# Tableau Dashboard in the Apple Vision Pro

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-08-22
- **Format:** Video · 12 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Industry trends, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, mobile, public, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-dashboard-in-the-apple-vision-pro
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDK2lmpX5ak

I take a Tableau dashboard into the Apple Vision Pro and walk through what it's actually like to view and interact with visualisations in that headset. I cover why the web authoring experience is blocked on mobile devices, demonstrate an immersive environment, and stress-test the gesture-based interaction on a few public vizzes and the Superstore dashboard.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau web authoring is blocked on devices the platform treats as mobile, so you can't edit workbooks or flows in the Vision Pro browser, and the Tableau Mobile app hasn't been enabled for the device either.
- The Vision Pro lets you scale a viz up to wall size or pull it right up close, and Apple keeps the relative proportions sharp at any distance, which surfaces how detailed a visualisation really is.
- Eye-tracking makes the headset highlight your actual focal points as you scan a chart, mirroring research Tableau has done on where people look.
- Interaction relies on eye gaze plus pinch gestures and direct touch, which works but is jittery and imprecise on dense canvas elements, so large buttons and dedicated UI controls behave far better than clicking individual data points.
- Apple's 'presence' feature lets you fade in an immersive environment, placing a multi-metre viz in a completely different space rather than just mirroring a flat screen.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why web authoring is blocked on mobile
- 0:47 Browsing Tableau Public in the headset
- 1:25 Lisa Trescott's birthday viz and blog
- 3:04 Eye tracking and recording jitter
- 4:21 Immersive environment and presence
- 5:26 Interacting with the viz by gaze and touch
- 8:24 Other public vizzes and scaling
- 9:39 Superstore dashboard interaction
- 11:37 Tableau Mobile app not supported

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-dashboard-in-the-apple-vision-pro

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