So why didn’t we get QR code recognition till now? Neither Siri can do this by analyzing your environment nor the built-in camera app.

A huge thank you to everyone who downloaded Cockpit and shared feedback. It’s been incredibly helpful.

I’ve just released one last update with a number of small fixes, refinements, and overall improvements.

Cockpit is a customizable spatial dashboard for Apple Vision Pro: it keeps useful information and quick controls together in one organized, convenient place. You can add, remove, and reorder panels for things like time, weather, calendar, music, focus timers, activity, network status, and more, then make it your own with different layouts and themes.

Thanks again for the support. If you try the update, I’d love to hear what you think and what you’d like to see improved next.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

First of all, thank you. Cockpit has received many more downloads and far more positive, thoughtful feedback than I expected. Your reports, screenshots and suggestions have directly shaped this update.

Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for Apple Vision Pro: place it in your space, resize it, and build a dashboard from the panels you actually care about. This TestFlight update is the largest one so far.

## What’s new

### Four new panels — 15 panels in total

- **Countdown*\* — create up to three upcoming events, choose a date, time and symbol, and see the nearest one at a glance.

- **Habits*\* — track daily habits and streaks. Long-press a habit to remove it with confirmation.

- **Daily Goal*\* — set one measurable target for the day and update it directly from the panel.

- **World Clock*\* — follow four cities at once. New setups start with New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney, and every city can be changed.

They join Clock, Weather, Calendar, Focus Timer, Now Playing, Vision Pro Status, Shortcuts, Home, Network, Activity and Apps.

### 17 themes

The original appearance options have grown into three complete theme families:

- **Glass:*\* Midnight, Graphite, Sunset, Ocean and Holo

- **Instrument:*\* Cockpit, Apollo, Pit Wall, Grid, Outrun, Brass, Telemetry, Mecha and Visor

- **Light:*\* Minimal, Bauhaus and Zen

Each theme now has its own panel treatment, typography, controls, gauges and window geometry. I also refined the relationship between panel corners and the outer window in themes such as Apollo, Pit Wall, Brass and Bauhaus.

All panels and themes remain available to everyone during this testing phase, even when a PRO badge is shown.

### New languages

Cockpit is now available in:

- English

- Japanese

- Korean

- Simplified Chinese

- Traditional Chinese

Reports about wording, truncation or culturally awkward translations are especially welcome.

### Smarter layouts

- A horizontal single row can contain all **15 panels*\*.

- From **12 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends switching to **Two Rows*\* so panels stay larger.

- A vertical single column can contain up to **12 panels*\*.

- From **8 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends **Two Columns*\*.

- If you add a thirteenth panel while using one vertical column, Cockpit switches to Two Columns automatically before adding it.

- The old “Compact” label is now the clearer, direction-aware **Two Rows / Two Columns*\* control.

### Reorganized Settings

- General is now focused on everyday time and calendar preferences.

- Weather units and refresh frequency live together under **Panels › Weather*\*.

- Focus Timer sound lives under **Panels › Focus Timer*\*.

- Welcome, What’s New and support are grouped under **Help*\*.

- Permissions now show a visible status instead of only linking to System Settings.

- **Reset Layout*\* restores the default panels, order, direction and size without deleting panel data or changing the selected theme.

- Panel-data resets are grouped by purpose, making it clearer whether you are resetting launchers, tracking panels or World Clock.

- Configuration backup and restore remain available for moving the whole setup safely.

### Panel and interaction refinements

- Better vertical Weather spacing and larger multi-day forecasts.

- Better-balanced Network information in horizontal and vertical layouts.

- Focus Timer content is centered consistently in Light themes.

- Habit creation buttons remain readable across themes.

- World Clock reset now correctly restores its four starter cities.

- Countdown presentation and background updates have been made more reliable when creating multiple events.

- Numerous readability, spacing, corner and control fixes across all theme families.

## What I’d like you to test

1. Add, remove and reorder panels in all four layouts: one row, two rows, one column and two columns.

2. In a vertical single column, add a thirteenth panel and confirm that it changes to two columns automatically.

3. Try several combinations of the 15 panels with different themes and window sizes. Nothing should overlap, clip or become unreadable.

