In demonstrations, you typically see the Mac’s screen being mirrored only. If the Vision Pro was capable of supporting the bandwidth required for more than two monitors, Apple would likely have highlighted this feature, considering the popularity of multi-monitor setups. It appears that we may need to wait for the M6 or M7 chips for such capability. Notably, even the basic MacBook models currently do not support more than one external monitor via a wired connection. As it stands, we have to rely on the somewhat unreliable AirPlay wireless protocol to connect our Mac screens to the Vision Pro. This often results in issues like dropped frames and jittery displays, a common experience for those who have tried extending their display to an iPad.
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Apple has made zero indication you can simulate a multi-monitor setup with your Mac with Vision Pro
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Unless you are playing games/watching media would it matter though?
Given the eye tracking, could you not have say 3 virtual screens with apps on them, and when you looked at any of the 3 virtual screens, only THAT SCREEN went live, the others just froze.
There is no reason to need the screens you are not actually looking at being updated in real time.
If the live view can flip quick enough, then it may even seem like all three screens are live as they are always active the second you are looking at them, and freeze as you look away.
Given the eye tracking, could you not have say 3 virtual screens with apps on them, and when you looked at any of the 3 virtual screens, only THAT SCREEN went live, the others just froze.
There is no reason to need the screens you are not actually looking at being updated in real time.
If the live view can flip quick enough, then it may even seem like all three screens are live as they are always active the second you are looking at them, and freeze as you look away.
They wouldn’t even have to completely freeze, just update at maybe 1fps in the background so you could see updates if required in your peripheral vision.
What I'm really hoping for is an update that supports sharing multiple app windows from my Mac into the Vision Pro space. So not just my (multi-monitor) desktop but simply individual apps. And it just needs to render/update the apps I'm looking at so bandwidth shouldn't be the main issue.
This is a smart solution, therefore you know Apple won't implement it.
My real hope is to be able to have it connected to my laptop while the laptop is closed. So it can be used on flights without needing to worry about the seat in front reclining into the computer. Easy enough to have a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad accessible.
Just not sure if the AVP needs to have visual of the computer. Also curious if it can become a monitor for a Mac Studio without a monitor attached to it.
(When you travel for work with multiple computers and lots of cases, you look for whatever might make a quick setup easier)
Just not sure if the AVP needs to have visual of the computer. Also curious if it can become a monitor for a Mac Studio without a monitor attached to it.
(When you travel for work with multiple computers and lots of cases, you look for whatever might make a quick setup easier)
Watch this review at 06:24, describes the multi-monitor setup quite well.
I imagine that MS FS, when a true spatial app is released down the road, is going to *wild* on this thing.This limitation means my 3 monitor PC setup for Microsoft Flight Simulator won't happen with my AVP?
Yes, so you can have one window mirroring your laptop display, and the others have to be apps on the Vision Pro. Doesn't replace multiple monitor setup, but could work for some depending on what they need.
Really will depend on each person and the apps available, if they can make it work.
YES!
If a developer makes a true flight simulator using Vision OS, I can see it will be a huge hit for the aviation industry, private pilots, avgeeks, and safety training.
Spatial awareness training can be the most beneficial to preventing crashes....
I don’t want the other windows to be lame iPad mobile apps. Quite a quality difference between working with your computer and an app developed with the restrictions of a walled-garden
In a sense, a multi monitor setup is just an extending of surface area to apply a multi app setup. When you have 3 Monitors in front of you and strategically lay out all the apps to be easily accessible, you are limited by the surface area of those monitors. With AVP, you'll be able to do similar but your surface area is much larger.
I do think there will be a lot of room for improvement in how we place the apps quickly and/or switch between them. I imagine some new gestures will be necessary to quickly grab a window that is across the room and pull it into focus. Creating a sort of Minority Report type interaction. Something like, look, three finger grab and pull like you are pulling a string.
Absolutely agree, I fully expect to be able to open PyCharm, VS Code, etc. as my open apps. If not, it'll be returned after toying with it for 14 days.
Same, if the AVP turns out to be a glorified 3D iPad, I will be returning it too.
I have 2 iPads (work and home) and NEVER use it.
My kids use it.
I don't see the value of iPads myself as I use the Mac desktop or MBP or MBA all the time....
Maybe I am not the new young generation anymore ???
I kind of hope they have a wired solution if you’re going to be sitting next to a laptop or desktop it’d be nice to plug in for 0 latency multi monitor similar to how xreal does it
Same. If Apple wants to screw around by not figuring out arguably the most important use case, they can eat the cost of a returned unit.
Zero chance. There are no ports on this 3D iPad-viewer except for the battery connection.
Seems like this would work but I doubt it. The reason for not supporting multiple displays is because of the limitation of pushing that many pixels. Not because they arbitrarily chose 1 monitor to support
I mean I imagine there could be an alternative cable or maybe some type of pass through on the battery as that does have a usb port but yeah I would call it a low chance as well
You only have to worry about the pixel count on the window that you are viewing. It’s not trying to fully render each window, think Unity or Unreal.
Thinking productivity, I could have Excel running on the Mac, a native Safari and Mail running on AVP, and Microsoft 365 for iPad showing a Word document.
That seems doable, but if you have multiple apps on your computer that aren't also iPad apps, not so sure. Hope it does though.
Based on how it is, the Vision Pro will be a poor replacement for a multi monitor setup. It’s clear it just mirrors the laptop screen at this point. Frankly the only way the Vision Pro is better than a monitor is if you are traveling. Otherwise I’m sure a quality 32” 4k+ monitor would be better.