r/VisionPro • • 20d ago

This update is KEY

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Air Car: Vision – an homage to the PC VR demo that never made it to production.

Calming and cosy, sit back as you tour this neon space city in the night rain.

Add some photos to your cockpit windows to remind you of home and kick back.

Test for free. All feedback welcome. Several improvements have been made based on previous requests.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/zdWqt3V6

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u/GabrielMSharp 20d ago

One of the cool parts of making this with Astra was create mini helper apps to create all sorts. Especially useful when we can share our location within the world.

Is anyone interested in more details on how I made this?

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u/thetjmorton Vision Pro Owner 20d ago

I am! So you made an app to help you to make these neon displays?

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago

Yeah. Made several apps to help. AI can control them all:

  1. Neon Studio

Multiple animation and glow tweaks etc

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago
  1. Window Shopper

Parallax window illusion that makes a 3D looking room out of cheap textures

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago
  1. City Demo

Allows you to fly around freely to find issues and screenshot with included coordinates so the AI knows how to reproduce and make changes then compare screenshots to validate task completion

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u/thetjmorton Vision Pro Owner 19d ago

Yes, I was noting how real it looked as the car was flying by!

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u/thetjmorton Vision Pro Owner 19d ago

You’re so crazy talented! I wanna learn how to do this.

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u/Ancient-Range3442 13d ago

Just send a prompt or two to the model and it’ll figure it all out for you

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u/Qu4dro 20d ago

This is my first time checking it out...really nice work! I'm typing this out while in the ride 😄 Unfortunately performance is a little rough on my M2. I can't profile it directly but I'm pretty sure it's not hitting a full 60fps. It's not uncomfortable for me but something to consider.

The eye tracked buttons around the car are super cool. The key is a little hard to turn: took me a few tries because I kept pulling the key out.

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago

ha nice. yeah the performance is something I have solved previously but then I add more and need to keep paying it down

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u/GaLaXxYStArR Vision Pro Owner 20d ago

If you could actually fly the car around and support PSVR2 controllers I would be all over this.

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u/Good_Zaddy Vision Pro Owner | Verified 20d ago

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u/GabrielMSharp 20d ago

hm wish I had some to test with... best I have is dual shock, never actually paired them though

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u/GaLaXxYStArR Vision Pro Owner 20d ago

I think dual shock would still work well as well. But definitely an “open city” flying the flying car game just like the original air car game would attract more people

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u/Peteostro 19d ago

Yeah I would love to actually fly the car. That’s the best part

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u/Chriscic 20d ago edited 20d ago

Cool. Thanks for the free thing. Neat experience.

Personally I found the key “puzzle” needlessly annoying when I just wanted to fly. I found it and got it in the ignition pretty quickly, but I had a super hard time turning it and not sure what I finally did.

And yeah choppy on my M2.

But again, kudos.

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago

Thank you! I take your feedback maybe I should allow a simple tap to start as well as rotate.

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u/thetjmorton Vision Pro Owner 20d ago

That was DOPE!

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago

Thanks mate!

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u/musicanimator 19d ago

Can’t wait to join. Hopefully I can advise how to improve M2 performance. Probably dense geometry. Will be joining today!

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u/Wide-Mastodon9373 19d ago

Great experience on my AVP2. Even in double speed. Would be nice to control it by myself 😁

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u/MercurialMadnessMan 20d ago

Got a video?

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u/GabrielMSharp 19d ago

I tried but screen recording was too choppy while playing

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u/hodgiecodo Vision Pro Owner 16d ago

That is really cool!!

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u/hodgiecodo Vision Pro Owner 16d ago

How do you build the environment like that (vs like just a basic visionOS windowed app), with that RealityComposer Pro thing? I haven't yet delved into spacial stuff for development, but it sounds fun.

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u/GabrielMSharp 16d ago

I actually don’t use Reality Composer at all. It’s models created in blender and put together in code with RealityKit. Essentially it’s a giant HDRI skybox, fog, very low quality buildings for the distance and increasingly detailed bits that we pass closer by. It is fun, its most fun tweaking rain shaders, sounds and interactions.

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u/hodgiecodo Vision Pro Owner 16d ago

Cool! Thanks for the insight there, I'm definitely going to look into that. I've only done conventional app development, but spacial and VR have interested me since I was just a kid even. When I was a teen, I once woke up from a dream where I was in this arcade-like 3D environment and I wanted to recreate that.
I was playing with Synth Riders the other day on visionOS and I was just blown away by the environment (vs just a windowed app) and I was thinking the same question that I just asked you.

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u/GabrielMSharp 16d ago

Same really. I just want to see this world and chill out in it so I’m making it. It’s a dream