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Holonautic co-founder and developer Dennys Kuhnert says he is “both disappointed and impressed” by the Vision Pro’s performance and showed off this comparison of the two headsets with a real-time visualization tool.

In this interview for the Voices of VR podcast, Apollo developer Christian Selig shares his experience creating Juno, an unofficial YouTube player he created for the Vision Pro in only a week’s time.

I keep a pretty bushy mustache, and it seems to prevent the headset’s downward-facing cameras from seeing and translating what my mouth is doing to my Persona’s real-time expressions during a Vision Pro FaceTime call. Apparently, I’m not alone.

While many people are excitedly entering Apple’s spatial computing future, some Vision Pro early adopters have already packed the devices up and sent them back for a refund. Reasons we’ve heard include eye fatigue, few useful apps available so far, and a lack of window / workspace persistence.

XR designer Greg Madison has created this chrome ball as a fun way to visualize how Apple’s headset can reflect lighting in augmented reality based on your real environment.

Assuming you’re going to keep your Vision Pro headset for a while, Apple has highlighted some of the spatial games already available that are optimized for its headset’s eye, hand, and voice controls.

Valve Prism: the standalone Valve VR headset we’ve been waiting for? This convincing-at-first-glance site shows a chunky, heavy (850 grams!) headset with Vision Pro-caliber Micro OLED displays and claims of untethered PC-like graphics performance.

If you get the USB-C-having developer strap for the Apple Vision Pro, you get more than the swole Lightning-esque connectors the headset already has, according to 9to5Mac.

So Mark Gurman wrote in the subscriber version of his Bloomberg Power On newsletter today. Not that we should expect any different. The iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch all get their big updates at about the same time.

Some members of the Vision Pro team inside Apple think that, like the iPhone and Apple Watch before it, the headset won’t hit its stride until its fourth iteration, according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg.

After announcing in December that it had deprecated Windows Mixed Reality, Microsoft has released a new Insider Preview Build (26052) without the feature.

Last year, Brilliant Labs brought AI to your existing eyewear with its $299 Monocle clip-on, and now it’s announced the Frame AI glasses, an open-source, hackable micro Python-based platform with a micro OLED display, front-facing camera, and more.

In addition to our detailed review, The Verge video team brought in Vox Media employees from different areas of the company to experience the Apple Vision Pro for the very first time.

MacRumors reports that Apple’s 3D face scans have been updated after the latest visionOS 1.1 developer update. The feature is still labelled as a “Beta,” but the update prompts users to recapture their Persona for “the latest appearance updates.”

This is clearly the worst way to play a Game Boy Advance game in VR, but I think the excellent passthrough video of the Vision Pro could make for some very cool nostalgic emulation.

Apple’s motion sickness support page tells you how to minimize possible nausea and other symptoms while using the Vision Pro. The company even offers a little label to tell you when an app or “Apple Immersive Media” has “larger amounts of motion.”

Is a glassy tech product launch complete without a destructive JerryRigEverything video?

Apple doesn’t seem to have posted this ad in any of the usual channels — one X user says they spotted it on Snapchat.

iFixit’s Charlie Sorrel wrote up a deeper dive blog to complement the teardown video the repair experts published yesterday. This is the most detailed photography of the Vision Pro’s bits and bobs we’ve seen online so far.

Of course there are plenty of videos circulating showing people “using” Apple’s headset while driving and walking — it’s an easy bit to snag views with!

Although the unboxing and “what it’s like” videos aren’t really reviews, Brownlee’s latest video — the actual review — is more of a closing chapter of a trilogy chronicling his thoughts on Apple’s very fancy headset.

Portrait mode images aren’t 3D — iPhones use depth mapping to determine where everything is in space, then they use machine learning to apply simulated bokeh (that is, the blur that optical lenses give you when focusing on a subject).

Honestly? Apart from leftover residue, not bad, from the look of it in this pic shared by iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens.

9to5Mac pointed out the caveat in a new support page Apple published yesterday. The company lists the Magic Trackpad as supported, but makes no mention of the Magic Mouse, so presumably that’s lumped in with Bluetooth mice.

Sam Kohl of Apple Track tweeted a picture of a cracked Vision Pro soon after west coast Apple Stores opened, and now you can see how it got that way.

When I saw how the app Shortcut Buttons lets you put virtual buttons around your home to trigger smart home devices using Apple’s Vision Pro, I was (almost) sold.

Our review of Apple’s Vision Pro included an...interesting avatar call with Wall Street Journal tech reporter (and Verge alum) Joanna Stern, whose review you can watch and/or read right here.