Comment by pests

3 years ago

The YouTube stream I watched mentioned it can detect when you are looking at your Mac and offer the screen up in the googles with full sizing and layout control. Your Mac appears just as another app and you can multitask as ususal.

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warning26  3 years ago

Yup -- I was a bit disappointed that it can only simulate a single monitor, but I guess since it's working wirelessly there's bandwidth limitations.

Ideally I'd love it if I could simulate a 3 monitor workstation. Maybe for the next iteration.

  • sircastor  3 years ago

    If you can put up all the windows from your 3 display workstation, why would you want to simulate displays?

    There’s a similar approach available for the Meta quest 2 (and I’m sure the quest pro and quest 3) but it takes a little reorienting to stop thinking in terms of “screens”

    • Corrado  3 years ago

      Wow, this makes me think of the fabled zooming interface[0]. Why limit yourself to a "monitor" or a set of windows when the sky's (literally) the limit? With a ZUI you could have the entire world at your fingertips. Browser history (or git commits) could just be further away from you in the Z direction. Or maybe it's behind you and you just have to turn around to see it.

      [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface

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    • warning26  3 years ago

      From what they showed, you can’t break the windows out of the screen mirror rectangle.

      You’re right though, if they allowed windows to freely float, it would also solve the issue.

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  • ozten  3 years ago

    Maybe. They told an easy to understand story in 10 seconds. Apple is amazing at educating the customer.

Andrew_nenakhov  3 years ago

I don't think it can simulate any app. Likely, it is a feature akin Continuity, and you have to have corresponding app installed on your Vision Pro to pick it up from Mac and continue working on a headset.

  • sib301  3 years ago

    I’m fairly certain that you can just create a virtual monitor in the vision pro that just mirrors the MacBook like any other display would.

  • pests  3 years ago

    While they did confirm Continuity would work across visionOS they also showed direct footage of your Mac monitor being displayed as an app while using your Mac.