{"id":81572,"date":"2024-03-02T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/6-features-wed-love-to-see-in-vision-pros-first-major-software-update\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:21:12","slug":"6-features-wed-love-to-see-in-vision-pros-first-major-software-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/6-features-wed-love-to-see-in-vision-pros-first-major-software-update\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Features We\u2019d Love to See in Vision Pro\u2019s First Major Software Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vision Pro is an impressive headset but it\u2019s not perfect right out of the gate. Luckily, Apple has a great track record of improving products for years through software updates, and Vision Pro isn\u2019t likely to be an exception. But what should the company focus on first? Here\u2019s what I\u2019d like to see.<\/p>\n

Apple first announced Vision Pro to the world on June 5th, 2023, at its annual WWDC event. That means the one-year anniversary of that announcement will likely coincide with WWDC 2024. It\u2019s there where we expect the company will reveal details of its first major software update to the headset\u2019s VisionOS operating system.<\/p>\n

While we patiently wait for that announcement, here are the changes that really shouldn\u2019t have to wait until Vision Pro 2.<\/p>\n

Window Management<\/h3>\n

Even if Vision Pro did nothing else, it\u2019s pretty great at making virtual windows appear in the world around you. You can put them anywhere you want, change their size, and use them for apps, games, movies, music, and more. You can place screens all over your house, or wrap yourself in a bubble of screens for the ultimate productivity space.<\/p>\n

But while you can individually move and resize windows at will, the windows are largely unaware of each other. They will fade out nicely on the edges so they don\u2019t clip through one another. But it\u2019s very easy to spawn a window in front of another window, making the one in the back inaccessible without moving the first one out of the way.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s got to be a better way to manage many windows, and this is the #1 thing I\u2019d like to see in the first big Vision Pro update. And there\u2019s a few different features that should probably be considered.<\/p>\n

Pinning<\/h5>\n

For one, it would be nice to be able to \u2018pin\u2019 a window so it never moves, even if you recenter the device (which recalls all windows in front of you). This would allow users to make permanent arrangements of windows around their home and other frequented locations.<\/p>\n

Following<\/h5>\n

You can pick up windows and literally carry them with you from one room to another, but sometimes you just want the window to be a good boy and follow you on its own. A \u2018follow\u2019 mode would allow windows to hover near you. You might think they should just attach directly to your face like a HUD, but in practice that\u2019s pretty uncomfortable. Having a \u2018soft\u2019 follow system that just slides the window closer once you get a certain distance away would be ideal.<\/p>\n

Presets and Groups<\/h5>\n

I find myself commonly setting up similar window arrangements in Vision Pro. Probably the most commonly used is one big window in front of me with two smaller windows flanking it on the left and right. I\u2019d love to be able to save this arrangement as a preset that I could open with one click, instead of opening and placing three different windows.<\/p>\n

And window grouping would synergize nicely with this, not only making it easy to define which windows you want to save into a preset, but allowing you to move all of them as a unit, without breaking their existing arrangement.<\/p>\n

App Flow<\/h5>\n

In Vision Pro, every app essentially becomes its own window. So if you typically jump between an email client, calendar, music player, task list, team chat, and browser window\u2026 well you quickly end up with a lot of windows surrounding you. Not only do you run quickly out of space, too many windows means needing to move your head around to look at them more than is ideal for productivity.<\/p>\n

\u2018App Flow\u2019 could let you put multiple apps into a single window, but let you swipe between them with ease. And yes, I\u2019m calling this \u2018App Flow\u2019 as a nod to Apple\u2019s Cover Flow system that could be a great conceptual starting point for this kind of feature by making every album cover and app window.<\/p>\n