visionOS 2 Reaction

[moxxham]

To me the most disappointing thing was that they have not made any more of their own apps visionOS native. How do they expect to inspire developers when so many of their own apps are the iPad versions. It's really an embarrassment.

I love my VP, but that's something I just really don't understand from Apple. Weather would be great with the weather effects in the room with you, a reimagined home app with the potential to turn off lights etc just by looking at them (not sure how this would work with no direct access to camera feed, but surely there is a way.) I'd even just settle for actual native versions. Messages matching the features that iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia has.

And a few which make even more sense, like Pages and Numbers, Final Cut. I hope they update a few through 2.x updates, and we don't have to wait for VisionOS 3.

 

[ps3zocker]

I love my VP, but that's something I just really don't understand from Apple. Weather would be great with the weather effects in the room with you, a reimagined home app with the potential to turn off lights etc just by looking at them (not sure how this would work with no direct access to camera feed, but surely there is a way.) I'd even just settle for actual native versions. Messages matching the features that iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia has.

And a few which make even more sense, like Pages and Numbers, Final Cut. I hope they update a few through 2.x updates, and we don't have to wait for VisionOS 3.

If Forstall would be leading this OS, we would have books that you can hold in your hand, a calendar you can put on your desk. I wonder how they're going to approach this going forward. Most of the apps are just windows floating in space essentially. Mindfulness being the only one taking advantage of your surroundings for now. It shouldn't be that hard to simply port most of the iPad apps to this new style, except if they have more ambitious plans.

 

[5097842]

If Forstall would be leading this OS, we would have books that you can hold in your hand, a calendar you can put on your desk. I wonder how they're going to approach this going forward. Most of the apps are just windows floating in space essentially. Mindfulness being the only one taking advantage of your surroundings for now. It shouldn't be that hard to simply port most of the iPad apps to this new style, except if they have more ambitious plans.

I think maps is a huge missed opportunity. I live in NYC and use the iPad app, blown up to wall size. Still newish here, it helps me find areas of the city I’d like to explore. Imagine if 3D view was truly in 3D, and the image wasn’t constrained to the borders of an iPad app. Or using street view in 3D to get information on places as you virtually move down a street.

I do not think we’re at the place where everyone should be walking down NYC streets wearing AVPs. But it would be good for developers to prepare for the eventual AR glasses.