Year: 2024

How to Use your Mac with Apple Vision Pro

Dan Uff February 10, 2024 1

Learn how to use Apple Vision Pro as a private, portable 4K display for your Mac with Mac Virtual Display.

Before you begin

First, make sure your Mac meets the system requirements. You can use Mac Virtual Display with any Mac that has macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Then, check these things on your Mac and your Apple Vision Pro:

Sign in on both devices with the same Apple ID, and make sure your account has two-factor authentication turned on.
Turn on iCloud Keychain on both devices. On your Mac, go to System Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Passwords & Keychain, then turn on Sync this Mac. On your Apple Vision Pro, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Passwords & Keychain, then turn on Sync this Apple Vision Pro.
Make sure both devices have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.

Start a Mac Virtual Display session

If you have a compatible Mac laptop, you can begin a Mac Virtual Display session by looking at it. If you have a Mac desktop, start by opening Control Center.

On your Mac laptop

Make sure that your Mac laptop is open and its display is active.
While wearing Apple Vision Pro, look at your Mac laptop.
Tap the Connect button that appears in your view above your Mac laptop.

If you don't see the Connect button above your Mac laptop, follow the steps in the next section.

On your Mac desktop computer

Using Mac Virtual Display

When your Mac connects, its display appears as a window in Apple Vision Pro. Just like with all windows in your Apple Vision Pro workspace, you can pinch and drag the window bar that appears at the bottom of the window to move your Mac display and arrange it closer or farther away in space. You can also resize Mac Virtual Display by pinching and dragging the window bars that appear at either bottom corner of the window.

Use your Mac computer's built-in keyboard and trackpad, or its connected Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, to work on your Mac within Apple Vision Pro.

While you're using Mac Virtual Display, sounds from your Mac (such as notifications) will continue to come from your Mac, not from Apple Vision Pro.

Mac displays and resolution

If your Mac has multiple displays connected to it, Mac Virtual Display shows only the one that you've set as the main display.

If you have a Mac with Apple silicon, it can appear in Apple Vision Pro at resolutions up to 4K. If your Mac has an Intel processor, it can appear at resolutions up to 3K.

To adjust the resolution of your Mac display in Apple Vision Pro, go to the System Settings app on your Mac, click Displays, then choose from the available resolutions. To see more sizes, turn on Show all resolutions.

Use your Mac input devices to control Apple Vision Pro apps

When you're in a Mac Virtual Display session, you can use your Mac computer's built-in keyboard and trackpad, or its connected Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, to control Apple Vision Pro apps and content inside the Mac Virtual Display.

First, make sure that your Mac is set up right:

On your Mac, open Settings > Displays.
Tap Advanced.
Turn on Allow your pointer and keyboard to move between any nearby Mac or iPad.

Now you can move your Mac pointer out of the Mac Virtual Display window into other Apple Vision Pro windows, where you can use it to scroll and select items.

End a Mac Virtual Display session

When you're finished, tap the close button at the bottom of the Mac window to disconnect from your computer.

Via: Apple Support Website

FDA approves sleep apnea detection feature for Galaxy Watch, an industry first

CompuScoop Staff February 9, 2024 0

Our smartwatches and wearables are capable of a lot when it comes to tracking our health. However, in many cases, companies will need approval from regulatory bodies before they can roll out or promote certain features. Here in the United States, that regulatory body is usually the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and today, it issued a big win for Samsung.

Today, Samsung announced it has obtained De Novo authorization from the FDA for a sleep apnea detection feature on the Samsung Galaxy Watch. This is notable because it’s an industry first — no other consumer smartwatch has this ability, including the Apple Watch, Samsung’s main competitor in this space.

In case you’re curious, “De Novo authorization” is described by the FDA as follows:

The De Novo request provides a marketing pathway to classify novel medical devices for which general controls alone, or general and special controls, provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use, but for which there is no legally marketed predicate device.

In other words, the FDA is allowing Samsung to market the Galaxy Watch as a sleep apnea detection device because there is “reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness.”

According to a Samsung press release on the matter, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects up to 25% of men and 10% of women in the United States. OSA causes a person to temporarily stop breathing during sleep, which obviously negatively affects sleep quality and could be dangerous to a person’s overall health. OSA is also linked to cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, and stroke. Being able to detect this and then treat it could be incredibly beneficial.

Samsung Galaxy Watch sleep apnea feature: When will we see it?

According to Samsung, you’ll need a Galaxy Watch linked with a Galaxy smartphone for this sleep apnea detection feature to work. The company says it will roll this out in the third quarter of this year.

Unfortunately, Samsung wasn’t clear on which Galaxy Watch models would get this. If we had to guess, testing for this would almost certainly have been done on the most recent Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic. But we don’t know if they would be the only ones to receive it. Also, by the third quarter of this year, we expect the Galaxy Watch 7 series to launch. It is, of course, possible that testing was conducted on early models of that family, and the feature will be locked to those watches. At this point, we can only speculate.

Samsung did give some information on how this feature will work. Users will need to be over the age of 22 and wear their watch to bed for two sleep sessions of at least four hours in one ten-day period. In other words, simply track your sleep for two nights one week, and you’ll get some data on whether or not signs of OSA were detected.

Via: Android Authority

How to select multiple files in Finder on a Mac

Dan Uff February 9, 2024 0

A Mac or even a Windows user knows how to drag and drop individual files into a folder. But what if you had to drag and drop multiple files into another folder?

Here's how:

Open a Finder window.
Now select File > New Window.
Another Finder window opens.
Now go to the original Finder window.
Go to the Folder with the files you wish to move.
Click on the first file.
Now go to the last file.
Press the [SHIFT] key and then click on the last file.
All of the files are highlighted.
Drag and drop those files to the other window.
The files copy over.
That's it.

Apple TV+ sci-fi series ‘Foundation’ season 3 filming delayed

CompuScoop Staff February 9, 2024 1

The ambitious Apple TV+ sci-fi series “Foundation,” based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. But, the production of season 3 has been beset with problems.

ssues with budgeting and physical production/ prompted the delay of filming in Prague and Poland, which had been scheduled to begin this month, sources tell Deadline. Cast and crew who had already convened for the shoot were told to return home while production issues are sorted out, with the budget brought down. No new start date has been set.

This is the second time Season 3 production has been paused on the series that stars Jared Harris and Lee Pace… According to sources, the sci-fi drama filmed for several weeks in spring 2023 before shutting down due to the strike. About a third of Foundation’s third season is in the can, sources said.

Via: Deadline.com