself for yourself in the video above your old personality, which I have included below.
I found some other demos in my hands. I prepared myself for a virtual moon of Jupiter. I saw some examples of spatial videos taken on action cam. Apple is still convinced that we also want all better spatial photos. But apart from personality, I was pleasantly surprised by the second demo. I stand corrected. In our Liveblog, I made fun of a virtual wall clock. However, after experiencing a demo, I can see the appeal of a permanent-permanent editorial wall panel, where I can hang a digital album art, a reminder app interface, and may make my own smart home control hub again. This ideological purchase-in requires that this type of virtual spaces are a meaningful effort, but if you are already on the ship? Trust me, you will like the widget.
