ok it has now been about a week and my apple goggles feedback is that there are so many parts of it that are janky but also i am deeply viscerally in love with this device.
it's reached the point where I'm starting to really love the jank because the jank means i get to watch how it comes together over the next couple years. a lot of the jank is in that people just have no idea how to make apps for this thing. it feels like early iphone and im excited to watch people figure this stuff out
@helvetica @SasquatcherGeneral @anna yes! Or ideally for me, if you can drag out the MacOS application windows at your leisure all over the place and resize as needed (aka native support). If it can adjust hi res focus on what you're looking at, it seems like the rendering requirements wouldn't be insane?
But yeah, just the multiple display thing would be amazing.
@anna @helvetica Currently? It’s the latter. There’s one window in 3D space that mirrors your Mac screen; it effectively works like a big monitor.
Because it’s doing screen mirroring, the display isn’t quite as sharp as a native app. (Absolutely useable; it’s kind of like the difference between 1080p and 4k, and not even that dramatic). Plus it’s using the Mac UI, so many UI elements aren’t designed for “look and pinch.”
@anna @helvetica I don’t want to undersell it, since it’s really good. It’s just not as cool as what you describe, where I can drag and arrange windows from my Mac into 3D space.
To me, it feels like maintaining backwards compatibility until there are more native apps. And support for apps that may never be native at the current rate, eg Xcode, Unity, Unreal, Blender, etc.
@anna i know @games_by_jack is doing this now. for me it is too heavy to be a primary thing for more than an hour and a half, but I would legit try to do it if i was traveling.
i think once it can do two external displays that is gonna be totally incredible
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