from the verge's apple vision pro review
i remain amazed that this is the solution apple decided to go with for video calls, and marques's comment of "really impressive and really bad at the same time" is accurate
the level of eye and face tracking on here is incredible, at least for the few minutes in this review. it's fast and responsive, and i suspect is probably going to be more reliable than your average vrchat facial tracker
unfortunately, all this impressive animation work kind of falls apart when it's applied to a quickly created 3d model trying to be overly realistic and falling somewhere between playstation home and the ability to import your face into tony hawk's underground 2.
if they'd gone with cartoony avatars (like the memoji they already have!) this wouldn't have happened; you could not have people trying to do a hair swoosh and it failing because the hair is just a solid volume
and no third party application can currently use the face/eye tracking as far as i know, so never mind vrchat, if you're going to immerse yourself in the vision pro exclusive version of microsoft fucking teams then even those avatars can't take advantage
(from MKBHD's unboxing)
I've been thinking a lot about travel lately - and for travel, I still use an iPad - even with its limitations, it can still fit in a lot of places larger computers just can't.
My hope is eventually to replace it with something more functional - whether that's a smaller macbook akin to the older "macbook adorable", or a future vision pro device - the software might still be limited in terms of what you can do but at least there'll be very big screens that no one else can see.
But for a "travel case"... well, this takes up a lot of room when bag real estate might be at a premium. If you want to get any writing done, you'd still need a Bluetooth keyboard as well given that typing in the air isn't fun, so that's more space.
And taken in concert with the AirPods Max case and the FineWovenโข debacle... I don't know if Apple really knows how to design functional cases anymore (granted, better for third parties - because the fix here is probably one case for the headset and a separate thing for the accessories, rather than trying to get everything in one place)
I dunno about case size or storage ease ect, but, I'd be hugely terrified if my gadget that cost more than my car came close to leaving my house.
