Should we bid farewell to the cartoonish avatars of Meta and welcome the realistic avatars ofApple ? Well, not quitebecause if they have one thing in common, it is that both are scary, but not for the same reasons! The first for their incredible uglyness, and the second for their awkward side. Being far from current standards or being close to reality but without being completely so, here is the dilemma currently before our eyes. There update visionOS 1.1 ofApple will it significantly improve the situation?
For those who have not followed the news of the last helmet space computerAppleknow thatit is possible, by holding the VisionProto scan his face and thus create his digital double, whose eyes are displayed on the front (Eyesight) of the helmet. Baptized Personathis replica surprised many testers. If seeing the user’s eyes is a really nice find, one that allows us to avoid the “isolating” side of virtual reality, the result here is disturbing.
The copy is approximate, the face is smoothed and everything that makes up your personality seems to have been erased, thus creating a soulless replica, the exact opposite of the intended goal.
Of course, the simpler the face, the better the result will be. The firm of Cupertino therefore chose, for its promotional videos, to keep a casting quite restricted, of those who fortunately had a persona qualitative enough to convince and appear more easily on the screen.
Some influencers and developers have taken to filming themselves before and after the update, here is the rendering (left: before the update; in the center: real shot; right: after the update).
In the first series of images, we can see a clear improvement. Even though the color and homogenization of the eyes are noticeable, the result is quite convincing. On the second, however, it would seem that theApple Vision Pro experiences more difficulties, and for good reason, many details have to be dealt with. Thus, the mustaches are not cut in the same way, the hairstyle has been simplified, the beard has been reduced, the face has been homogenized as a whole and gives the impression of being in front of an AI. The last series of photos, for its part, is clearly not to the advantage of the person, “a real winner’s face” will say the most mocking. Yes, its persona clearly makes her look like an idiot, while in real-life shooting, this same person seems to exude good-naturedness without falling into profound naivety.
There is indeed a nice evolution, but no revolution yet. We hope that future updates of visionOS will better take into account the roughness and other imperfections of faces, which remain and will always remain the founding elements of our humanity.
Speaking of upgrading,The brand with the bitten apple would prepare a persona complete, which would no longer be limited to the face, but would be displayed through a complete bodywhich would give a completely different flavor to the experiences to come!