You don’t need to join the paid Apple Developer Program, but you will have to accept the terms of the Apple Developer Agreement. You don’t need to join the paid Apple Developer Program, but you will need to accept the terms of the Apple Developer Agreement.
You then navigate to Settings -> General -> Software Update -> Beta Updates in your headset and select “visionOS Developer Beta”.
Note that installing a beta version of an operating system is only recommended if you’re willing to accept bugs, instability, and the small chance it could put your device in a state requiring a factory reset. Some apps may even stop working. In exchange, you’ll get to try out the new features and improvements in advance.
Since launch, Apple Vision Pro has been able to replace your physical Mac screen with a giant virtual display. You can do this by looking at your MacBook, clicking the floating virtual buttons that appear, or using Control Center on a desktop Mac. Apple’s software creates an almost instant wireless connection, so you can use the headset without a WiFI network. If you do have one, you will not experience any issues with congestion. Because of this, and because the experience has high quality and low latency, we strongly praised Mac Virtual Display in
.Apple Developer CenterUntil now though, Mac Virtual Display has been limited to a 16:9 widescreen virtual display. Apple revealed at WWDC 24, earlier this year that visionOS 2.2 allows you to choose between a wide aspect ratio or an ultrawide panoramic experience. Apple explained that this is possible thanks to foveation, where eye tracking is used to prioritize resolution in the region of the screen you’re currently looking at. This is possible because foveation prioritizes resolution in the area of the screen that you are currently viewing. Apple’s wide and ultrawide Mac Virtual Display modes are a different take on the PC monitor extension approach than what we’ve seen from
and
, as well as the third-party apps available for Quest, or other competing headsets such as the-
and the-our review of Vision Pro.