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Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by culturestate on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:25AM (#36327404)
> I am definitely not going to spend $3.5k and still buy a $1k MacBook to do my work.

I would happily spend $3.5k on an insanely portable, wraparound, multi-monitor setup for my $1k MacBook.

If this thing works anywhere close to as well as they say it does for that use case, I won’t be able to get my credit card out fast enough. The fact that it could be used independently is just a cherry on top.

Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by npace12 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:33AM (#36327504)
you can only get 1 screen streamed from the mac at 4k they said
Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by rbreaves on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:42AM (#36327652)
Pretty sure with RDP type apps and lower res you can easily push 2 or 4 screens... but yea probably not at 4k. Sheesh that isn't even necessary for people doing productive work. Except for maybe video editors.
Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by taskforcegemini on Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:35AM (#36338568)
resolutiin requirements change dramatically when vr is involved. you don't want to be reading blurry text and pixels don't map 1:1 when "projected" in vr
Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by jonhohle on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:49AM (#36327767)
Window layers are already separate and independently renderable. It would be great to get just all windows as opposed to a Mac desktop panel where windows are stuck inside. (Kind of how Classic apps could run within the OS X window space.) Stage Manager may have laid the groundwork for window groups operating outside the typical desktop or even virtual screen idiom.
Re:SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple by jedberg on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:21PM (#36328258)
Ok, but that's version one. Also, not sure I need more than that. Looking at what I have open on my Mac right now, all but two (the IDE and shell) have equivalent iOS apps. So in theory I could run all of those on the Vision Pro in other windows.

Pretty sure one 4k window is more than enough to handle the things I can't do on the Vision natively.