There was some drama on social media suggesting that you couldn’t connect an Apple Vision Pro to a desktop Mac like a Mac mini or Mac Studio. You can, but it’s not quite as simple as connecting a MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro. Here’s how to do it.
There was some drama on social media suggesting that you couldn’t connect an Apple Vision Pro to a desktop Mac like a Mac mini or Mac Studio. You can, but it’s not quite as simple as connecting a MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro. Here’s how to do it.
Among the various features of the Apple Vision Pro is its ability to show a Mac or MacBook’s screen floating in the air in front of them. While they still interact with the Mac via the passthrough view, they see the display in 3D space, one that can also be scaled in size to be bigger than the real thing.
The feature also allows users to position the display in other parts of their environment, not just in front of the Mac itself.
However, while Apple’s ecosystem means devices are deeply integrated with each other, there are quite a few things to bear in mind about the incredibly handy Mac Virtual Display feature.
Mac Virtual Display prerequisite and limitations
The first thing to remember is that you need to have a Mac running on macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It will work with both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, but it does have to be using Apple’s latest-generation operating system.
