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by outside415 855 days ago
I have a couple of different places that I live right now because of RTO (my house, an apartment near my office, a vacation home). My house has the best desk set up, it doesn't make sense for me to reproduce it else where.

So at the apartment/vacation home I can have a desk set up as compelling through using my macbook with it. then I have a bunch of apps up in 3d space around it (teams, outlook, photos, safar/spotify, safari/tradingview). I sit on top of Haleakala in full immersion while I work now.

as I walk around the house I have different windows open, for intance at my kitchen table I have twitter and another safari browser for hackernews/googlenews.

I've also found a fun use for it is to demo it for different friends/friend groups, so I have a little demo I run them through for it taking spatial photos/videos, viewing panoramic photos, viewing spatial photos, then I show them other apps based on what I know about them, NBA app, apple tv + immersive videos, and show them fun configurations for having so many apps open.

also around the house it has mostly replaced my doom-scrolling on my phone. my eyes are getting older so cruising around stuff on my phone is getting harder/blurrier.

I mostly look at it as a replacement for my phone at home and a complimentary piece to my macbook.

still really lacking overall in apps so doing more than I would like in Safari. I really also wish there were more apps to take advantage of 3d space. like imagine health/strava where you can scroll through the run and and it has a 3d map to show you where you went, and charts of a 3d plane with all of your health metrics that you can tab through and move through/select with your fingers.

there's a lot of potential here imo.