After working on the Vision Pro, this AR veteran is going back to phones
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When Mark Drummond was working on the Vision Pro at Apple, he had a bit of an epiphany that didn't really fit Cupertino's preferred narrative.
Drummond was managing the Character Intelligence Team, which among other things built the Encounter Dinosaurs demo. Preinstalled on the Vision Pro, the demo puts viewers eye to eye with interactive prehistoric creatures.
"We built that with Jon Favreau," Drummond says, referring to Apple's long-standing partnership with the Mandalorian …