Mark Zuckerberg takes aim at Apple's new headset - The Times

A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product’s launch in New York this month

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In an unusually blunt intervention, even in the cut-throat world of high-tech, Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta Platforms, has taken a personal swipe at Apple’s rival new mixed-reality headset.

Apple’s Vision Pro made headlines this month as celebrities including Casey Neistat, a YouTube personality, and T-Pain, a singer and songwriter, wore it in public, with the “passthrough” feature allowing them to see their surroundings while using it.

Passthrough is used in most recent mixed-reality headsets and allows people to see beyond the screen strapped to their head. It uses cameras on the outside of the headset to give users a live, high-definition video feed of their surroundings so that they can wear a headset while walking or exercising.

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