This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers , a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. 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 director. “Before the headset was available to us to take down to Burbank, we used iPhones and iPads,” he recalls. Relying on mobile devices for demos made sense. VisionOS is essentially an iPadOS fork. “It did actually work out. We had a really good experience with iPhone and iPad,” he says.…