In depth interview on Environments

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Crafting the Cosmos: The Design Behind Apple Vision Pro’s Environments - COOL HUNTING®

There is a particular quality of stillness that descends when you put on an Apple Vision Pro and find yourself at the edge of a mountain lake—not in a room anymore, but not quite elsewhere either. …

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COOL HUNTING conducted an interview over holographic video call using spatial personas and FaceTime. They wrote about what the human interface team revealed on the length they went in order to recreate places accessible and inaccessible in their Environments feature. It is very Apple, just like the Apple TV logo intro, just like their TV ads, just like Apple Watch faces, just like wallpapers, and everything else. They are a group of people that care deeply about creating great products and is a testament to the care of craft to do achieve things no one else has

[The] sense of presence announced itself immediately during the interview itself, which was conducted entirely over FaceTime within Vision Pro. Sitting across from Apple’s team in a shared virtual space, the spatial Personas were striking—not as approximations of people, but as genuinely emotive representations, detailed enough to sustain the social rhythms of the conversation. The feeling of occupying the same room, of reading a slight shift in expression or the weight of a pause, was less a novelty than a quiet confirmation that something meaningful has changed in how we understand shared virtual space.