After enabling 3D acceleration in Mac OS 11 Big Sur guest VMs Apple Vision no longer works to do optical character recognition (OCR). I've created a test application in the hopes that a VMWare Fusion engineer will see this and be able to dupe it.
- Using a Big Sur host, create a Big Sur VM.
- Run the example Apple Vision application (attached) and click "Do OCR". After a few seconds the OCR finishes and you see the resulting text.
- Shut down the VM and follow the instructions at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/81657 to enable 3D acceleration in the VM.
- Launch the VM and repeat step 2. RESULT: The OCR doesn't work. Nothing happens.
Is there a workaround besides turning off 3D acceleration. I love how smooth the VM is with it enabled but AppleVision must work for my purpose.
I've put two attachments on this post:
- A built test application, zipped. (not sure if the forum will even allow that)
- The Xcode project for the application. I'm building with Xcode 12.4 on Big Sur 11.2.2
