Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More (macrumors.com) 26
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple today released visionOS 1.1, marking the first major update to the visionOS operating system that was launched alongside the Vision Pro in February. visionOS updates can be installed by going to the Settings app on the Vision Pro, selecting the General section, and choosing Software Update. The Vision Pro headset will need to be removed to install new software, with a progress bar available on the front EyeSight display.
Apple is making several improvements to the Vision Pro with the visionOS update. Mobile Device Management is available for businesses, and Persona and EyeSight look better than before. The virtual keyboard has been updated to address bugs and make cursor positioning more accurate, and there are also bug fixes for the Mac Virtual Display. Here's a summary of visionOS 1.1 from the release notes: "This update introduces MDM features that enable deployment, device configuration, and management for enterprises. This release also includes Persona improvements, the ability to delete system apps from the Home View, as well as other features, bug fixes, and security updates for your Apple Vision Pro."
Apple is making several improvements to the Vision Pro with the visionOS update. Mobile Device Management is available for businesses, and Persona and EyeSight look better than before. The virtual keyboard has been updated to address bugs and make cursor positioning more accurate, and there are also bug fixes for the Mac Virtual Display. Here's a summary of visionOS 1.1 from the release notes: "This update introduces MDM features that enable deployment, device configuration, and management for enterprises. This release also includes Persona improvements, the ability to delete system apps from the Home View, as well as other features, bug fixes, and security updates for your Apple Vision Pro."
But is it better (Score:1)
than a Huawei?
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my old paper 3D glasses with the blue and red film that I got from a cracker jack box is better than most anything hua wei gets up to
Why is this on here? (Score:4, Interesting)
VisionOS seems to have added very little. In the meantime Quest's OS and PC companion app have been updated in the past month with huge and highly significant improvements including 120Hz support for Airlink, and virtual controller simulation from handtracking bringing handtracking to software which didn't support it.
There's enough happening in the world, we don't need to copy and paste every change note from the Apple website on Slashdot. Especially not given how few people here seem to have VR headsets.
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Stop trying to make Quest happen! It's not going to happen.
The quest is happening more than the original Xbox, the Gamecube, The Wii U. Take your head out of the sand before you run out of air.
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Why is this on here?
To bait Apple fans and ragebait Apple haters, increasing views, interaction, and ad revenue.
Main improvement seems to be foveated rendering (Score:2)
The other improvements are nice (in particular personas seem much better) but an under the radar change that is not really being reported, is the virtual Mac monitor when mirroring seems to perform better all around - before you could see to the sides the effect of foveated rendering with areas you were not looking at not quite as sharp, now the whole screen appears to be sharp at all times (or maybe they just increased the area of sharpness for foveated rendering).
It also can attach to older Intel Macs wit
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So (Score:2)
Apple has done essentially nothing and added more useless features. It almost amusing how bad their software devs are.
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Apple has done essentially nothing and added more useless features. It almost amusing how bad their software devs are.
It is interesting that Apple's visionOS 1.0 is already miles better than anything else out there, even though the Competition has had several years and multiple hardware and software generations.
Yeah, essentially nothing; except smoke the competition right out of the gate.
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Except they haven't accomplished literally anything. Hell, one of the key features highlighted was one that should have never been missing since the very first internal alpha iterations - assuming they even did any kind of in-house testing, which I doubt. They started with near useless software on extremely overpriced, ugly hardware and since spent their time adding things that shouldn't have been missing to begin with. It wasn't worthy of being called 1.0 software, it's still beta at best. Apple's software
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Except they haven't accomplished literally anything.
Have you tried it?
You should make an appointment online to go to an Apple Store for the 20-minute demo.
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Oh boy, 20 minutes of showing me how useless, ugly, and uncomfortable it is. It's garbage.
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Lol. If it was not for the competition paving the way with real innovation who would apple copy to make their crap?
Paving what way, exactly?
visionOS is simply better at this point than what the other AR/VR OEMs are doing.
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If only that were true.
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If only that were true.
Prove it. Show the examples.
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Prove yours first.
VR Virtual Keyboard (Score:2)
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A VR system should look at my fingers typing on any actual keyboard and record the key strokes, even though that keyboard isn't plugged in to anything. They've got to figure that I'm not going to want to give up the tactile feedback of my fancy keyboard just because I'm using VR.
Bluetooth keyboards and mice/trackpads aren't generally plugged into anything. They work fine directly with visionOS.
Why bother with a secondary input method (air-typing), which is a long way from being perfect? Air Typing is fine for short pieces of typing; but just like that desktop "projected keyboard" several years ago, there are insurmountable problems with fingers being obscured and sloppy "aim", that may never be solved completely.
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It would be very on brand for Apple to surmount the insurmountable problems, but if they can't, it would also be quick and easy to just put a USB input directly into the headset so that people can plug in their desired peripherals.
They already have a USB-C connector on the Battery Pack.
But requiring those peripherals to be Bluetooth would just not be that big of a restriction.
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Exactly this, why should apple start innovating when they can simply wait for other companies to do the heavy lifting and then they can just copy it after.
That the appple way.
WTF, over?