When I saw Meta’s VR glasses, I was ready to draw the most obvious parallel: Xreal and Google’s Aura. Both are a pair of glasses with XR passthrough; both are tethered to a compute puck; both offer a similar mix of entertainment and productivity. But when I actually tried them, I realized it was missing another, more unexpected, comparison—the Vision Pro.

Not only do Meta VR Glasses have the same input method as the Vision Pro (a mix of hand and eye tracking) and a similar premium display (5K micro OLED), but Meta VR Glasses are also trying to steal the thunder from one of the Vision Pro’s most iconic features—Personas, aka digital avatars…

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