Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

Agree with author that the plane seems to be the only place where it is socially acceptable to wear the skimask.

My wife still makes fun of me when I'm working at home with Vision Pro - I wouldn't wear it out in public. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836437

Can you elaborate on the working part?

I tested the device in an Apple Store and was blown away by the experience. Such an amazing tool to explore, enjoy and relax.

The work part though? I had the same feeling as with the iPad early on. I need a keyboard and a mouse to be productive.

> The work part though? I had the same feeling as with the iPad early on. I need a keyboard and a mouse to be productive.

Both my iPad Pro and my Vision Pro have a keyboard and trackpad:

- The iPad Pro of course uses the excellent Magic Keyboard.

- The Vision Pro uses an Apple keyboard w/o numpad side by side with the Magic Trackpad, in a custom tray to hold both. (Make sure that your carryon's front pocket can hold the full tray.)

For sure if I thought I could only do work on a MacBook not an iPad Pro (what most people seem to think, insisting iPad is a consumption device), then I definitely couldn't work on a Vision Pro.

But once you've figured out how to code (e.g. VSCode using blink code, or Koder, Working Copy, Textastic, etc.), do graphic design (e.g. Affinity suite), or run Office on an iPad (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), the Vision Pro does those too but with "all the app windows at once" (ofc, iPad Pro 13" makes excellent use of Stage Manager for window groups).

All that said, I haven't felt a burden to pull AVP out on the plane.

iPad Pro 13" HDR with AirPods Pro USB-C using Spatial Audio that anchors to your iPad screen seem more than enough. Especially since you can share audio with a seat mate who also has AirPods, and both watch the same movie together.

Not often talked about: for doing real work, do consider a fresh glasses prescription and the Zeiss add-ins. To keep windows rectangular instead of trapezoid, insist you're under 40 regardless of your age, otherwise Zeiss do a stealth "progressive" that warps window sizes.

I had no idea that’s what Spatial Audio meant. I thought naively that it was just another marketing jargon for surround sound.

Now I wish I had gone for the bose QC ultra buds instead of the QC II buds.