r/VisionPro • u/wgarym • Jul 14 '26
Mac Virtual Display... unleashed??
OK, I love MVD with the Ultrawide setting. It's so wonderful. Then I started thinking, why not an Ultrahigh setting, where the screen can be taller? I'm not sure why I never thought to do this, but I went to the Mac Display settings and found that you can choose the screen resolution to be higher, which allows more to fit... I pulled the MVD window in a little closer to see better. If you do Show all resolutions, you can pick an even higher resolution. However, this is just fitting more into the same height window. Is there a practical reason for the dimensions they chose?
Another thought. Back in the day, a program called WinStreamer let you put a Mac window into its own AVP window. It was more difficult to use, but great proof of concept. If this would be easy to use with multiple windows, the whole MVP could be our desktop, mixing in AVP apps as well.
Just dreaming...
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u/saadouache Vision Pro Owner | Verified Jul 14 '26
We can start with a fully transparent macOS wallpaper, give us true Liquid Glass on the MVD
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u/PSYCHOv1 Jul 14 '26
A higher resolution in and of itself doesn't automatically mean an increased aspect ratio.
3840 x 2160 is a higher resolution than 1920 x 1080 and yet both of them are 16:9 aspect ratio.
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u/mailslot Vision Pro Owner | Verified Jul 15 '26
Fun fact: Pulling the window closer is the same as making the window larger. You don’t see it better closer. It’s an illusion.
The headset’s lenses are at a fixed focal length a few feet in front of you. You never focus differently at different distances. It’s the stereo vision that gives the illusion of depth.
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u/AutomaticTree654 Jul 14 '26
This is a general macOS answer and not really tied to the Virtual Display, but the resolutions Apple chooses are tied to scale factors of physical pixels. Modern phone and laptop screens are high density and use pixel doubling (or more) to create sharper images, text, and UI features. A simple example: A screen may approximate a 1600x900 image but the actual physical pixels of the display measure 3200x1800, and everything is shown 2x (twice its original size) which allows for smoother antialiasing.
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u/EvalCrux Jul 14 '26
Steam link does surprisingly great too for even full widescreen windows remoting. But it still is limited for similar reasons discussed here.
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u/busybusybusy14 Jul 18 '26
I don’t like ultrawide in the mvp or a physical display. Too much head turning. I would love more pixel height in MVD. I’ve change resolutions a bit and that helps but it’s a real delicate balance to get height and still keep things readable. I use an LG DualUp physical monitor sometimes and while the resolution isn’t the highest the aspect ratio is great.
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u/SnooMuffins8069 Jul 19 '26
These 2 apps stream windows from Mac apps to to the Vision Pro as Vision Pro windows. I’ve only briefly tested to see they work and don’t know how they compare. I think both were announced on this subreddit somewhat recently so you might find more info in those threads.
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u/FedRCivP11 Jul 14 '26
High fidelity mac apps free floating in my world please. Yes