Apple Seeds Third Beta of visionOS 2.2 to Developers With Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display

Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming visionOS 2.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a week after the second visionOS 2.2 beta.

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visionOS 2.2 can be installed by going to the Software Update section of the Settings app on the Vision Pro and opting into Beta Updates.

The visionOS 2.2 update adds a new feature for the Mac Virtual Display option, allowing it to be set to Wide and Ultrawide. The Ultrawide setting is equivalent to two 4K displays side-by-side, and it is a notable improvement over the current Mac Virtual Display that's available in visionOS 2.1.

The Mac Virtual Display allows the Vision Pro to be connected to a Mac with the Vision Pro serving as the display for the machine. The virtual Mac desktop works just like a standard desktop with an external display, but Vision Pro does not support multiple displays. As a solution, Apple has added the option for a wider display to maximize space.

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Top Rated Comments

ikiwi84 Avatar
13 months ago
Cancelled? This is is now my day to day work setup?
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iHeading Avatar
13 months ago

Wasn’t this product cancelled?
Your birth should’ve been cancelled..
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
taxilian Avatar
13 months ago
I've been using this for about a week (so I'm confused about the report that it dropped today – don't know of any reason I would have gotten it early) and it's *fantastic*. As a web software engineer I always have multiple wide displays and this is almost as good.

It's not uncommon for me to have a messaging/chat window, a documentation window, a browser with what I'm working on, and two code windows (frontend, backend) open at the same time – and having a lot of screen real-estate allows that and is much more efficient than swapping between things all the time. I've experimented with the things that try to make individual windows into "native windows" on the vision pro and they just don't work well, the paradigm doesn't work nearly as well.

The only thing I wish is that it could be treated as two displays stitched together instead of one ultra-wide display – things that span the entire width of the screen are awkward to use, like a terminal attached to slide from the top, the dock, or the menu bar. With multiple monitors these things are either only on one monitor or else are on all of them (the dock and menu bar), meaning it's much less moving the mouse around to get to it.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AndreDC Avatar
13 months ago

Been trying to get a definitive answer this for awhile if anyone can answer—if you have dual monitors with windows open on both monitors, since Mac Virtual Display only shows your main display (according to Apple support doc) but all monitors get turned off when MVD is activated (I believe), what happens to the windows open on your secondary display? Does the secondary display get moved to a different desktop Space on your main Virtual Display? Do all open windows get moved to your main Virtual Display on the same desktop Space?
My standard setup is laptop screen as 'main' and two external monitors on the left & right.
When I connect using the Vision pro it blacks out all three screens - laptop and the two external displays. All windows that I had open are put onto the main display but it isnt in the order I had them. it sort of groups them together in a way which is saved for that one big display (the ultrawide). So it treats it really as though you unplugged the three monitors and plugged in a new big one.

Also out of interest I can close the laptop, once I have connected, and it doesnt affect anything.

I have to say... it's really smooth. My favourite feature.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Amazing Iceman Avatar
13 months ago

That Ultrawide feature is what I've been looking forward to the most. ?

Like yes, please, let me put a truly ridiculous amount of windows next to each other for no good reason... that's peak productivity right there. :cool:
I do like the feature, but my main focus is on using apps that are native to the Vision Pro.
UWD is a nice addition, but not the main reason to have it.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
diddl14 Avatar
13 months ago

only Apple keyboards will show through. A third party keyboard may appear if you also have an Apple keyboard connected, even if it’s not visible. very odd…
Had this with my Apple Magic Keyboard. New MVP beta fixed it. Writing this now from Bora Bora ?️
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Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)