The Vision Pro’s Ultrawide Mac Display Is Very Close To Being A Killer App

Since its release, I’ve mostly utilized Apple’s Vision Pro for illustration a movie theater. The VR headset is an astonishing measurement to watch Dune — but beyond that, it hasn’t really lived up to its imaginable arsenic a general-purpose computing device.

Today, that’s yet starting to change. With nan update to visionOS 2.2, Apple is earnestly upgrading nan headset’s expertise to activity pinch a Mac. It’s astir apt nan closest constituent nan Vision Pro has to a slayer app.

The Vision Pro has been tin to reflector nan aboveground of a Mac since clip one, but I recovered nan original Mac Virtual Display characteristic limiting. Text was crisp astatine debased resolutions, but nan aboveground was cramped. I could get overmuch abstraction astatine higher resolutions, but nan matter was excessively mini and blurry to read. Yes, I tin rustle it up to nan size of a autobus to make things readable, isolated from then, I’m craning my caput astir measurement excessively overmuch to spot everything. My normal three-monitor setup lets maine spot nan astir important worldly pinch flimsy movements, but that conscionable hasn’t been imaginable earlier now.

In visionOS 2.2, nan modular Mac show is now curved, and it seems sharper. It’s not Retina-sharp astatine nan highest resolutions, but I nary longer personification to make it gigantic to get legible text. The default virtual show becomes 1 of 3 options — Standard, Wide, and Ultrawide — erstwhile your Mac is updated to macOS 15.2, which lets it return complete foveated rendering from nan Vision Pro. Those 2 different modes instantly made nan virtual show viable for me, giving maine nan abstraction I’m accustomed to successful my three-monitor life.

You tin crank nan solution successful Ultrawide each nan measurement up to 10240 x 2880 if you’d like, but nan saccharine spot for maine has been nan Wide display’s maximum 6720 x 2880 resolution, which lets maine spot everything I petition to without perpetually rotating my Vision Pro-laden head. It ends up emotion overmuch for illustration a existent show and not immoderate imagination show that evokes Weird Al Yankovic’s opus “Frank’s 2000” TV.”

This has made it overmuch easier for maine to relocate to different room successful my house, aliases moreover extracurricular if I wanted. I wouldn’t return it to a java shop for a number of reasons (do I clip disconnected it down erstwhile I spell to nan restroom aliases deterioration nan Vision Pro successful location for illustration a maniac?), but I’d perfectly bring it connected a activity trip. Apple has too made it truthful that nan audio is sent done nan headset alternatively of your computer’s speakers, arsenic it did before.

The widescreen options came successful useful recently, erstwhile I strained my backmost successful a measurement that made it achy to beryllium upright. I dislike doing activity connected a laptop, but reclining successful furnishings pinch nan Vision Pro connected was abruptly a existent action for me.

There are quirks, though. Switching betwixt nan show modes tin beryllium sluggish, and your Mac doesn’t ever retrieve what solution you set, truthful if you move from Wide to Ultrawide and back, you mightiness find each your windows piled connected apical of each other. And nan Keyboard Awareness feature, which shows your keyboard moreover if you personification 1 of Apple’s immersive environments afloat turned on, useful awesome pinch my Magic Keyboard but doesn’t reliably show nan mechanical 1 I prefer.

Still, those are insignificant issues. The expanded virtual show is simply a captious upgrade, and if it’s not successful slayer app territory, it’s astatine slightest correct adjacent doorway to it. It still doesn’t thief nan Vision Pro pinch its biggest issues, for illustration that our bodies are each different and not everyone will find it comfortable to usage for agelong stretches of time. And it doesn’t make Apple’s headset immoderate small expensive.

But it does thief that my Vision Pro is now overmuch than a individual movie theater. Now, it’s a gigantic, high-res curved show pinch cleanable viewing angles, too. That makes nan worth consciousness a mini personification to right.