Special Thanks
I consider it an incredible honor to get to write and publish this MacStories review covering a platform I believe in and enjoy deeply. Thank you so much for taking the time to read it. This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support of some wonderful people, so I’d like to thank a few in particular:
My wife Katherine, who is the most amazing partner and pushes me to pursue my dreams, including this one.
My son Noah, my inspiration for trying to make the world a little better in my own nerdy way.
Federico and John, for giving a guy with zero professional writing experience a chance to be a part of the incredible team they’re assembling.
The rest of the MacStories team, whom I endlessly enjoy working with every day.
Sigmund Judge, my podcasting partner in crime and consistent go-to for bouncing around ideas.
Tim Chaten, for never saying no to nerding out about Vision Pro with me.
Indie app developers, who create tools that improve my life and inspire me to create.
Joseph Simpson, for generously sharing developer perspective on visionOS.
The Vision Pro team at Apple, for their incredible work on this release and for blazing the trail of spatial computing.
Magic Rays of Light listeners.
Club MacStories members.
Our Discord members, for having such interesting conversations I always learn from.
And once again, a huge thank-you to MacStories readers like you for supporting our work and being so welcoming to me as I joined the team this year. This community is amazing, and it’s a privilege to be a part of it.
Multitasking is another ongoing issue in visionOS, and version 2 doesn’t change much on this front. We’ll talk more about this topic in a bit. ↩︎
I had given up on playing Jetpack Joyride 2 on my Vision Pro due to so many games being interrupted by the Control Center caret until this tip from Federico helped me limit unintended activations. Moving the caret further up made it harder to use when I wanted to, though, so it still wasn’t an ideal solution. ↩︎
Pixels? ↩︎
This was the first improvement I noticed after installing visionOS 2, and it was immediate. I literally said out loud, “My hands look awesome!” ↩︎
Videos, by the way, can be trimmed in the Photos app in visionOS 2. I didn’t realize this capability was missing until Apple announced it as a new feature. ↩︎
The Photos app does offer a limited selection of automatically converted pictures in the Featured Spatial Photos collection. I find this collection delightful to browse, and it gives me hope that more automatic conversion options are possible. ↩︎
Alas, visionOS does now remain the sole Apple platform without a built-in calculator app. ↩︎
The platform could still win some extra points with film buffs, though, by adding support for watching iTunes Extras bundled with film purchases and giving users a path to upgrade 2D titles imported from other storefronts via Movies Anywhere to 3D. ↩︎
The example use case Apple gives for this technology is a virtual pet that abides within a particular room and greets you when you enter it, and I want to buy this app immediately. I really hope there’s a developer out there working on it. ↩︎
Pardon the pun. ↩︎
Okay, maybe not that last one. Email’s enough of a chore as it is. ↩︎
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