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The Vision Pro uses 3D avatars on calls and for streaming. These researchers used eye tracking to work out the passwords and PINs people typed with their avatars.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240912100207/https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vision-pro-persona-eye-tracking-spy-typing/
Sounds like you could do this to a person in a normal zoom call with no headset.
Most people don’t look while typing, especially things with muscle memory like passwords, when using a physical keyboard. And a zoom call doesn’t convey facial data in three dimensions. The unique nature of the virtual keyboard, plus the three dimensional avatar, makes this new attack more feasible.