The devil is in the details. If you can only mirror your laptop screen, it's not that useful, unless you can run Vision native apps next to it. Then I only have to mirror my laptop for laptop only stuff and can run things like Safari and Notes and Mail all the other stuff separately.
If I can set up vision as a 100 inch 8K external monitor, then that becomes much more interesting, because with that much screen real estate I don't need multiple monitors.
They showed in the demos mixing your desktop screen with native visionOS apps so I'm pretty sure this will be possible. It will be really cool if Apple allows a "Coherence"-type mode (a la Parallels) to pull macOS windows themselves into your space and not just a 2D pane that mirrors your desktop. Even if I can only create some virtual monitors in 3D I'm sold. I'm writing this on a MacBook running 3 external monitors right now and I bought a duplicate setup for my parents house when I had to stay there for about a month for some medical treatments for my dog (closest place that did the procedure) because I didn't want to lose my productivity (also wanted to make it easier to visit them regularly without worrying about work productivity). Being able to just grab my laptop and my Vision Pro would be amazing and would open up travel to way more places.
It better do more than project monitors. I’ll use it if the whole space around me is one big monitor for overlapping app windows. I want to throw my open apps in a pile to my right, shuffle through them to find what I need, push them all to the side to work on something else, and probably do the virtual equivalent of those meme conspiracy pins-and-string research boards.
Can confirm. I watched some of their developer videos for how to design apps, and it showed multiple safari windows side by side (though never more than two, equidistant from each other - no actual indication yet that we can overlap them). And it looks like we can push them farther away - though that will resize the apps, not just make them smaller.
Could actually be exactly what I've been hoping for since the first real VR stuff came out 10 years ago.
It has the M2. Apple says it works with select iPad apps in addition to its own App Store down the line. Apple just recently made FCP & Logic available on the iPad. I think the direction is clear.
Even if multiple virtual monitors isn't supported today, it's the sort of thing which could be entirely solvable in software.
From the way it's described, realityOS seems more equivalent to an iPad Pro than a MacBook. Many people don't need anything more than a powerful iPad in order to be productive. So the built-in computer would be sufficient on its own. (Or at the very least, sufficient for many secondary screen tasks such as email, calls, notifications, monitoring, etc.)
Which means you'll also have to lug your MacBook around in order to use it on the go, and you won't be able to have your 3 monitors, just the one.