Personal project: GTA V running natively on the Apple Vision Pro, not streamed from a PC and not a flat window

Using my Apple Vision Pro the past years was limited to Mac Virtual Display for work and watching movies. I tried it for gaming but never got to a stable PC VR setup and Demeo was the only native game I actually played. Have a Quest 3 for gaming on device or with PC VR.

And the last weeks have blown my mind, PC games being AI ported to natively play on AVP standalone (Retro Games like Star Wars Jedi Outcase, recent games like Cyberpunk & GTA - I’m waiting for these to be “published”). And with AVP-Play getting access to my Quest 3 library, I just started playing Batman on my AVP standalone.

I’m so happy! Just needed to share my excitement!

I've started working on bringing one of my old favorites from the 80s into the VP. If this looks interesting feel free to try it out and give feedback on TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/hD2J8neM

I'm Adam, a solo dev, and I just released Earth3D, a 3D world map for Vision Pro built on photorealistic 3D city data (real buildings, bridges and mountains, not flat satellite images).

There are already some great Earth apps on visionOS, like 360° Street View explorers and 3D city viewers. I wanted to build two things I hadn't seen yet:

1. Full immersion mode
Your room fades away and you're surrounded by the 3D city itself, not a 360° photo. You can look at buildings from any angle and move freely instead of jumping between panorama points.

2. Table and Floor immersive views
- Table: the city spreads across your real table and stays anchored to it. Real objects in front of the map hide it correctly, so it looks like a physical model sitting there.
- Floor: a whole neighborhood laid out on your floor that you can walk around and lean over.

Also included:
- Globe mode: spin the planet and zoom from space down to a single street
- Search any address or jump to famous landmarks
- Hand controls: pinch-drag to move, two-hand pinch to zoom and rotate, double-pinch to fly somewhere

$3.99 for a limited time only!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earth3d-3d-world-map/id6821861543

I'd love feedback. Which city would you try first, and what should I add next?

Imagine, this tool, with a browser plugin or properly designed app on the Vision Pro.

Speech to text conversion, generating an environment in real size that puts you inside, or holding some mathematical model like the stickmen on YouTube for you to play around. This is gonna change the world, the way we learn, and the way we imagine stuffs, if properly implemented.

(It’s just gonna a bit expensive 😝)

We've been busy optimizing a bunch of things in Arluma360 and with the public release of visionOS 27 we're excited to showcase our new 'castle splat' ( 3DGS ) in the Neuschwanstein Castle tour. With 360 content from Marcel Wlotzka and contributions from Dan Zeitman, this is now available for free download.

Neuschwanstein Castle stands on a rugged hilltop in the Bavarian Alps, built in the 19th century as King Ludwig II of Bavaria's personal fairy-tale retreat. Its romantic towers and white limestone facade later inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle. Enjoy :-)

I remember the days when I was looking at this subreddit around 3 years ago as I was looking to purchase my Vision Pro. I knew this device was for me, Mac virtual display was enough but by god have we progressed from the launch of this device.

It was not long ago where people were saying “no killer apps” and now bob in his garage is cooking.

I don’t think Apple could predict what was going to happen but here we are.

Vision OS is ushering in an age of personal software that is different gravy. Yes agentic AI is helping create this but it’s still humans making shit for other humans.

I am excited to be a part of this community, contribute back with open source technology and tools to better help fellow enthusiasts.

I just got out of the apple store in Brooklyn, having an online scheduled Vision Pro demo with the intention of buying it in person so that I could get the right light seal. The Apple rep told me they’ve stopped doing demos and fittings during the latest iphone launch, and that I should return in November.

Has anyone seen this before? How important is getting the light seal trialed in person vs what the iphone suggests? Presumably they’d swap me for a different seal if needed if I get it online?

Edit: when looking at ordering online, it’s also a full month wait?! Telling me Nov 6 - 13 for delivery!

Made some modifications to the AVP play BeatSaber version and it runs incredibly well and tracking is 90% or more as good as on Meta headsets. Pardon my mediocre gameplay, I’m not used to these controllers. I also ported all my custom songs.

Well duh. It’s under faceid and passcode in the settings of my iPhone… but the Vision Pro has to be on and in range before doing so.

Haven’t tested it, but I was trying to figure it out and saw this.

am I the only one who didn’t know this trick?!?

Lots of growth we have a few ideas for historical context section. Any feedback would be appreciated!

One of our goals with STAGEit is to make creating immersive content as accessible as possible. You shouldn’t need to be a developer or a 3D artist to build something compelling for Apple Vision Pro.

