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Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a G... by risho on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @05:45PM (#39196989)
i generally agree with the sentiment of this post. it does appear to be a beta/dev kit. i will say that the productivity criticism is a BIT unfair. It may be the case that you can only have 1 MACOS display, but you can have many non macos apps running right alongside the 1 macos display. You could have your macos display doing things that only macos can do, and then run the vision pro version of discord or teams or safari or whatever else you would use that has an ipad/vision version as floating windows separate from the macos display.
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Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a G... by madeofpalk on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:37PM (#39197557)
iOS/visionOS lacks good window management tools for this though and since macOS Apple has not demonstrated they can build them for new platforms. Maybe visionOS will motivate them to actually get it right, but that hasn't been shown off yet.

I think about all the apps I'm running and switching between on my computer now, using shortcuts and toolbars and docks to arrange, hide, and switch between them. Everyone using multiple apps on visionOS just looks chaotic.

I once had a second portrait monitor next to my ultrawide. I had to get rid of it because it was just too tiring to be constantly turning my head so far to look at it. It didn't work out.

I cannot imagine how uncomfortable it would be if each app needed to be in a different physical space that required turning my head to use. Painful.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a G... by zmmmmm on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:10PM (#39197263)
yes true - a lot depends on the integration in that scenario though. Can I seamlessly copy and paste rich content between the, drag and drop, does the mouse seamlessly move from my Mac desktop to the safari window next to it, etc.

At a deeper level it depends a lot on the question of does Apple want this? If they do then all these will be solved over time. But if they actually see MacOS as a legacy integration then they simply aren't going to invest in encouraging people to use it. I'm waiting to see indications on which way they are going to play it.

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