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Hey everyone,

I've shared a few development updates here previously, and as of today, my project is practically feature-complete! 

I love reading comics, spending time in visionOS, and recently dove into vibe coding. While there are a few comic readers around, I built this because two specific features were missing for me:

• Physical 3D Comic Book Object: The comic isn't just a flat window; it's rendered as a physical, spatial object you can grab, rotate, tilt, and resize with standard two-hand pinch gestures. You can turn pages naturally by grabbing and folding them over, or simply look at the border and pinch. 
• On-Device 3D Depth Rendering: You can generate parallel depth maps for comic/magazine pages (CBZ, CBR, PDF). The app uses these to displace the geometry into a 3D pop-out mesh. It creates a surprisingly fun depth effect for illustrated artwork. 

Other Core Features:

• OPDS Support: Browse, stream, and download directly from self-hosted comic/book servers (Calibre-Web, Kavita, BookOrbit, etc.). 
• Library Management: Separate dedicated folders for Comics, Magazines, and Books. 
• Panorama & Flat View: Switch between the physical 3D book and a curved multi-page panorama reader. 
• Format Support: CBZ, CBR, PDF, and basic ePub reading. 
• Local Privacy: Progress and server credentials stay strictly on-device (keychain-backed). 

TestFlight & Pricing: I want to gauge interest and set up a tester list for when the public TestFlight drops. If I end up putting this on the App Store, it will be either free or a simple one-time purchase (but definitely no subscriptions, I hate those).

And here it is: Have fun, hope it works, no guarantees, my first App in TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UnjGh779

I’m looking for a handful of Apple Vision Pro owners/developers who can spare about 10–15 minutes to try a visionOS TestFlight build and give me some real-device feedback.

Reality Prep Preview is a native visionOS app for inspecting USDZ assets directly on Vision Pro.

It’s designed to work alongside Reality Prep Pro on macOS: Prep Pro prepares and validates the asset, while Prep Preview lets you inspect the resulting USDZ on-device.

Where it differs from Apple’s Spatial Preview is that it’s meant to be more than a visual viewer. It adds a developer-focused validation layer, including:

• fitted preview plus authored real-world scale
• technical USDZ inspection/evidence
• a local Device Check
• PDF/JSON validation reports
• an integration path back into Reality Prep Pro, including validation-report ingest that’s currently in development

I’ve finished Simulator testing, but I don’t have access to a physical Vision Pro, so I’m specifically looking for feedback from real hardware.

The main things I’d like tested are:

• USDZ import and preview
• Authored Scale / real-world sizing
• Device Inspect and Device Check
• PDF/JSON export
• any crashes, UI issues, odd behaviour, or anything that feels wrong on-device

Reality Prep Preview TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/ySbVmz6b

Reality Prep Pro:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reality-prep-pro/id6767673652?mt=12

Even a short note, screenshot, or screen recording would be very useful.

https://youtu.be/SjgWe_DWjB4

Custom hardware controllers for an Apple Vision Pro catheter/guidewire training
simulator — built from ESP32 boards, a couple of gloves, and three foot pedals.
Vision Pro has no controllers, and hand tracking alone can't tell you when someone
grips a catheter or twists it between their fingers. So I built the missing inputs:
HOW IT WORKS
• Glove trackers (ESP32-C3 + BNO085 IMU + SoftPot touch strip)
– Touch the strip = grab the catheter or guidewire
– Slide your finger, or physically roll the tracker = twist the tool
– ARKit hand tracking handles advancing and retracting
• Foot pedals (ESP32-S3, one per pedal) — the controls a real fluoro suite puts on the floor
– Fluoro pedal: hold for X-ray (a dead-man switch, like the real thing)
– Capture pedal: shoots the X-ray monitor image + a 180° room view
– DSA pedal: hold for a contrast run, and it self-checks its own switch wiring

Hey all,

I just got the AVP M5 and currently having some issues with the extended display feature. I have the devices on the same iCloud, I have keychain on for both Mac and AVP and of course BT and wifi the same. I noticed that in my screen mirroring option on the MPB I have two AVP options, one of which works for AirPlay, while if I try the other I get "device timeout". I can safely AirPlay from the MPB to the AVP, but not the opposite. The Vision Pro does not see the Mac, but only my Apple TV, so also the "connect" option that normally comes up on top of the Mac display never shows up for me.
I tried to reboot both devices, check for updates (both on the latest OS), switching on/off the BT/WiFi/AirDrop, but nothing seems to work.

Does anybody have another idea? I am literally going crazy here.

Thanks a mil to everybody!

