Apple Vision Prois clearly a first - gen product . Expensive , flawed , limited , and telling . Much of what it needs to really become a mass - market place gimmick will require novel ironware that is lighter , more affordable , and more fully have . But that ’s not to say that Apple should be contented with take its next big push at Apple Vision Air or Apple Vision Pro 2 . There are so many software change that would make this a much good overall product , some of which can be done in the next few hebdomad or calendar month , others that might need to be a part of visionOS 2 .
Apple has already releasedvisionOS 1.1 , but its improvements are minor at adept , and do n’t address some of the biggest botheration points and miss opportunities of Apple ’s fresh headset . Here are some of the package - related improvement we think should be at the top of Apple ’s list for improving thecurrentApple Vision Pro ; no new hardware required .
When you open a Vision Pro app ( other than fully immersive apps ) it appears with a fiddling windowpane taproom at the bottom with a “ Close ” button next to it . This floating window remains in place wherever you put it — you move , it stay put .
This is not a great app management experience.
While locking apps to the environment around you like this is telling and sometimes useful , there are times when it ’s a Brobdingnagian pain in the fanny . It should be possible to lock an app to the user , keeping the app in position relative to the Apple Vision Pro hardware . Perhaps we could double - pinch on the windowpane bar or have a lock chamber picture on the good side of it . I would apply such a feature every day . There are some apps I simply want to move around with me .
Capture the grandeur
When you tap the top button on a Vision Pro , you establish the Capture app for recording Spatial videos and photos . Those are limited in resolution , just as they are when you record one with the iPhone 15 Pro . A bunch is move on with the recording and seizure of these , so the resolution limit construct good sense .
But why areflatscreen captures and recordings limited to a resolution of just 1920×1080 ? It completely undercut the particular resolving of the Vision Pro video display and makes it concentrated to share cool experiences on societal feeds in their full gloriole .
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This is not a great app management experience.
No place like Home
The Home view salute apps in a variety of honeycomb - flair control grid with four apps on the top row , five in the middle , and four on the bottom . The first Thomas Nelson Page is all Apple apps , with one brochure for all “ compatible apps ” ( iPad and iPhone apps ) from any vendor . Then page 2 proceed some Apple apps before listing all your other apps in alphabetical order .
It ’s kind of a deal . I ’m not a fan of the App Library category on iPhone but at least there ’s some sensory faculty of organisation there . We need a well family view with the ability to customize our app layout , folders , and more . The only understanding this is n’t a bigger problem is that there are so few Vision Pro apps right now .
And how is this the only Apple mathematical product ( other than watchOS 10 Apple Watches ) that does n’t have a bob ?
These lock screen widgets would be pretty handy as heads-up display elements on Vision Pro.
Share and share alike
Even if I ’m in the same way with someone else with an Apple Vision Pro , we ca n’t see the same practical objects . We ca n’t share windows . There ’s no virtual whiteboard we can both walk up to and drag on . We may as well be in unlike parts of the orb . You should be capable to partake in a “ distance ” with someone else in your same physical environment , if both parties agree , and divvy up fully immersive surround and/or objects with remote users .
It ’s such an obvious skip that it makes one wonder if Apple is really hard at piece of work on such a feature film but just did n’t have it ready for launching . Here ’s hoping it ’s ready for the fall .
Heads up!
Just as it ’s useful for my iPhone ’s always - on display to show some wide-eyed widget info , the Vision Pro would benefit from provide the option to show simple info in myviewat all meter . Time and date would be an gentle thing , but copying the iPhone lock screen widgets model so I can immobilise a few pieces of utilitarian information to the top of my scene seems like a no - brainer , and easygoing on developers .
As with the iPhone ’s lock chamber screen door doodad , they should be confine in both turn and size and use only white with foil so the operating system can keep them legible ( and fade them away when needed ) .
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Keynote has a virtual presentation theater, but Music doesn’t have a virtual Karaoke room? Or even Sing support?
The gang’s all here
allow me watch a streaming picture in a virtual theaterwith my friends , who may be on the other side of the country . I do n’t even call for to see a “ Full - consistency Persona ” I just require to seesomethingin the seat next to me and phonation schmoose while we look on the same movie together . Vision Pro does support SharePlay , which permit you FaceTime someone while you watch or mind to the same thing together , but it ’s not the same as having them walking around the same immersive environment with you .
The same die for any other variety of shared real - clock time experience . Multiplayer games , for instance . If I ’m meet Fruit Ninja , maybe another player can charge up the fruit rocket launcher with fruit that issue forth down a conveyer swath , trying to leave more bonuses and fewer bombs . As it stands , every Vision Pro experience is solitary , except FaceTime , which is n’t all that different from the iPhone app .
Connect the devices
It ’s weird to me that the Vision Pro does n’t really work together with anything other than AirPods . Sure , you get your Messages and Photos sync in the cloud , but there ’s no apprisal when a call come in on your iPhone , for instance . Why ca n’t I take the call on Vision Pro just like I can on my Mac ?
Why does n’t it do anything at all with the Apple Watch ? How add up I can create a cool virtual display for my Mac by just glancing at “ connect ” but I ca n’t do that same matter with my iPhone or iPad ? Using Apple Vision Pro does n’t just make you find disconnected from other mass , it take a crap you feel disconnected from your other Apple devices , with the notable elision of creating a Mac practical showing .
Close the app gap
Fitness+ , Health , Calculator , Apple Store , rule My … so many important Apple apps are not uncommitted on Vision Pro at all , even in their iPad physical body . Others , such as Apple Music Classical , Books , Podcasts , Maps , and Clock , only have their iPad versions . We necessitate tangible spacial versions of all core group Apple apps .
Embrace the spatial
While the TV+ and Keynote apps have great “ spacial computer science ” feature of speech , so many others are little more than exalt iPad apps , whole devoid of utilitarian or fun spatial characteristic .
Why does n’t Apple Music support the “ Sing ” karaoke mode like it does on other platforms , with a practical immersive karaoke room or bar to perform in ? Why does n’t the Clock app countenance me set timers and trap them over thing in my environment , with spatial audio and visual cue stick aim me back to them when they go off ? Or even just a few different naturalistic - looking clock objects to take from and pin on the wall , with naturalistic animations and sounds when alarms go off ?
How about a Health app that syncs with my Apple Watch to show my mettle rate as a real 3D heart pulsing ? Fitness+ where a fitness teaching appears most to show me how to properly do yoga move ? Why is n’t there an Apple Music Classical app with the ability to listen to music in a virtual concert hall ? Why ca n’t Christian Bible put an real virtual book in my hands ? How about an Apple Store app that see like the real inside of a real Apple Store ?
I came up with all these ideas in 10 minute and Apple has n’t builtanyof them yet . Every single Apple app , at lower limit , should have spatial feature that you just ca n’t do with an iPhone or iPad app .
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