Here's how to see Apple's new Mac Pro & Pro Display XR in your office with your iPhone or ...
Apple has allowed users to take advantage of augmented reality on an an iPhone or iPad to see how the new Mac Pro and Pro Display in their home or office.

Visiting Apple's store pages for the new Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR on an iOS device now features an option to view either object in augmented reality. This allows the user to drop a 3D model into their home, giving them an idea how it may look in their space.

Users must click on the "see in AR" option and follow the instructions presented on screen. This includes moving the iPhone or iPad around the area, allowing the device to scan for appropriate flat surfaces to drop the object on. We suggest trying this in a wide open area at first to get a feel for how the AR feature is going to work.
Once you successfully drop the Mac Pro or Pro Display XDR into your space, it can be moved with with one finger, shrink or grown with a pinch, or rotated with a two-finger twist.
Apple's new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR were announced on Monday, two years after Apple publicly stated they were working on it.
The Mac Pro will be able to support up to 2TB of RAM in the 28-core version, though the 12-core and 16-core will be limited to 1TB. The Mac Pro starts at $5,999 and will ship at some point in the fall.
The Pro Display XDR was designed to rival high-end reference displays. The Pro Display XDR is $5,000, with an optional stand upgrade costing an additional $1,000, and will ship in the fall.

Visiting Apple's store pages for the new Mac Pro and the Pro Display XDR on an iOS device now features an option to view either object in augmented reality. This allows the user to drop a 3D model into their home, giving them an idea how it may look in their space.

Users must click on the "see in AR" option and follow the instructions presented on screen. This includes moving the iPhone or iPad around the area, allowing the device to scan for appropriate flat surfaces to drop the object on. We suggest trying this in a wide open area at first to get a feel for how the AR feature is going to work.
Once you successfully drop the Mac Pro or Pro Display XDR into your space, it can be moved with with one finger, shrink or grown with a pinch, or rotated with a two-finger twist.
Apple's new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR were announced on Monday, two years after Apple publicly stated they were working on it.
The Mac Pro will be able to support up to 2TB of RAM in the 28-core version, though the 12-core and 16-core will be limited to 1TB. The Mac Pro starts at $5,999 and will ship at some point in the fall.
The Pro Display XDR was designed to rival high-end reference displays. The Pro Display XDR is $5,000, with an optional stand upgrade costing an additional $1,000, and will ship in the fall.
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Apple should have just incorporated the price of the stand into the monitor.
So you go right ahead and keep pounding away at your favorite negatives. Trash Apple a much as you can about the monitor stand. Bleat it out to the universe. I guess that's what you think you need to do to keep any credibility here.
(and for those of you say the early macs were expensive - back then all computers were expensive and Macs were lightyears ahead of PCs so it was a good relative value at the time. The key words are relative value. early apple - good relative value, 95-98 not so good, Steve Jobs return back to good. The lowering of relative value really started with the trashcan mac pro era 2014 onward. It has been linearly decreasing since then. I think it is safe to say all this has been on Cook's watch, similar to the Gil Amelio's bean counter strategy that killed market share and really damaged the company. I hope apple computer will survive - apple iDevices will but I am really unsure about the mac - no one I know is buying macs anymore - they are priced out.)
A machine's value is more than its components. And clearly, the new MP is more than shelf components.
We're not livid. This is a workstation, it's not for us. It's not a hobbyist or tinkerer machine. It's an ultra-highend workstation.
Try building out similar from HP or Dell.
Summary: You don't need it. You may want it, and be upset you can't afford it, but you don't need it.
It's expensive because it's a heavy-ass monitor. I use VESA arms for my heavy-ass Mac, and they were hundreds. Guess what? They still suck. They wobble, sink, and generally are janky. I doubt very much Apple's solution will be janky. And that's why it costs more. See how that works?
Pretending it's the same as some cheap plastic stand for a cheap plastic monitor is disingenuous.
But it doesnt matter because it's not for you. You won't be buying one of these ultra-highend reference monitors, period.
It's not safe to say that at all. In fact, it's outright idiotic to say that. Apple is extremely healthy, the most successful publicly traded company in history, and it's grown to stratospheric heights under Cook, not Amelio.
I'm sorry you can't afford a Mac, which starts at $799 - a bargain. No one is entitled to the highest-offerings, especially workstations, at entry-level prices.
This way they can just have 3 SKUs and the end user can spec it out as needed.
Per my memory, I paid over $5,000 for both devices.
In fact I bought a second G5 secondhand a few years ago for about $2K with the top of the line 12 core processor that was the last Apple entry for the “CG” G5. I think that computer was much more expensive than the one I purchased maybe around $5000 for the G5 alone when made in 2012?
For me the price seems fair considering that the hardware is first rate and for a machine that people will easily use for a decade.
My G5s still look modern and the build quality is spectacular compared to the devices of other manufacturers.
One is my principal computer and one is a headless iTunes server for my Apple TV.
Load them up with RAM and SSDs and they perform well. Getting decent video cards for them is really their only downside and with difficulty I was able to get cards that drive 2K in them and High Sierra.
Unlike my wife’s 2009 iMac that I replaced the HD with a SSD drive this week (with difficulty), my MacPros allow immediate tinkering to add RAM, PCI cards and drives. The cooling qualities of the computers are first rate.
It’s ridiculous to cobble together the equivalent in the PC world because frankly those computers will not get automatic software updates nor will they be as easy to service.
A thousand dollars for a stand is expensive but people waste a $1000 on other nonsense these days...tickets to sports games, airfare, purses, Hamilton tickets, rims, botox injections etc etc.
The Apple stand is a custom product for a niche market display. (Kind of like how McLaren brake pads are $1500-$9000 for a set).