Microsoft OneNote was made accessible for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional on Tuesday. The cloud-based note-taking app will now assist Imaginative and prescient Professional’s augmented actuality (AR) and digital actuality (VR) environments, permitting customers an immersive expertise. The app will supply each hands-free note-taking by utilizing speech mode and typing by way of the digital keyboard and finger-tracking sensors. Notably, earlier this 12 months, Zoom launched an app suitable with the mixed-reality headset with assist for Apple’s Personas characteristic in addition to expandable digital assembly rooms.
The announcement was made by Greg MacEachern, Product Supervisor at Microsoft in a weblog submit, the place he mentioned, “Immediately, we’re introducing the most recent member of the OneNote household, on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional[..]You possibly can plan journeys, apply day by day habits, and create/edit your job checklist, all in spatial actuality – the OneNote expertise on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional helps you keep productive, regardless of the place you’re.”
Like different apps designed for Apple’s blended actuality headset, the OneNote app will even assist AR and VR environments. Which means customers can open the app floating in the course of the room — at a measurement they’d like — or open it in a just about created house. The app will even assist each speech and digital keyboard assist. Moreover, Microsoft has mentioned that a number of options supplied within the iPad model of the app will even be accessible for Imaginative and prescient Professional customers.
Nevertheless, there aren’t any different distinctive options for the brand new platform. Customers will be capable to use all the usual options equivalent to writing memos, taking single-sheet notes, and making a digital pocket book. OneNote additionally permits customers to spotlight textual content and add tags to notes for simpler detection. Additional, passwords may also be added to notes, making them safer.
Microsoft’s OneNote additionally provides sharing capabilities and cloud-syncing options. Nevertheless, a few of the options are solely accessible to its paid subscribers. The tech large mentioned that it’s going to embody extra platform-specific options sooner or later. A few of these options embody inserting from digital camera and photographs, Copilot integration, two-factor authentication, and extra. There isn’t a timeline for when these options might be added.