Can You Do Real Work on an Apple Vision Pro?

Can you get real work done wearing an Apple Vision Pro

Yes asterisk So the easy answer is yes because you can always screen share from a Mac you just open control center

You hit this button right here Mac virtual display You connect and it'll appear right in your space and this is a window just like any other window in Vision OS

So you can pinch and move it around alongside all the other apps you have open The keyboard and trackpad work exactly as you'd expect I can move it around right here on the Mac virtual display

But it also extends to the other apps you have open as well

So with my Mac trackpad, I can control my music or my other apps that I have open

So no matter what if you don't have the right app on your Apple Vision Pro You can always bring it up on your Mac and get work done just to the same

App support is the main limiting factor and how much work you can get done on a Vision Pro

Many critical parts of my job aren't possible without leaning on a virtual Mac

But that is to say that the core of what I do on Vision Pro Reading writing and keeping up with slack messages isn't just possible

It can be very pleasant and productive now Apple calls Vision Pro the first spatial computer

But the thing is even on a Mac I've always arranged my windows spatially just within the confines of my two-dimensional display on a Vision Pro

I can have largely the same workspace except much less crowded because the windows can take up as

Much space as they need to in the entire room Surrounding me if you're doing any amount of serious work on a Vision Pro

I cannot recommend enough adding a Bluetooth keyboard. This one made by Matias is called the Laptop Pro

It works flawlessly you pair it once and then anytime you put your headset back on it'll instantly start working again

You don't have to repair it every time And if your work demands that you can also add a Bluetooth mouse or trackpad

Now on a Mac your hands are constantly moving between the keyboard and the trackpad or a keyboard and a mouse

That's why there are so many keyboard shortcuts for things like copy paste undo redo bold

Italicize so that it reduces some of that friction your hands can stay on the keyboard to do those common tasks

You don't have to move them back and forth between on a Vision Pro that friction doesn't exist

For example, if I'm typing a document, I just look at the bold button pinch my fingers and now I'm typing in bold

Look again pinch and now I'm typing normally It's Instant there's no friction at all and it's not just bold like any function like this

I can add one of those for a read more tag in the middle of a post I don't have to memorize the awkward keyboard shortcut for it

It might only save a few seconds at a time But you really notice it and I can do this work from anywhere anywhere. I can sit a keyboard in my lap

you know my Mac is permanently tied to my desk because of the monitor the peripherals the external storage the

Microphone all that stuff plugged into it but my Vision Pro I can just get up sit my keyboard in my lap press and hold the digital crown and

Bring up the exact same working environment all my windows around me in as much space as I need wherever I go

Compared to a MacBook where you can only carry around your tiny 13 or 16 inch screen on a Vision Pro

I have the same immersive environment wherever I am if you aren't near an outlet

However, you are limited by the two to three hour battery life

Now you can use the Vision Pro Simultaneously with charging the battery, but that goes achingly slow

So you're pretty much limited to one or two of these excursions per day. You can also switch from your real-world environment and

dial in one of these immersive spaces and Suddenly you're doing your work on the surface of the moon

Now I have a little bit of light peeking in through my light shield I kind of suspect that I have a size too big, but it's uncanny

how instantly it transforms broad daylight into night and The other way around it really tricks your brain

My only wish is that pass-through worked as well with dogs and cats as it does with people

When I'm in this immersive environment, I can see my hands all well and good

But I can be completely oblivious to the fact that Indy right here is trying to get my attention

So those are some of the pros and cons working inside a Vision Pro It's closely correlated to how much work you can do entirely on the web without specialized apps

Although the virtual Mac display can smooth that down a bit Working on a Vision Pro has its annoyances quirks and limitations

But I think Apple has built a very solid foundation here for a version 1 product and it'll only get better over time

Remember to Like and subscribe stay tuned for more of our Vision Pro videos. I'm Dee Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac

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