Apple Vision Pro

Nanome on Apple Vision Pro is a beta. It opens the same workspaces as Nanome XR on Quest and Nanome Web, with its menus in a visionOS window and the structures in the space around you.

Get the betaThrough TestFlight.Log inUsername and password, or a new account.GesturesLook and pinch to grab and scale.The Nanome windowComponents, Workspaces, Settings and Scenes.Compared with QuestWhat the Vision Pro beta has and leaves out.

Get the beta

The beta installs through Apple TestFlight. Getting Started has the steps, under Apple Vision Pro.

Log in

Nanome opens on a login window.

• UsernameYour Nanome username.
• PasswordYour Nanome password.
• Remember meKeeps you signed in.
• Log InSigns in. Progress and errors show just above the button.
• Create AccountOpens a sign-up form: email, username, password, the kind of organization (Classroom, Academic Lab, National Research Lab, Commercial Company or Other), an optional company or institution, and a newsletter switch.

The window also shows the app version. There's no Code tab: signing in with a code from another device works in Nanome XR on the other headsets.

Gestures

Vision Pro uses the visionOS pinch. The Controls page covers the same gestures for every headset.

• Look and pinchLooking at a structure and pinching grabs the workspace, and moving the hand moves it.
• Reach and pinchReaching out and pinching a structure directly does the same.
• Pinch with both handsScales and rotates the workspace.
• Position MoleculesWith the switch on, a pinch moves one structure on its own.

The window's buttons work like any visionOS window: looking at a button and pinching presses it.

The Nanome window

The window has 3 columns: the sidebar on the left, the open tab in the middle and Scenes on the right. The top line names the loaded workspace, or reads No Workspace Loaded.

• ComponentsThe structures in the workspace. Available once a workspace is loaded.
• WorkspacesProjects and workspaces.
• SettingsApp info, server, version and Log Out.
• Load StructureLoads a structure from the RCSB by its 4-character PDB code. Available once a workspace is loaded.
• OnlineAt the bottom: reads Offline when the headset has no internet connection.

Components tab

The structures in the workspace, each with its components. The Position Molecules switch at the top lets structures be moved one by one.

Each structure's row has these buttons:

• EyeHides or shows the structure. A structure with no components shows a plus instead, which adds the default components.
• Previous, Play, NextFor structures with several models or frames, with a frame count. Long-pressing Play picks a speed: ×1, ×2, ×5, ×10 or ×20. Only you and the people following you see the playback.
• ZoomBrings the structure into view.
• MoreRename, Duplicate, Delete (after a confirmation), Copy Entry Position and Copy Components. Under Structure Actions: Reset Components, Reset Position and Remove Interaction Components.

Each component sits under its structure, with 2 buttons:

• EyeHides or shows the component.
• MoreRename, Remove, Copy Component and Duplicate to Entry.

Copy Entry Position, Copy Components and Copy Component copy to other scenes: a sheet picks the scenes, with All and None.

Workspaces tab

A switch at the top shows Projects or Workspaces. Projects can be filtered by name, and opening one lists its workspaces.

• Name, Owner, ModifiedThe columns of the workspace list.
• NewCreates a workspace.
• LoadOpens the selected workspace.
• MoreInfo, Duplicate, Rename (with edit access) and Leave. Leave asks first, because access only comes back with a new invitation.

Settings tab

• App InfoThe app version and the addresses of the servers Nanome talks to: Router API, Accounts API, Workspace API and MARA.
• ServerSwitches between servers. Appears only when server switching is available.
• Log OutBelow the version number.

Scenes

The right column lists the workspace's scenes, with the current one's number out of the total.

• PlusAdds a scene.
• ArrowsGo to the previous or next scene.
• GearRecenter Self, Set scene POV, and Enable or Disable Scene POVs.
• MoreOn a scene: Rename, Duplicate, Copy Scene POV and Delete.

Compared with Quest

	Quest	Vision Pro beta
Grab, move and scale	Yes	Yes
Log in with a code	Yes	No
Load a structure by PDB code	Yes	Yes
Projects and workspaces	Yes, plus Join by code and Load for All	Open, create, duplicate, rename, leave
Show, hide and copy components	Yes	Yes
Change a component's style or colors	Yes	No
Ligands tab	Yes	No
Tools Panel (Pointer, Selection, Measurement and the rest)	Yes	No
Scenes	Yes, plus recordings and Spotlight	Add, rename, duplicate, delete, POVs
Users tab, sharing and mic	Yes	No
MARA	Yes	No
Comments	Yes	No
Wrist Menu	Yes	No