Support for Apple Vision Pro?

edited November 18, 2023
Are there any plans for Zotero to support Apple Vision Pro / visionOS?

The Apple Vision Pro could be used like a very large external display. So by Zotero support, I mean simply the ability to browse and read papers from my Zotero library on the device. Also, the ability to add annotations with the supported hand gestures would be nice, just like one currently does with the iPad and Apple Pencil.
  • has anyone tried using the standard Zotero app we'd use on IPAD and open journals in a browser? Does Zotero see the information in the browser if using Apple Vision Pro?
  • I'd also be curious to hear if anyone has tried the Zotero iPad app on the Vision Pro. Please share your experience.
  • I’m using the iPad version of Zotero on Vision Pro, and it works great. I can even use the share function to get docs from Safari into Zotero. The only real anomaly so far is text selection for highlighting in the PDF reader - the VP text grab handles lag and seem to stutter, but still workable.
  • @archfung: That's great. Thanks for letting us know.
  • @archfung That's awesome. So PDF reading is nice already!

    Would be nice to also have nice annotation (highlighting, but also scribbles) support on the Vision Pro.
  • edited August 23, 2024
    I can confirm: Zotero on Vision Pro works fine. (latest visionOS 2 Developer Beta)

    @b0c5: Annotations, highlighting, scribbling – everything works just as expected. The latter suffers from being very useful, because drawing with fingers in mid air does not produce a pleasant outcome (at least in my case).

    You can see Zotero on visionOS in action here:

    https://share.cleanshot.com/GSKfRYYd



    But I'd love to see an option to either have multiple instances of the app (like on iPadOS; side by side). I guess this would be the easiest way to have multiple windows without having the app becoming fully native for visionOS.

  • edited August 24, 2024
    Thanks for the video! Looks great.

    Can you change the window size? Increase the width?
  • edited August 24, 2024
    @b0c5: you're welcome.

    The app is just the iPadOS version brought into the Vision Pro. You can resize the window as every other app and bring it closer/farther from you in z-space. The button floating over the top right corner switches between what is portrait/landscape mode on iPad. The aspect ration of the window is fixed to 4:3 (just as the iPad is).

    Again, it works really fine for me. The only thing I wished, is that we're able to pull up PDFs in new windows. (and then, maybe project the open windows to flat surfaces, mimicking real paper laying around on my desk)
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