APPLE JUST GOT HUMILIATED BY AN $8 JACKET BADGE
A random Japanese maker saw Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro Persona and decided to build the same thing for the price of a pizza.
Same real-time face mirroring.
Same natural expressions and blinks.
Same low latency reaction when you smile.
Apple needed a full headset with M2 chip, R1 processor, 12 cameras and LiDAR.
He did it with one ESP32, a tiny camera and MediaPipe running 468 landmarks on-device.
Total cost: eight dollars.
This is what happens when one weekend hacker destroys a billion-dollar feature in a jacket pin.
The hardware moat just evaporated.
Full system in the video below.