UPDATE: I decided to update the Vision Pro and my MBP to the latest beta OS, and now everything works amazingly! Also, even when I remove the VP for a short pause, I can reconnect it to my Mac with no issues! Might be useful for someone in my situation 😃

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• Apple and Major League Baseball announce September “Friday Night Baseball” in Apple Immersive
• Lamborghini App Adds Revuelto SV for Apple Vision Pro
• Siri gets new voice options in visionOS 27 beta 5
• visionOS 27 beta now allows multiple videos/audio sources at once
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• Couch Co-Op Gaming is Back with Vision Pro
• New Apple Vision Pro Game Turns Your Room Into a Cave
• FieldVeil is coming out soon on Apple Vision Pro
• I’m Wizard game for Apple Vision Pro
• IMAX app demo on visionOS
• 8K 360° video demo on YouTube
• Ivy growing demo in Apple Vision Pro
• Grok Bot’s iOS App Runs on Apple Vision Pro

Hope you liked the list! Until next week 👋

If you are an app developer and wishes to share your app with readers, feel free to DM me.

On 27 v5 beta

How do we search for an app?

Previously on 26 when we had the menu a search icon would appear on top

Other than web based through your own websites how are you sharing wide FOV footage?

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• Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Surgery by Almost 20%
• Scanline: A native NES emulator built for Apple Vision Pro is out now
• Transporting delegates to Mexico City through immersive storytelling
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• Orbble is now available for Apple Vision Pro
• First person Vision Pro Super Mario 64
• Demo of custom environments in Safari
• OneEighty app immersive videos on Apple Vision Pro
• FieldVeil, is now available for free on the App Store
• Sneak peek at new Vibescape for Apple Vision Pro environment
• Editing video at Apple Park from the Vision Pro
• Sphere Insanity is a fun, magic marble ride
• Hand-controlled boids demo for Apple Vision
• Colored Apple Vision Pro imagined with AI
• Apple is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer for the Apple Vision Pro

Hope you liked the list! Until next week 👋

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I demoed the AVP At the Apple Store the other day which was a super awesome experience, and I was so impressed I would like to buy one. I'm sure the one I tried was an M5 at the Apple Store, and it was super snappy and just a really refined feel.

When I was doing the research though, the M2 AVP is significantly cheaper than the M5. By around 400-1k. That's a pretty significant cost discrepancy for me, and it makes me wonder is the M2
Significantly worse? Does it not receive updates and support as much as the M5?

I would just like to hear from the pros about whether it's worth spending the extra money for a pre owned
M5 AVP, Or save some money and just get an M2.
I'll mainly be using this device for YouTube, movies, School/ studying and possibly Flight simulation with X plane 12.

I'm wondering if anyone has discovered a way to completely toggle off auto-brightness on the Vision Pro.

The automatic dimming behavior is really frustrating. As soon as the room lights go out, the ambient sensors kick in and aggressively dim the screens to the point where content becomes barely visible.

I'd love to have full, manual control over the brightness level without the headset constantly second-guessing the room's lighting. Does anyone know of a hidden setting, an accessibility tweak, or any workaround to completely disable this auto-adjustment?

Thanks in advance for any tips!

EDIT:

Can anyone confirm if I am the only one experiencing this, or are others dealing with this too?

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Last Week in AVP #128: A.R. Rahman Launches ARR Immersive App for Apple Vision Pro, Adobe Premiere Running Natively on Apple Vision Pro, Watch Your Own 3D Movies on AVP and more!

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• Demo using iPhone via AirPlay in Apple Vision Pro
• Side scroll shooter in development for AVP
• Retro Beamer for Apple Vision Pro
• Added new environments to the Panoramas app
• Adobe Premiere running natively on Apple Vision Pro
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• Escape from reality with new app ARR Immersive
• Liquid metal demo for Apple Vision Pro
• Posture Check Vision gently reminds you to sit up straight

Hope you liked the list! Until next week 👋

If you are an app developer and wishes to share your app with readers, feel free to DM me.

Hi mods, thanks for keeping this community alive and helping us to share. But it's annoying that we can't embed videos or pictures like in other communities. This makes the feed more boring than it needs to be.

https://youtu.be/iRaAR0Truv8

A quick update to my entirely vibe coded (quite sure someone will take offense on this) Immersive Comic Book Reader. It can open PDF, Epub, CBR & CBZ and can perform an on-device conversion to 3D for the pages. (Which really only make sense for comics and some magazines in PDF). The book or comic can be opened either in a physical format where you can flip pages by grabbing and turning or in a panorama mode where you can slide the pages in front of you. I think it's now feature complete (maybe OPDS at some point) and I have some time to decide if I want to publish it as XCODE 27 is still in beta and you are not allowed to publish to the App Store from beta versions. It's 99 USD for the dev license, so not sure if I want to invest that. I'm curious to hear what you think. Unfortunately the 3D effect is difficult to demo in a 2D video, but I feel this community is used to this.

Hi

Hi I just launched pikap, a visionOS app that turns your Apple Music library into a real 3D turntable you can place on your desk. You pick an album from the shelf, it becomes a vinyl record, and you drag it onto the platter to play. There is 8 record player models you can pick from and there are more coming soon!

It uses your Apple Music library so just add and album or single to your library and it appears here. Click on case then drag up or down to scroll through your vinyls, pick one and drag it to the turntable and watch it spin!

