I kinda dig the plush marshmallow, spacesuit-like case for Vision Pro. But do we think there might have been a reality in which the outside was made from their FineWoven material, and it got switched due to the lashing it received in September?

On the other hand, I asked Apple why the huge library of VR video on YouTube doesn’t work at all on the Vision Pro, and the company basically told me it wasn’t good enough to support, saying that “much of this content was created for devices that do not deliver a high-quality spatial experience” and that the company’s efforts were instead focused on “delivering the best spatial media experience possible including spatial photos and videos, Apple Immersive Video, and 3D movies available on Apple TV.”

Translation: don’t hold your breath for YouTube VR support.

Damn. 😕 (Via theverge.com)

Late one night, I made an art gallery of giant Safari windows in our office’s large open cafe area and walked around, looking at huge webpages for a while. I am telling you, it is wild.

It’s this kind of stuff that I’m pysched for. A whole new dimension of computing. (Via theverge.com)

Speaking of the Mac, I know a lot of people are excited about the idea of buying a Vision Pro just to put up giant virtual monitors. There’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that Mac display sharing works really well, and Apple ecosystem tricks like Handoff and Continuity are pure magic in this context. You can copy on your Mac and paste in visionOS, and it just works. You can open your Mac display in visionOS and drag the mouse off the screen, and suddenly, your Mac’s keyboard and trackpad are controlling visionOS apps. It works just like it does between a Mac and an iPad.

I was so curious about how trackpads and Universal Control would be supported, and this sound perfect! (Via theverge.com)

The upshot of all of this is that 4K content runs at a native 4K resolution — it has all the pixels to do it, just like an iMac — but you have a grand total of 2560 x 1440 to place windows in, regardless of how big you make the Mac display in space, and you’re not seeing a pixel-perfect 5K image.

It is incredible that all of this works with just a single button click, but all that scaling complication also explains the bad news: you can only have a single Mac display in visionOS. You can’t have multiple Mac monitors floating in space. Maybe next time.

We probably shouldn’t be surprised here. The M2 (and M3) only support one external display. Maybe a future Vision Pro will include an Pro-level M-series chip for multiple Mac displays. (Via theverge.com)

After all these years of Apple talking about AR, I counted exactly three things in my entire time with the Vision Pro that offered a preview of the AR future. One: when you look at your Mac, the Vision Pro sometimes puts up a “connect display” button above it that starts screen sharing. Two: when you’re typing on a Bluetooth keyboard and look down at your hands, it puts a little text preview window above the keyboard so you can see what you’re typing. These are little features, yes, but they are some of the first true AR computing features that have ever shipped on a mainstream device, and they are an incredibly tantalizing glimpse of what might be possible. They also happen to be incredibly useful.

I’m sure this is just the beginning, and it’s going to be incredibly cool. (Via theverge.com)

@jarrod If the limitation sits on the side of the Mac not being able to output more than 1 4K display, I wonder if you could connect 2 separate Macs at the same time? 🤔

@markv Clever idea, but my guess is no. It must be some limitation between the two, because even on the most powerful MacBooks, you can still only do one display.