Apple announced a wave of new productivity and collaboration updates to its Vision Pro augmented reality headset during its 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote speech.
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The release of Apple’s next Vision Pro operating system, VisionOS 2, will unlock new enterprise features, including an ultrawide Mac display and mouse and keyboard support.
As part of Apple’s keynote, Mike Rockwell, VP of Vision Products Group at Apple, reinforced the company’s long-running message of the Apple Vision Pro as an enterprise productivity tool:
Apple Vision Pro and VisionOS unlock completely new possibilities for entertainment, productivity, collaboration, and so much more."
"Vision Pro has inspired developers to create amazing and unique spatial apps that aren’t possible on any other platform."
Rockwell continues: “[You can] bring your data to life with SAP, and doctors can even reimagine surgical simulation and planning.”
Coming Soon to Vision Pro
The new ultrawide virtual display feature is arguably the biggest productivity update, giving users a huge space that can fit multiple windows, effectively eliminating the time lost switching between tabs.
Haley Allen, Director of visionOS Program Management at Apple, gave a sense of what to expect: “People love Mac virtual display. Later this year it gets even better with higher resolution and size, and it can be expanded even further into an ultra-wide display that wraps around you, equivalent to two 4K monitors.”
VisionOS 2 will offer mouse support for the Vision Pro, which was bizarrely absent from the initial launch of the Vision Pro.
In addition, a physical keyboard is due to be added, which will naturally be a major productivity boost for AR device users.