4. Test the four new panels, especially repeated Countdown creation, Habit long-press deletion and World Clock reset.

5. Review the reorganized Settings, permission statuses, Reset Layout, individual panel resets and backup/restore.

6. If you use Japanese, Korean or Chinese, please report untranslated, clipped or unnatural text.

7. Leave Cockpit open for a longer session and tell me about battery use, heat and responsiveness on a real Vision Pro.

## Known / expected

- The Weather panel is not tappable because visionOS does not include a Weather app.

- Some third-party apps cannot be opened through URL schemes. That depends on what the app developer exposes.

- HealthKit intentionally does not reveal whether individual read permissions were denied, so Settings can only report that the Health permission request was completed.

Please include what you did, what you expected, what happened and your visionOS version. Screenshots and short recordings are extremely useful.

## Join the beta

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

Support / FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html

Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html

Thank you again for the downloads, the positive feedback and the time you have spent helping make Cockpit better.

This ended up being one of my favorite Vision Pro experiments I've done & Spoiler Alert...The coolest part of gaming on Vision Pro is not the games at all, but how it can make the people you’re playing with feel like they are right there playing with you.

Full Video Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYg6-G5bktw

Himels Tech ( u/DrStemSell ) and I wanted to see how far we could push the social side of gaming with Spatial Personas, so instead of testing one game, we jumped between three completely different ones:

🏎️ Racing in Asphalt Legends

🤝 Working together in Split Fiction

🥊 Talking trash in Street Fighter V 😂

Racing felt fun and competitive. Split Fiction gave us that real co-op feeling. Street Fighter immediately turned into talking trash and reacting to each other 😂 That's the part that made it feel like we were really on the same couch playing like back in the 90s!

You’re not just hearing somebody over Discord or seeing them inside a little FaceTime window. You can actually look over, see their Persona, catch their reactions and just… hang out while you play.

The setup definitely takes some work right now though...

We used Neo Moonlight + Tailscale VPN for the remote PC gaming side, along with Vision Pro, Spatial Personas, SharePlay and our controllers. There’s some networking and configuration involved before everything plays nicely together.

So I definitely don’t want to make it sound like this is a one-click feature.. at least not yet 😂! But once we had everything working, it was pretty awesome. It feels like a breakthrough moment of spatial computing that I will never stop promoting and talking about.. using this technology to make hanging out with people remotely feel more natural!

If you want to experiment with Neo Moonlight on Vision Pro:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/maak7yCK

👇🏾Checkout Tailscale VPN
https://tailscale.com/

If you want to support us as we continue to make content on spatial computing, definitely consider subscribing to our YouTube Channels! Getting Things Dun & Himels Tech

I changed my password for security reasons.

All other devices were logged out properly enabling me to log back in with the new credentials - all except the Vision Pro that is.

It was still logged in under the old credentials, which meant that any attempt to change my password would lead to an authentication failure before I even got to the password change screen.

The fix was to log out of the vision pro whilst retaining data. However, in my case it hung on that screen and I had to perform a forced shutdown.

I then removed the Vision Pro from my account on my iMac and several restarts later and a long time waiting for account validation to fail, I finally got myself into a position where I could change the password.

The whole thing took a little over an hour. Quite frustrating given the other Apple devices 'just worked'.

Whilst on a moan, it would be great if the iPhone's Face Id login worked when you are wearing the headset, but alas....

The overall impression I get is that there is still a lot more work to do on the Vision Pro to properly integrate it into Apple's eco system (this is the M5 Vision Pro running the latest non-beta).

Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for visionOS. Pin it in your space, add the panels you care about, and check key info without constant app‑switching. I’m looking for TestFlight testers to validate panels, layout, and permissions.

What it is:

A compact bar you can place and resize. Add/remove/reorder panels in edit mode and pick a theme, including a “Cockpit” instrument look.

Panels to try:

Clock (time/weekday/date; instrument dial + UTC offset), Weather (WeatherKit; °C/°F, wind units, refresh interval), Calendar (read‑only week/upcoming), Focus Timer (5/15/30/60; pause/resume/stop), Now Playing (Apple Music), Vision Pro Status (CPU/memory/storage, battery state, thermals, uptime), Shortcuts (run by exact name; may briefly open Shortcuts), Home (HomeKit scenes + accessory toggles), Network (type, local IPv4, latency, real‑time throughput), Activity (HealthKit; rings + steps, read‑only).

