A "long gaze" exists in the Apple Vision Pro???

Actually, yes! There are a few places that already have the ability to be interacted with using a longer gaze, but not as many as you would think. And when you start looking critically at how that interaction style could be used, there are a lot of places where a long gaze would enhance the interaction with the Apple Vision Pro to make it more effective and efficient.

If you know the secret, demonstrating spatial experiences to remote users can be really impactful and straight forward. Part of the magic is the Reflector 4 app for the Mac that allows you to send the Apple Vision Pro display into a window on the Mac that can then be shared with your favorite video meeting tool. It's a great way to bring remote folks into your spatial experiences.

Sharing spatial app experiences with others who aren't Apple Vision Pro equipped during this time of discovery is so important. Here's a run through of how to do a simple Apple Vision Pro app demo or presentation using Zoom - and the limitations you'll run into (with Zoom).

This is part of a two-part series: The other video shows how to give an awesome demo of a spatial app to remote participants using the Apple Vision Pro and your Mac.

What's one amazing benefit to flying with the Apple Vision Pro?Brian Mila gives us two!

1. He can take a 40" monitor with him on the plane, which allows him to be 100% productive during flights.

2. He has 100% security from other people being able to see his screen when he is working with confidential or proprietary information.

Bonus item: The ability to be in a fully immersed environment might help some people who have fear of flying, but it also might be less helpful for people who have trouble with motion sickness.

To make this work, you need to run this command on your Mac laptop to prevent the laptop from sleeping when you close it (unless you have power to plug it in):

"sudo pmset disablesleep 1"

What extra skills are needed to transition from a UX designer to a spatial designer?Not as many as you might think! In this segment, Brian Mila talks about what skills allow designers to flourish in a spatial design setting, with particular attention to the new skills that designers need to be able to work hand-in-hand with developers to decrease the time spent to get to high-quality outputs for the Apple Vision Pro.In the video, Brian references his skills matrix that he uses to track his team’s design skills, which you can read more about here:

https://medium.com/@brian.mila/tuning-up-employee-performance-7e5335e596d

‍And here is Brian's Figma template if you’d like to create your own skill matrix:

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1141

How can designers work hand-in-hand with developers to create faster iterations for Apple Vision Pro development?In the second segment of this three-part series, Brian Mila talks about some of the challenges and solutions we came up with to give our designers and developers equal footing when creating Vision Pro apps. He starts by flipping the design-development process, starting with development first instead of design 🤯. In addition he uses a tool called Judo which gives designers superpowers for speed to design and control over final design output!

https://www.judo.app/

What tools and skills are needed to design for spatial computing and the Apple Vision Pro?We started asking that question ourselves and realized it wasn’t just a question of toolset and skills; our entire design process needed to adapt! This is part 1 of a 3 part series exploring how we retooled and reskilled ourselves to deliver enterprise Apple Vision Pro apps faster than we ever could with mobile apps.Here are some helpful WWDC videos we found valuable to get started:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10073/

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10078/

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10072/

Touchable apps in Spatial Computing give the Apple Vision Pro unique opportunities for new types of interactions. Directly manipulating content and apps with our hands in the spatial environment feels very natural and is something our enterprise teams will need to start exploring.

Common enterprise thinking - "The Apple Vision Pro is cool! What do we do with it?”This is a question I'm frequently hearing from leaders who are contemplating the Vision Pro and where it fits the enterprise. Here are some example of high value uses we're seeing:• Learning & training• Productivity• Guided work• Sales enablement & team engagement• Remote experts

Continuing the conversation around guided work in spatial computing, a few folks commented essentially -- "Cool, but how does it really work?" Here's a deeper dive into Lextech's guided work efforts on the Apple Vision Pro. Bringing 3D elements into the environment is impressive, but I'm really intrigued by the opportunities of 'touchable' spatial experiences. To help 'keep it real', this video does away with the immersive background to show the room.

A key use case for spatial computing in the enterprise is guided work. The Apple Vision Pro can empower technicians and other high-value workers with everything they need to prep for work, and keep their hands free while having instant access to whatever they might need to know in the moment. The Lextech crew is super excited about the solid innovations we're seeing come to life for teams that frequently don't have great tech tools to support them.

The Apple Vision Pro personas keep getting better and are bringing an interesting take on conversation equity where the participant's environment and what they're wearing that day don't get in the way of great interactions (and we don't have to rely on poor background image replacement). Every VisionOS update appears to bump up the quality of the personas to a new level - the eyes in the latest are really good.

Lextech has released its first public Apple Vision Pro app: Persona Mirror. Put yourself on screen for recording demos, practicing presentations or just checking out your Persona in super size. Go grab your free copy and keep yourself in view when you need it.

I often hear "what is the difference between VR & Spatial Computing"? Next up in Lextech's 30 days of Apple Vision Pro for the Enterprise is a simple example of how VR and spatial computing differ (hint, they're exact opposites - one takes me somewhere else via tech, the other brings tech to where I physically am).

Apple's spatial computing beautifully merges multiple devices into a single fluid work environment. Having my Mac screen and Vision Pro windows set up in a single work experience is already magical and going to quickly replace my 4-monitor setup -- and I can move around with it.

Do I really need to try the Apple Vision Pro to understand it? YES! This is not an evolution of VR, this is very different. VR transports you somewhere else, Spatial Computing brings resources, tools and apps into your current environment. Even if you're not planning to buy one, go get a demo at an Apple Store to really understand it.

The parallels between the first iPhone release and the Apple Vision Pro launch are very striking. Both entered a 'crowded' market of apparently similar devices while making very different product decisions than the current players. I expect the Apple Vision Pro is going to rapidly prove out the value of this innovative thinking in the enterprise the same way the original iPhone did.

The Lextech team and I will be sharing 30 days of Apple Vision Pro insights with examples to show Spatial Computing's enterprise impact. If you have questions or topic suggestions, chime in and we'll address them along the way! It's 2008 all over again...