--- title: "Use Your Mac with Apple Vision Pro, Anywhere — PocketRocket" description: "Bring a Mac that isn’t in the room into Apple Vision Pro: 16:9 windows up to 9600 × 5400 points, pinned in your space, over the internet." canonical: https://pocketrocket.click/en/apple-vision-pro/ lang: en updated: 2026-09-30 --- # Use your Mac with Apple Vision Pro, from anywhere A world away. Right in front of you. PocketRocket brings your whole Mac into your space⁠—even when the Mac stayed home and you didn’t. Requires visionOS 26 or later and PocketRocket Host on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26.1 or later. The PocketRocket app is coming soon to the App Store. ## Get the highlights. - Your whole Mac. In a window you can place anywhere. - From 1600 × 900 to 9600 × 5400 points. - Pinned in your space. There when you turn back. - Remembers its size for every Mac. - Displayed at 90 Hz. Streamed at up to 60 fps. - Unlock your Mac with Optic ID. ## Can I use my Mac with Apple Vision Pro when it isn’t nearby? *Out of range. Still within reach.* Yes. Mac Virtual Display is built for a Mac close by⁠—Apple requires both devices within about 10 meters (30 feet). PocketRocket connects over the internet, so your Mac at home or at the office opens in a window wherever you are. When your Mac is in the room, Mac Virtual Display is built in and excellent. ## How big can the window be? *Desk-sized to wall-sized.* Session windows are 16:9 and scale from 1600 × 900 to 9600 × 5400 points. Your Mac gets a virtual display with the same proportions, so there are no black bars, and PocketRocket remembers the size you chose for each connection. The stream runs at up to 60 frames per second, and Apple Vision Pro displays it at 90 Hz. ### Take a closer look. Drag the corner of the window, or use the slider. **Shape** 16:9, matched by the virtual display of your Mac **Smallest** 1600 × 900 points **Largest** 9600 × 5400 points **Size** Remembered for each connection **Stream** Up to 60 fps **Display** 90 Hz on Apple Vision Pro ## It stays where you put it. Pin the window in your space and look away. Your Mac is right there when you turn back. ## Another Mac. Another window. Open another Mac in another window, right from the name above the one you’re using. Each window connects to a different Mac. Mac Virtual Display connects to one Mac at a time. With PocketRocket, the Mac at home and the Mac at the office can sit side by side in your space. ## Unlocked at a glance. Save your Mac password once. It’s released only after Optic ID and typed at the login window over the encrypted connection. ## For your eyes only. While you’re connected, the displays of your Mac go dark at home, and your work appears only in Apple Vision Pro. [How the displays go dark](https://pocketrocket.click/en/host/#privacy) ## Hear it, too. The sound of your Mac streams in stereo alongside the picture, with a buffer that adapts to your connection. ## Mac Virtual Display or PocketRocket? *Nearby or far away.* Choose by where your Mac is. Mac Virtual Display is built into visionOS and macOS, offers up to 5K plus wide and ultrawide layouts, and connects to one Mac nearby. PocketRocket reaches your Mac over the internet in 16:9 windows up to 9600 × 5400 points, with PocketRocket Host installed on the Mac. | Feature | Mac Virtual Display | PocketRocket | | --- | --- | --- | | Where your Mac can be | Within about 10 meters (30 feet) | Anywhere with an internet connection | | What you install | Nothing⁠—it’s built in | PocketRocket Host on the Mac, PocketRocket on Apple Vision Pro | | Picture | Up to 5K in 16:9; Wide and Ultrawide on Apple silicon | 16:9 windows from 1600 × 900 to 9600 × 5400 points | | Sound | Mac audio in Apple Vision Pro; system sounds stay on the Mac | Mac audio in Apple Vision Pro | | Mac computers at a time | One | One per window⁠—open another Mac in another window | *Mac Virtual Display and PocketRocket, compared with Apple Support documentation. Checked September 29, 2026.2* [Mac Virtual Display over the