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With the Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas, you can be lonely with friends

They’re all Spatial Personas, laughing, too.

I was one of those people who got really into Animal Crossing, visiting friends’ islands for that 600 bell turnip price, screaming and kicking our feet while gossiping over voice chat. I did my damnedest to convert Wes to K-pop with Stray Kids’ excellent “Back Door,” “Thunderous,” and “Case 143” music videos. What you don’t see are all the awkward pauses when Wes and I had to troubleshoot and figure out why something wasn’t working — things that are harder when you have a headset on, and for whatever reason, that day, the Vision Pro was having trouble with eye tracking.

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