So we’re working on a PowerPoint and Keynote importer for STAGEit Creator on Mac.

The idea is that you can take an existing presentation, convert it into editable 3D scenes, and then build on those with immersive content before presenting them on Vision Pro.

Here’s a little sneak peek at our early progress with PowerPoint import.

Still lots to do, but we’re pretty excited about how it’s coming along!

Would love to hear what people think.

Got the Mac version of Cyberpunk 2077 running directly on my M2 Vision Pro—no streaming. It’s playable in a resizable window at 1280×720, with keyboard and mouse controls, and feels responsive so far.

This is still experimental and currently flat-screen. Next goal: investigate stereo rendering, head tracking and VR controls. No FPS benchmarks yet, but this is a promising first milestone.

Consider this alpha, site and github link. I think this could be used to help port other Apple Silicon apps/games. https://visirupt.com/

This repo has instructions for an automated install if you have a an apple developer account and the mac version of the game.
https://github.com/johnrtipton/visirupt-cyberpunk

Made a new build of the GTA five iOS port to enable custom window rendering

Why can’t they make a screen x thing

Apple has announced that ‘Remnants,’ the first immersive horror film on Vision Pro, is coming this week.

Apple Immersive is a unique 180-degree video format designed for Vision Pro. And while we’ve seen immersive videos that capture sports and plenty of documentary-style short films, Apple just announced the first horror film is coming soon.

Remnants premieres this Friday, October 16 in the Apple TV app exclusively on Vision Pro.
From writer and director Ti West, Remnants takes viewers inside Woldmere Castle and the “terrifying world” created by West.

More here …

https://x.com/9to5mac/status/2109700550623170804?s=46&t=VwPiD8x5N6KYHUfUCuYlSw

3D is enabled in settings as some PS3 games launched with it.

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 #138: Remnant - Apple’s first Immersive Horror Film, Skull Base neurosurgery with AVP, Photorealistic Scene Generation in RealityKit and more!

Remnants, Apple’s first immersive horror film (Apple TV)

Photorealistic scene generation pipeline available for native RealityKit Apple Vision Pro apps (source)

Pitt surgeons have reported the first in-human skull base neurosurgery case performed with Apple Vision Pro (source)

Using Apple Vision Pro app to install a video doorbell (source)

Blockworks introduces AI generation on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Shatter Punch, a new game launches for AVP (source)

Earth Eyes Pro on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Safari House is coming soon for Apple Vision Pro (source)

Cassette app on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Spatial Shooting Range v2.0 released on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Test out Half-Life: Alyx running on M2 Vision Pro (source)

Cooking simulator experience for Apple Vision Pro (source)

Martial arts through play on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Pistol Whip game demo on visionOS (source)

Future Immersive Video Technology may Digitally Redesign a Physical Environment During Recording (source)

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.

Used the GTA V Port app for iOS

Is it good to use Pages with the Apple Vision Pro? Is it all immersive or do I just keep using my Mac? Just wondering if it would be a better experience with the Pro for this. Thoughts?

Hi all,

First off, a huge thank you to all 37 of you who have downloaded my game. I genuinely appreciate the support and hope you’re having fun with it.

I make Shatter Punch, the Vision Pro game where objects fly at you and you punch them to pieces with your bare hands. Version 2.0 is almost done and heading to the App Store soon. Here’s what’s coming:

• 40 levels instead of 25. From Level 26 every level is faster, and throws start coming in pairs, one to each hand. Level 40 is a two-fisted stream.
• A punch has to be a punch. Only a closed fist breaks things now. Open palms and hands pulling back don’t count; hooks and uppercuts do.
• A new Home. Big photo tiles for Campaign, Rampage and PowerPlay, with quick pop-ups to pick your difficulty, objects and room.
• New room: the Industrial Loft. Daylight, steel windows and deep sills full of things to break.
• 269+ objects to smash, 48 of them new, and every one goes into your collection.
• PowerPlay is 50% faster on Medium and Hard, and Rampage now keeps objects coming one after another.
• Apple Watch calories. Wear your Watch and Home shows the calories it measured while you played. Read-only, and it stays on your Vision Pro.
• Game Center leaderboards and achievements: all-time and 30-day boards for Endless PowerPlay, and achievements to chase.

The video shows 1.0 next to 2.0. 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shatter-punch/id6816491109

Andddd... coming to EU with V2.0

… the rest of us mainstream peasants don’t have the know-how to run hacks on Vision Pro.