internet?](https://pocketrocket.click/en/compare/mac-virtual-display/) ## Good to know. ### Frame rate Up to 60 frames per second, displayed at 90 Hz. ### Camera Camera sharing isn’t available on Apple Vision Pro. To lend your Mac a camera, connect from iPhone, iPad or another Mac. ### One device per Mac A Mac running PocketRocket Host serves one device at a time; a new device takes over the session. ### Controls Look at an item and pinch to click, pinch and drag to scroll, or pinch and hold to drag. Hardware keyboards are supported, too. ### Several Mac computers Open another Mac in another window; each window connects to a different Mac. ## Before you start. ### Can I use my Mac with Apple Vision Pro when the Mac is at home and I’m traveling? Yes: PocketRocket shows your Mac in a 16:9 window on Apple Vision Pro over the internet, sized from 1600 × 900 to 9600 × 5400 points and pinned in your space. Install PocketRocket Host on the Mac and PocketRocket on Apple Vision Pro, signed in to the same Apple Account. It connects over your local network, a VPN, a direct connection or a relay. ### How large can the window of my Mac be on Apple Vision Pro? From 1600 × 900 up to 9600 × 5400 points in 16:9, and PocketRocket remembers the size you chose for each connection. Your Mac gets a virtual display with the same proportions, so there are no black bars. The stream runs at up to 60 frames per second, and Apple Vision Pro displays it at 90 Hz. ### How do I control my Mac on Apple Vision Pro? Look at an item and pinch to click, pinch and drag to scroll, or pinch and hold to drag⁠—and a hardware keyboard works, too. ### Can Apple Vision Pro act as a camera for my Mac? No: camera sharing works from iPhone, iPad and Mac, not from Apple Vision Pro. To lend your Mac a camera, connect from iPhone, iPad or another Mac. ### Does Mac Virtual Display work over the internet? Not according to Apple: Mac Virtual Display needs your Mac and Apple Vision Pro within about 10 meters (30 feet) of each other. [Full answer ›](https://pocketrocket.click/en/compare/mac-virtual-display/#faq-mac-virtual-display-internet) ### Can I open two different Mac computers at the same time on one iPad? Yes: on iPad, Apple Vision Pro and Mac, each PocketRocket window can show a different Mac at the same time. [Full answer ›](https://pocketrocket.click/en/ipad/#faq-several-macs) ### Is PocketRocket end-to-end encrypted? Yes: every channel is encrypted end to end with ChaCha20-Poly1305, using fresh X25519 keys for each session, and your Mac refuses unencrypted traffic. [Full answer ›](https://pocketrocket.click/en/security/#faq-end-to-end-encrypted) ## Leave your Mac at home. Take it everywhere. 1. Install PocketRocket Host On the Mac you want to reach. It lives in the menu bar. 2. Get the PocketRocket app On iPhone, iPad, Apple Vision Pro or another Mac. 3. Tap your Mac Use the same Apple Account, and your Mac shows up on its own. PocketRocket Host needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26.1 or later. The PocketRocket app is coming soon to the App Store. ## One Mac. Four ways in. - [iPhone Your Mac fits in your pocket.](https://pocketrocket.click/en/iphone/) - [iPad Your Mac, tailored to iPad.](https://pocketrocket.click/en/ipad/) - [Apple Vision Pro A world away. Right in front of you. You’re here](https://pocketrocket.click/en/apple-vision-pro/) - [Mac Home is where your Mac is.](https://pocketrocket.click/en/mac/) [**And on your Mac: PocketRocket Host ›**The menu bar app for the Mac you connect to.](https://pocketrocket.click/en/host/) ## Footnotes 1. Unlocking works at the macOS login window and uses Automatic login in PocketRocket. Your Mac password is kept in iCloud Keychain on your device and sent only over the end-to-end encrypted connection. 2. Requirements and range of Apple features as described on support.apple.com, checked on September 29, 2026. 3. A new connection may start through the relay for its first seconds while a more direct path is prepared. 4. Each Mac serves one device at a time. Connecting from another device takes over the session.