The app was designed by Phil Traut, an iOS and visionOS designer behind chocolift<\/a>, a\u00a0launcher app that lets you open Mac apps with your iPhone.<\/p>\n AuraTap is slated to launch exclusively on Vision Pro on March 27th. You\u2019ll find it over on the App Store then, with pre-orders coming sometime before launch.<\/p>\n My Take<\/p>\n AuraTap is an interesting idea, mashing up things like Chat Roulette, speed dating, and a healthy slice of tech bro mixer culture. Notably, the studio bills it as \u201cthe future of networking.\u201d And to me, this concept could only really work on Vision Pro.<\/p>\n While Personas are extremely lifelike, they also give users an insulating level of abstraction from strangers\u2014something you don\u2019t really get when truly face-to-face on a video call. Almost like wearing an idealized mask, Personas let you capture yourself when you\u2019re at your freshest, most awake, and totally not fighting back a cowlick since you just rolled out of bed.<\/p>\n The requirement to scan a physical face also makes it difficult to spoof Personas, which is something hardly any social network can claim right now.<\/p>\n Granted, someone could\u00a0technically scan someone else\u2019s face and use the headset, although there\u2019s no practical way to then scale that idea and create a network of scammers since Personas are stored on the device itself and can\u2019t be imported or exported as a sharable file.<\/p>\n The biggest problem though is making sure there are actually enough Vision Pro users online at one time to make the app useful. Much like the early days of multiplayer VR games, populating servers\u2014or in this case, a contact list with online users\u2014requires a constant inflow to benefit from the network effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n I wish AuraTap well, because it might just be the right thing for Vision Pro-owning business types looking for the next digital mixer. That said, the studio certainly has its work cut out for it if they want it to become an indispensable companion app to Vision Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AuraTap is an upcoming social network for Vision Pro users, which hopes to get members forming genuine connections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49,48,61,260,261,262],"class_list":{"0":"post-560583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-virtualreality","13":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/auratap-menu.jpg\")
<\/a>Image courtesy AuraTap<\/p>\n