The Apple Vision Pro has a weakness: the avatars do not do justice to a $3,499 product

The launch of the apple Vision Pro mixed reality glasses in the United States has generated a wave of videos that have gone viral on social networks. The starting price is $3,499, they are compatible with more than 600 applications and have the collaboration of 5,000 technological patents that shape this device.

Apple is working on new avatars and the truth is that they increasingly resemble real people. The brand has launched version visionOS 1.1, a new update for Apple Vision Pro thanks to which these avatars or “People” can be improvedas Apple likes to call them.

Apple avatars are in beta phase

This feature is only available to beta users, so Apple is working on improving the Vision Pro interface for the final version. We will still have to wait for it to reach all users, but many have already shown in X how the aesthetics of these Personas have changed in the latest version.

Users have had to rescan their face, even if they already had an avatar. The result is now much more realistic than in the previous update. YouTuber Quinn Nelson has shared the result of her Persona before and after visionOS 1.1. “I look like Stalin,” he wrote in a post on X.

This improvement has more defined features and a more realistic skin tone. No one was surprised that Tim Cook’s company was working on the avatars of the Apple Vision Pro from the first minute. All the analyzes criticized this as one of the device’s greatest weaknesses, The result is not even close to a $3,499 product..

Nilay Patel, journalist for The Vergehas expressed that Apple People are “weird and extremely disturbing”other critics have assured that the result can keep you awake or that Apple has gotten out of hand with Botox, he says. Business Insider. Journalist Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal He has also shown his Avatar in X, without much more success.

Apple Vision Pro Personas seem to be one of the features of the future. The brand promises that these avatars can be used in FaceTime, but the result is not expected to be too good in the next updates, the faces will still be somewhat strange and unrealistic.

Apple has restricted this option for users who have a developer profile, since It is only available for beta version. The company still has a lot to improve on the faces of the avatars, for now users can only wait for this update to reach everyone.