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> You saw the "look at your Mac and the screen appears" bit, right ? I did but all I saw was a virtual mirror of the Mac's screen. Not apps. The mirror is the
by cassianoleal 3y ago
> You saw the "look at your Mac and the screen appears" bit, right ?
I did but all I saw was a virtual mirror of the Mac's screen. Not apps. The mirror is the app, more like running a remote desktop app on the 3D world.
I didn't see VS Code running on its own virtual window. I didn't see iTerm running on its own window, separate to VS Code's. I didn't see a Mac's Firefox running on its own window, separate to the other 2. Sure, you can run visionOS's Safari, and probably even visionOS's Firefox in the future, or their iPad counterparts, but they're not nearly as powerful as the desktop's.
You can already mirror your Mac to an iPad. In fact, you can use the iPad as an extra screen for your Mac. In that sense, AVP is in fact not much more than an iPad with a spatial interface.
- spacedcowboy 3y agoI'm reasonably certain that the team developing this have enough on their plate to not write their own custom apps just yet, and they're certainly not going to let 3rd parties close to it just yet. There is an App Store icon in the video when the "menu" comes into view. That's a pretty heavy implication that there's going to be native apps running on the thing.
- cassianoleal 3y agoI 100% expect visionOS to have native apps. I never said anything in contrary.
- treesciencebot 3y agoThis is an amazing point. I was also thinking about the question in the parent, but reading this now makes me realize that unlimited monitors are nice but that's not what I would want for a truly immersive "spatial computing" experience.
- cassianoleal 3y agoYeah exactly. I don't want to stream my Mac's screen. I want to stream individual apps. Better yet, I just want to run those apps on the device and be free of the Mac. Add to that the ability to connect to an actual display, and this device could in fact finally replace a MacBook.