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Any idea how the author was able to have multiple desktop screens? What app is he using for this? I thought it only allowed you to mirror one screen per Mac and

Any idea how the author was able to have multiple desktop screens? What app is he using for this? I thought it only allowed you to mirror one screen per Mac and from my experience it is quite laggy.

jlund-molfese 3y ago
Looks like iPad apps! You can tell by the icon floating at the top right of the windows, which appears for "compatible apps" aka iPad apps.
willemlaurentz 3y ago
I use the iPad Blink Shell app, it can have multiple windows and renders using the VisionOS UI, making it sharper than mirroring a Mac's display. It helps that I have optimised a great part of my workflow due to me liking tablets. Like others have said, AVP is like strapping an iPad on your head - I happen to like my iPad, too.
- drcode 3y ago
  Does the "multiple window" support of Blink work seamlessly on the helmet?
- zyklonix 3y ago
  That's great! It even supports VS Code. How did you manage to use the mouse? My AVP refuses to pair with a bluetooth mouse.
  - zyklonix 3y ago
    It only supports the Apple Magic Trackpad: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213998 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213998
rkangel 3y ago
Yes you can only mirror one screen from a Mac, but he's using the AVP as the computing device itself. So it's not multiple desktop screens it's multiple windows from locally running apps.
anonzzzies 3y ago
This is the problem(with Apple); this device, like iOS devices, is fenced off, so you cannot run vscode etc if you don’t connect a MacBook. For this device it’s actually worse than an iPad to disallow that: it’s 4x as expensive as a MacBook Air here but I cannot run most apps I want on it while that would make me buy one today. I don’t want another iPad (which I bought because it’s nice and small and great battery, but if I cannot code on it normally, what’s the point).
- charcircuit 3y ago
  >is fenced off, so you cannot run vscode No, the only reason you can't run vscode is that no one has put in the effort to port it. It's a problem of financial incentives and not a problem of "fences."
  - anonzzzies 3y ago
    So visionOS is more open than iOS? That would be good. I read it was similar. Edit: so it is indeed similar/same; cannot run normal desktop software even though desktop cpu.
    - charcircuit 3y ago
      iOS could get vscode too Edit: Desktop software can be ported to other operating systems. Just because an operating system can't run a different, desktop operating system's software that doesn't mean it can't run desktop software. The CPU is used in iPads too. It is used between 3 different form factors.
      - anonzzzies 3y ago
        Only the ‘shell’; not all the rest that make it practical. There are a lot of blog posts (a yearly one here) of people trying to code on iPads; they all end badly because Apple allows nothing. It’s fenched off. Nothing to do with lack of incentive to port Xcode; there are plenty of code apps on iPad, they just cannot run real envs (docker, anything other than toy interpreters etc) without rooting.

Any idea how the author was able to have multiple desktop screens? What app is he using for this? I thought it only allowed you to mirror one screen per Mac and from my experience it is quite laggy.

jlund-molfese 3y ago

Looks like iPad apps! You can tell by the icon floating at the top right of the windows, which appears for "compatible apps" aka iPad apps.

willemlaurentz 3y ago

I use the iPad Blink Shell app, it can have multiple windows and renders using the VisionOS UI, making it sharper than mirroring a Mac's display. It helps that I have optimised a great part of my workflow due to me liking tablets. Like others have said, AVP is like strapping an iPad on your head - I happen to like my iPad, too.

drcode 3y ago
Does the "multiple window" support of Blink work seamlessly on the helmet?
zyklonix 3y ago
That's great! It even supports VS Code. How did you manage to use the mouse? My AVP refuses to pair with a bluetooth mouse.
- zyklonix 3y ago
  It only supports the Apple Magic Trackpad: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213998 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213998

rkangel 3y ago

Yes you can only mirror one screen from a Mac, but he's using the AVP as the computing device itself. So it's not multiple desktop screens it's multiple windows from locally running apps.

anonzzzies 3y ago

This is the problem(with Apple); this device, like iOS devices, is fenced off, so you cannot run vscode etc if you don’t connect a MacBook. For this device it’s actually worse than an iPad to disallow that: it’s 4x as expensive as a MacBook Air here but I cannot run most apps I want on it while that would make me buy one today. I don’t want another iPad (which I bought because it’s nice and small and great battery, but if I cannot code on it normally, what’s the point).

charcircuit 3y ago
>is fenced off, so you cannot run vscode No, the only reason you can't run vscode is that no one has put in the effort to port it. It's a problem of financial incentives and not a problem of "fences."
- anonzzzies 3y ago
  So visionOS is more open than iOS? That would be good. I read it was similar. Edit: so it is indeed similar/same; cannot run normal desktop software even though desktop cpu.
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    iOS could get vscode too Edit: Desktop software can be ported to other operating systems. Just because an operating system can't run a different, desktop operating system's software that doesn't mean it can't run desktop software. The CPU is used in iPads too. It is used between 3 different form factors.
    - anonzzzies 3y ago
      Only the ‘shell’; not all the rest that make it practical. There are a lot of blog posts (a yearly one here) of people trying to code on iPads; they all end badly because Apple allows nothing. It’s fenched off. Nothing to do with lack of incentive to port Xcode; there are plenty of code apps on iPad, they just cannot run real envs (docker, anything other than toy interpreters etc) without rooting.