Apple Vision Pro

The Mac streams the globe into the headset

The Mac draws, the headset shows: View → “Show on Vision Pro…” (⌥⌘V) brings the globe all around you, without an app on the headset, from an M1 too. Checked with Mac and headset on 27.2.

Both eyes side by side, as the Mac's window shows them while streaming, the view up the Lauterbrunnen valley to the glaciers at its head, at the top the navigation in the room; not a recording from the headset

All around you

You look around with your head; keyboard, mouse and SpaceMouse on the Mac keep steering. The headset draws sharpest where you look, and the sharp spot moves with your gaze.

The picture above shows what the Mac draws; it is not a recording from the headset.

With your hands

Look at a point and tap thumb and index finger together:

Gesture	Effect
double tap	fly to the point you look at
tap and drag	grab the ground
both hands apart and together	closer and farther away
both hands turned against each other	turn the globe around the point
both hands lowered and raised	tilt the view

The Earth as a model

At its true size the Earth has hardly any depth in the headset: your eyes see everything farther away than a few hundred meters alike. So it shrinks with height to a model you stand over, and mountains and valleys stand out in space. You set how much under “Depth”.

Adjust while streaming

The window “Vision Pro Stream” holds “Depth”, “Sharpness”, “Exaggeration” and “Anti-Aliasing”; they work at once, while you see in the headset what they change. “Status” shows how the connection is going.

The window “Vision Pro Stream” with depth, sharpness, exaggeration, anti-aliasing and the displays in the room — The window “Vision Pro Stream”

The headset shows only the globe, not the atlas.