AR/VR

Note how different Apple’s strategy is from the vision in Meta’s and MagicLeap’s pitches. These companies point towards radically different visions of computing, in which interfaces are primarily three-dimensional and intrinsically spatial. Operations have places; the desired paradigm is more object-oriented (“things” in the “meta-verse”) than app-... See more

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. Those apps are organized around familiar UIKit controls and layouts. We see navigation controllers, split views, buttons, text fields, scroll views, etc, all arran... See more

visionOS is organized around “apps”, which are conceptually defined just like apps on iOS:

• to perform an action, you launch an app which affords that activity; no attempt is made to move towards finer-grained “activity-oriented computing”


• apps present interface content, which is defined on a per-app basis; app interfaces cannot meaningfully interact,

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