In a surprise update Tuesday unrelated to the visionOS 1.2 beta that finally arrived, Apple has upgraded everyone’s Apple Vision Pro with Spatial Personas, a new feature made available to anyone running visionOS 1.1. There’s no operating system update required: it’s a server-side switch that Apple turned on yesterday.
To activate a Spatial Persona, you need only start a FaceTime call with another person using Vision Pro. This will place the person inside a window, the same unsatisfactory experience that Vision Pro launched with. However, now you can select the window and choose a new Spatial option to see the other person appear in their Spatial form in your space. (Like Personas in general, this feature is labeled “beta,” and it supports calls of up to five people.)
You’ll see the window disappear, and a full-size version of the other Persona in front of you. It’s just the front and sizes of their head and shoulders, together with their disembodied hands, but the hands go wherever their hands move about their body.
Read more at Macworld.com
