VP as productivity device?

[Night Spring]

I'm curious how VP works at productivity tasks. Specifically, can Books open more than one book at a time? How about PDFs? How easy or hard is it to select text, copy, and past it into a Word or Pages document, just using VP UI, that is, without any keyboard or mouse? Any other insights into what it's like to use VP for productivity would be much appreciated, thanks!

 

[riverfreak]

Everyone’s productivity needs are a bit different. I’ll test some of your use cases later.

This morning, I had a zoom call. I positioned the zoom call front and center, conference call notes in a Google Docs via Safari over my left shoulder, and omniplan to the right.

These windows didn’t look like a 32” monitor in front of my face. They were huge and immersive. Compelling. When the call was over, I took off the unit, set it in the case, and went and got a coffee. Now I’m thinking about dumping my Studio with its monitors and just using my MBP when I need to do tasks not appropriate for the VP.

 

[kreasu_]

I can do my entire workflow in the headset and it’s more comfortable than my monitor and best of all it feels way better to use standing up on my kitchen bar than it does to work on my real standing desk / studio display but I am using a Magic Mouse and trackpad

Moving text over etc is fine text entry is fine if you’re using Siri but you know Siri isn’t perfect with long form dictation typically.

 

[Night Spring]

These windows didn’t look like a 32” monitor in front of my face. They were huge and immersive. Compelling. When the call was over, I took off the unit, set it in the case, and went and got a coffee. Now I’m thinking about dumping my Studio with its monitors and just using my MBP when I need to do tasks not appropriate for the VP.

Thank you. This is what I was hoping for, that the VP windows are more immersive and pleasant to use than desktop monitors.

Moving text over etc is fine

How exactly do you select text? I haven't seen that described anywhere yet.

Oh, and can you select text, copy and paste, do rudimentary text entry (I know the VP virtual keyboard kind of sucks) from a VP into Mac apps without a keyboard? My use case is that my Mac mini is in the living room, and I want to connect to the mini from the bedroom with a VP and use some Mac apps. Also move files around in the Finder. It'd be nice if I could do that without having to keep a keyboard and mouse in the bedroom. For that matter, can I manipulate the Mac with VP, keyboard and mouse in another room?

 

[riverfreak]

on copy/paste: easier than on iOS.

To do so, you look at something, then pinch and hold. This hilights the current word. Unpinch your fingers and the current word is selected with the selection expansion options then available. Expand or contract your selection as necessary by looking at one of the selection controls, pinching and dragging.

Pasting is similar in reverse. Works well. Look where you want to insert. Tap by pinching. Dialogue comes up with familiar iOS style options of paste/select/select all.

I haven’t tried this on Mac apps yet, just in Vision OS

 

[Nathan King]

I’ve used the Vision Pro for several hours using various productivity apps (Obsidian, Mail, Safari, VSCode, Zoom, Calendar, Messages) and find that it works shockingly well. I routinely copy snippets and links from Safari into Obsidian and find it easy and intuitive. I’m actually writing this reply from the Vision Pro right now. Text is crisp and legible. I can do my entire job as a developer from the headset, and having an infinite canvas is a game-changer.