The new Mac Virtual Display modes make the Vision Pro a much more useful productivity tool. Photo: HWZ
Along with iOS 18.2, Apple also released visionOS 2.2. This second major update to visionOS 2 adds the eagerly-anticipated Ultrawide feature to the Vision Pro’s Mac Virtual Display feature.
To recap, Mac Virtual Display lets users cast their Mac’s screen within the Vision Pro as if it were a Vision Pro app. The upside to this is that you can use your Mac with a virtual display and make it any size you want. Furthermore, it also lets you use your Mac with absolute privacy.
But it has its quirks and flaws. Even though you can make it as big as you, it’s still just one display, and that’s not the same as working with two displays. Happily, visionOS 2.2 fixes this by adding new Wide and Ultrawide options to Mac Virtual Display.
An example of the Mac Virtual Display in the Ultrawide mode. The screenshot appears blurry because the Vision Pro uses a technique called foveated rendering to display images. The way it renders also makes it extremely difficult to take a perfectly straight image. This is why so many Vision Pro screenshots are crooked. Photo: HWZ
Wide gives you a 21:9 display with a resolution of around 6720 x 2880 pixels, whereas Ultrawide gives you the equivalent of a 32:9 display with a resolution of 10240 x 2880 pixels. This is the same as having two 5K displays side by side.
Aside from the added flexibility to place your working windows, it’s stunning to see an ultrawide 32:9 virtual display floating in space. What’s more, you can resize it however you want, so the end result can be impressive, or hilarious. I can engulf my entire living room with the Ultrawide virtual display.
I’m hesitant to call this new feature a killer app, but it’s certainly one that’s very much welcomed, especially for power users like myself who are used to and prefer working with multiple monitors. This makes the Vision Pro a considerably more valuable and helpful productivity tool. I can totally see owners packing Vision Pros on work trips just so that they can work with two 5K monitors side by side.
To update your Vision Pro to visionOS 2.2, simply go to the Settings app, then General, and finally go to Software Update.
Read my Vision Pro review here.
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