Apple will add support for wide and ultrawide Mac virtual displays with the upcoming release of visionOS 2.2 for Apple Vision Pro. This feature has already appeared in the beta.

You can currently mirror your Mac's display to Apple Vision Pro and place additional visionOS apps within your field of vision. However, the mirrored Mac display is currently limited to a 16:9 aspect ratio and 4K resolution.

With the upcoming visionOS 2.2 software update, Apple will introduce support for wide and ultrawide options for the mirrored Mac display, allowing you to choose between:
Normal (16:9)
Wide (21:9)
Ultrawide (32:9)

 Left: Wide. Right: Ultrawide
Virtual monitors for your Mac
The added capabilities essentially turn an Apple Vision Pro headset into multiple virtual monitors for your portable Macbook, perhaps making the $3500 price tag slightly easier to justify.

Apple describes the ultrawide option as "the equivalent of having two 5K displays sitting side by side".

The feature is already available in the visionOS 2.2 beta. It also requires a Mac running the macOS 15.2 beta. Apple has not specified hardware requirements, but based on user feedback, it appears to only work with Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) – not Intel-based Macs.


How it works
You can manually select between the normal, wide and ultrawide options, as shown in the video below. You can also change your surroundings to one of Apple's virtual environments such as Bora Bora.




Apple is expected to release macOS 15.2 and visionOS 2.2 publicly in early December.

 Also read: Apple TV 4K to gain support for 21:9, 2.39:1, 32:9, more aspect ratios

The next logical step would be to add the capability to run macOS apps directly in visionOS on Apple Vision Pro, but so far Apple has not made any announcements related to this.