Apple Pencil 3 and Apple Pencil USB-C will be used with — and have been, in part, designed for — the Vision Pro.

Hear me out.

This may be an occupationally-focused thing (I’m an English Professor.), but it is easy to get used to writing on a whiteboard (or, for those old enough to remember, blackboard) at the front of the room. It is also easy to collaborate in spaces with whiteboards (or whatever term they use for the frosted glass you find in conference spaces.

Apple features video conferencing in their promotional advertisements.

Apple has an amazing app for this in Freeform, which is on the far left of the center row in the Vision Pro Home Screen images released by Apple.

Apple has a robust conversion tool for handwriting to typing in Scribble — which presents a possible solution for those concerned with how to get text into a document with the Vision Pro using something other than an awkward floating virtual keyboard. Although I will note in passing that it appears the Vision Pro is detecting surfaces. I wonder if the keyboard can flatten out on a tabletop in the way the Photos adjusts to the ceiling (Seen at about 2:15 of “A Guided Tour Apple Vision Pro”), which makes me wonder if we won’t see virtual input surfaces for a Pencil or Virtual Keyboard that snaps to a surface to aid users who want or need that.

If so, get ready for the using Windows with Apple Vision Pro jokes as people rely on glass surfaces with their Pencils.

This is, of course, wild speculation. But we have seen artists create in 3-D with other products, as Google did with Tilt Brush. I can’t imagine that Apple will not have that kind of capability available for Developers — whether it is a next generation version of Procreate or one of the 3D modeling apps.

I’d love to know if users’ Apple Pencils show up when they are linking a Magic Keyboard or Track Pad during their setup — or if a quick tap to the side makes it appear.