When Jeffrey Fowler entered the Zoom last week, he looked freaky.

You are not looking at me.

You are looking at my persona, capital P.

And that is the slightly terrifying virtual avatar that Apple creates of people who are wearing

the Vision Pro to give you a presence in things like FaceTime calls and

Zoom chats.

Jeffrey is a tech columnist at the Washington Post and he showed up to our interview

wearing Apple's latest product, a face computer called The Vision Pro.

These are basically very expensive and very heavy digital goggles.

I couldn't actually see Jeffrey's goggles on Zoom though.

Instead, he looked like a bit of a cartoon character, maybe 80% real.

Think Tom Hanks in the Polar Express.

His hands floated in the frame without being connected to arms,

like in a Nintendo Wii game.

So what it did is I held the front of the Vision Pro up to my face for a minute and looked around

and it made this 3D map of my features and then once I put the Vision Pro back on

it's using all of this cameras to track when I move my eyebrows and my mouth and my nose to recreate a virtual version of me for this call.

And also I would just like to say for the record I do not actually look like a 70s

porn star which is what this system makes me kind of look like I tried face timing

with my two-year-old yesterday, where he saw this

avatar of me, and he yelled and ran away. The Vision Pro was released earlier this month,

and since then, the internet has been flooded with photos and videos of people,

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