An app can also transition into “Full Space”, which is roughly like “full screening” an app on today’s OSes. My impression is that the shared space is arranged cylindrically around the user (moving with them?), with per-window depth controls, but I’m not yet sure of that. These 2D surfaces are in turn arranged in a “Shared Space”, which is roughly the new window manager. Windows, icons, menus, and even a pointer (more on that later). We see navigation controllers, split views, buttons, text fields, scroll views, etc, all arranged on a 2D surface (modulo some 3D lighting and eye tracking effects). Those apps are organized around familiar UIKit controls and layouts. At a high level, the pitch is not that this is a new kind of dynamic medium, but rather that Vision Pro gives you a way to use (roughly) 2D iPad app UIs on a very large, spatial display. I was surprised to see that the interface paradigm is classic WIMP. (inferred) apps act as containers for files and documents movement between those containers is constrained.apps present interface content, which is defined on a per-app basis app interfaces cannot meaningfully interact, with narrow carve-outs for channels like drag-and-drop. to perform an action, you launch an app which affords that activity no attempt is made to move towards finer-grained “activity-oriented computing”.visionOS is organized around “apps”, which are conceptually defined just like apps on iOS: Given how ambitious the hardware package is, the software paradigm is surprisingly conservative. What does Apple imagine we’ll be doing with these devices, and how will we do it? Paradigm I’m mainly interested in the user interface and the computing paradigm. The hardware seems faintly unbelievable-a computer as powerful as Apple’s current mid-tier laptops (M2), plus a dizzying sensor/camera array with dedicated co-processor, plus displays with 23M 6µm pixels (my phone: 3M 55µm pixels the PSVR2 is 32µm) and associated optics, all in roughly a mobile phone envelope.īut that kind of vertical integration is classic Apple. Some quick notes following Apple’s announcement.
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