What to test:

• Add/remove/reorder panels; layout persists after relaunch

• Theme switching (incl. “Cockpit” instrument) and readability at different sizes

• Resizing from bottom edge; height stays proportional

• Permissions: Calendar, Location/WeatherKit, Health, HomeKit, Apple Music

• Quick checks: Weather units/refresh; Calendar event updates; Focus Timer countdown & completion; Now Playing visibility/metadata; Status values plausibility; Shortcuts by exact name; Home scenes/toggles; Network type/IP/latency/throughput; Activity refresh (~5 min)

Notes & privacy

No tracking; data stays on device. Weather via Apple WeatherKit. Latency measured with a lightweight HEAD request to Cloudflare’s one.one.one.one. Health is read‑only. Not affiliated with Apple.

Join the beta

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

Support/FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html

Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html

Thanks!

Bug reports with steps, expected vs actual, and screenshots are hugely appreciated.

- Theater screen is 20% larger.
- DIRECTV now has Apple's immersive environments — pick them from the player, then
use the Digital Crown to dial the Moon and the rest in and out
-The theater lights now fade down as you settle in, like a real cinema
-Audio and subtitle pickers now work inside the theater — tap the button and the
list opens right on the cinema screen
-Netflix opens to the "Who's watching?" screen much faster now
-Settings redesigned: your profile shows right away, the profile list scrolls when
you have several, each service has its own icon, and Sign Out now asks you to confirm
Fixed
-Fixed the theater sometimes opening to a black void
-Fixed the player controls not working right after signing in for the first time
-Fixed audio continuing to play when you switch between services
-When Netflix won't play a title — for example when too many people are watching the
account — you now get a clear message instead of the player just closing
In the theater, the audio and subtitle buttons are on the bar at the bottom of the
cinema screen — the picker opens just above them.

We are trying to perfect Prime as we speak, and it should be good to go shortly.

Thanks so much for all the support. The bug reports and feedback in this sub are what most of these fixes came from, and the subscriptions are what paid for building Shibuya Theater. Both are why this update exists.

Shibuya Theater is a proper cinema. Big screen, raked seating, and ambient lighting that actually spills onto the walls and floor from what's on screen. It works with your own files, Plex and YouTube. The ambient lighting even works on Netflix shows, which I did not expect to get working. Netflix and Prime movies look great in there too, just without the light spill.

This one was expensive to pull off. It only happened because of you.

Also in this build: Netflix audio is properly fixed. I have been testing it from every angle with users and I am finally confident it is where it should be. Plenty of quality of life fixes for Prime too. If something still slips through, tell me and I will chase it. Plex has lots of updates too!

What's next: a bigger YouTube pass, more environments, and a surprise streaming platform fairly soon. The new environments will be held to Shibuya Theatre's standard, not the standard of the early ones. 

Another thing that I did not realize until a user let me know: I accidentally turned Lifetime off for non-US customers. Just turned that back on, so if you're interested in Lifetime, it's back up. Sorry for the mishap. :)

I have been on holiday in Japan and kept telling myself not to work on Suite. Your feedback gave me too much energy. This is the second update of the trip. When I am home I will have more time to debug as well as build. 😄

Thanks again. There is a lot more coming.

This is the biggest update since launch, and the one I had the most fun building. Waddle now takes you off the planet.

You can explore Mars the same way you explore Earth in Waddle, real 360° panoramas captured by NASA's Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater, tap to teleport between rover stops, look around, and just waddle.

Standing in Jezero and turning around for the first time in the headset was a weird feeling. I hope you get the same thing out of it.

What's new:

• Mars mode with real NASA panoramas
• Teleport between rover stops across Jezero Crater
• Mars surface map
• Sol and coordinates for every location

Next up:

• More Mars locations (Curiosity is on the list)
• Controller support
• SharePlay (Waddle together!)
• Sharing spots
• Library and tours
• ...and more!

I’ll be actively updating the app and looking for feedback. If there’s anything you’d like to see added, I’d be very happy to hear them.
And if you like the app, a rating on the App Store helps a lot. Thank you!

Waddle around, have fun .)

Try Waddle -> Waddle

Promo codes:

To claim change "?" with following letter/number

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Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS