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by ethbr1 783 days ago
What do you do wearing a Vision Pro in your yard?
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I'm still mostly surrounded by large 2D panels of information (Xcode, Safari, terminal windows, etc.). I do fill the space with these panels. It's not uncommon for me to have 5-6 things around my Mac's virtual display.

I've been on a quest to maximize my flow state for over a decade, it's been a terrible beast to tame with my ADHD. I'm finding the Vision Pro helps because of the intuitive nature of the UI. My brain expects the thing I'm looking at to be the thing that receives input, and this is naturally the case in VisionOS.

I'm also having a ton of fun learning Swift and RealityKit, something I likely would never have picked up if it wasn't for this iPad strapped to my face.

How do you find coding outside different?

Honestly curious, as it's been more distracting to me, the times I've tried it in 2D form.

The Vision Pro takes away all the glare you'd normally get on a screen, and (to me) that basically reduces the distractions down to zero. If I need fewer distractions still, I'll pull up one of the environments (I like the moon!) and then all visual noise is drowned out entirely.
So you use it for web surfing?
While working it's a combination of web surfing, terminals and documentation in PDF form. When I'm not working, watching movies on the thing is an absolute treat and Moonlight works pretty flawlessly for large-screen gaming.