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• • October 15, 2024 at 8:25 am #14407304
    John Kelsall

    Member

    Hi everyone

    Has anybody tried InDesign with the Apple Vision Pro yet?

    I’m going away for 16 days and was thinking that I could still work with my set up at work whilst away – 2 large screens using the Apple Vision Pro for the screens.

    This would be ideal, but I suspect that things won’t be so smooth if I did it. I’m under the impression that as Vision Pro detects your eye movements to determine what Apps to open etc., it sharpens the area of the where you are looking at and blurs the peripheral background. You don’t notice this blurring, but when you are looking at InDesign on a big screen then the blurring around the edges of your eye will probably be very noticeable and give you the feeling of ‘tunnel vision’ and the InDesign panels you are not looking at will look blurry in the corner of your eye – a sort of uncomfortable blurry working existence.

    All this is just a guess, of course. I’ve tried a demo of the Vision Pro in the Apple Store which was breathtaking, but all there were able to show in way of using it in the workplace was a demo of Keynote which is not the same thing.

    Has anybody tried InDesign on it? Any thoughts on this anyone?

    Vision Pro is definitely the future, but may be the future too soon (for the moment).

    Thanks for any advice.

  • October 16, 2024 at 12:10 am #14407341
    Steve Davis

    Participant

    I don’t think that we’re there yet but I’d be very curious to hear how it goes for you.

  • October 18, 2024 at 2:16 pm #14407572
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I have not tried using it yet… From what I have seen (in videos) it doesn’t seem like it would work well for a “real world work” environment.

  • November 8, 2024 at 1:44 am #14408556
    Fred Lipari

    Participant

    Hey,
    I had a go with Apple Vision Pro and … well, it’s beautiful but is definitely not ready yet for productivity purposes.
    Virtual keyboard is sloppy, no possible connection with a mouse and the pinching way to navigate is a huge step back in the times when Mac mice had only a single button.
    On top of that, compatibility is far from ready with third parties softwares.

    I would say, let’s way the V3 version and we’ll talk then. For now, 4 grand for this piece of tech is useless for working purposes. The potential is there though, I have to admit

  • November 8, 2024 at 12:23 pm #14408597
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Thank you for your insights, Fred! I agree that this first version was just a “food in the door” so they could someday release a “v3” that will be great.

    To me, it is also similar to the iPad: So many people want to use it for a work computer, but it is really better as a “consumer” device (until you add a mouse and keyboard and external screen).

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