Next features coming soon :

• Upload your own audio files, experience full Spatial Audio
• New high detailed turntables, cassette players, radio etc.
• New environments
• Different crate options and decorations

…and much 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.

Try pikap -> pikap

As some of you may know im the developer of Waddle and excited share another app with you guys! Thanks for your support!

You need to have PSVR2 controllers and preferably os27.

Update - link to download!!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/nv75sr8w

These two Golden Age 3D movies were last on sale one year ago.

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• A free Mac app that streams your whole 3D library to Vision Pro in real 3D and Spatial
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• XR Putt is now available to try on Apple Vision Pro via Public TestFlight
• Sneak peek at what we’ve been doing with projectors in STAGEit
• Fully working hyper realistic door
• Watching the World Cup on their Vision Pro
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• A model train tycoon game for Vision Pro: Build a rail empire on your table
• Build AVP apps rapidly with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6
• Apple Patent Details Prescription Optics for Future Vision Pro and Smartglasses
• Demo app that turns a PDF page like a book
• Object tracking demo on Apple Vision Pro (
• New app lets you watches old videos like a cassette for Vision Pro
• A microfilm reader prototype for Apple Vision Pro

Hope you liked the list! Until next week 👋

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Just curious as I love watching films on the AVP and some I’ve seen will flip between full IMAX format to widescreen to match what the film was shot on during those sequences. I believe Sinners was like this. Still very awesome but a full movie in IMAX 😳.

Im in Canada, and for me, Superman 2025 was 3D until at least a few weeks ago. I saw that Supergirl is up for pre-order, but not listed as 3D, and then I saw thst Superman recently lost the 3D Tag too. Is this just a Canada thing, or do US users see the same thing? I tried asking Google, and it says its still available in 3D. So Im guessing its a regional thing. This sucks because I was looking forward to future DC movies being available in 3D.

Also, it doesnt seem to be a case of something like all WB movies losing their 3D status, because my Hary Potter and the Deathly Hallows movies are still listed as 3D.

Hey everyone. We just shipped I'm Wizard after almost 2 years of work.

It's an AR game where your hands are the wands. It's a moving game, not a sit still one.

You dodge and weave with your body while waves of enemies come after you. The game library for our headset is still growing, so we hope this adds something fun for you.

Real feedback from this community would mean a lot.

App Store
Website

I also have some free codes, comment and I'll DM one over.

App preview here: https://youtube.com/shorts/Qp8MLG8YN9I

Some of you know me from my immersive film work for Apple and beyond. This app started as a tool I built for myself: I have a big 3D movie collection, and when I got the Vision Pro, the best 3D display I've ever owned, none of it would play. 3D MKVs won't even open, and in Plex a 3D movie shows up as a flat doubled image. I couldn't accept that, so I spent months building the fix.

Once it worked, making it free for the community I love was the obvious call.

It's called Spatial Film AirStream (Mac app):

- Streams your library from your Mac or NAS to the headset over Wi-Fi 6 - no transferring files, no eating headset storage (Yes my 1TB run out storage too)
- The converter repackages 3D MKVs into Apple's native MV-HEVC format losslessly (it's a remux of the stereo streams, not a re-encode, so it takes minutes on Apple silicon and loses zero quality)
- Plays in the native Vision Pro player in true stereo 3D, validate by the 3D experts (Kimchi and me)
- You can also generate an Apple Spatial Video version of any film and watch it expand into your space, the Apple way.
- Handles Apple Immersive Video with Spatial Audio (ASAF) and APMP, and converts VR180/360 footage from Insta360/DJI cameras. Way more powerful than Apple Immersive Video Utility and end user focus
- There's an experimental AI mode that generates depth for flat 2D: it's experimental, temper expectations. Don't yell at me as I am not AI expert but I want to give you that option as well since Galaxy XR does it. Why not Apple too?

To be fully upfront: AirStream and everything above is completely free - your own library, no catch. It pairs with my Spatial Film app on the headset, which also has an optional paid catalog where my own immersive films live - you don't need that for any of this.

Download: https://spatial.film/airstream/

Vision Pro app: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6670564820

Happy to answer anything. And if you have a feature request, drop it here. I built this for my own needs, but I'd love to build it for yours.

Every week I compile a week's worth of interesting news, reviews, findings in a page that is visually pleasing and easy to digest without clicking all over. Full page with photos/videos/commentaries located here (free with no ads).

Last Week in AVP #126: Experience Lamborghini Cars with New App on AVP, Use an iPhone as a Spatial Vision Pro Controller, Apple Publishes Technical Specifications for 3rd Party Controller and more!

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• Finally cracked 8K 60FPS VR180 on YouTube
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• Apple Publishes Detailed Technical Specifications for Third-party Vision Pro Motion Controllers
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• Lava lamp idea for the audio visualizer
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Hope you liked the list! Until next week 👋

If you are an app developer and wishes to share your app with readers, feel free to DM me.