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The thing I don't get about spacial computing is: why?

I feel like being able to see everything open at once would be incredibly distracting. I like how I can swipe between app screens on my desktop so that I'm only focusing on one app at a time.

Of course I imagine there are some applications where it's useful, but to me it just feels like the Apple Vision Pro is just a very large screen and they haven't quite figured out what to do with it.

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It's the same reason (some) people love multiple monitors and don't find it distracting. In fact, I feel extremely limited on just 1 or even 2 monitors. I'm hoping that the 4k virtual monitor in AVP will suffice and with windowing tools I think it will since it can be so much larger.

> I like how I can swipe between app screens on my desktop so that I'm only focusing on one app at a time.

You can shove the app into a corner of your room, out of your view, and it will be there when you walk over to that corner later. That's part of the idea of "spatial computing" - if we can associate computer objects with real locations in space, maybe we can better harness spatial memory and stuff like that when we interact with them.

It is interesting, I do regularly use Immersed in which I have total freedom to place windows any size anywhere I want in 3d space. Do you know what I end up doing mostly? Snapping them into the fixed 3 monitor layout in front of me just like they are physical monitors. It turns out, the way we set up physical monitors is actually how we want the virtual ones too .... what a surprise!

I've been a skeptic of VR/AR since Occulus launched. I'm still skeptical after reading the reviews.

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