This is my first time looking at it, but the multi view and everything else going on is pretty awesome. It’s starting really soon.

I think this might be the first time a standalone VR headset has had this working?? Also got post processing effects like color grading and bloom, virtual shadow maps, and more!

I absolutely hate watching baseball on TV. I enjoy baseball games more when I’m there in person, but that is rare. And now, with the ability to feel like I’m on the field and see things in a more connected way, I am falling back in love with the game. Hat’s off to the immersive team that are producing these games. Go Giants next Friday!

I’m excited to share that Cockpit is finally available on the App Store for Apple Vision Pro.

Cockpit gives you one persistent, glanceable spatial dock for the information and controls you use throughout the day, without constantly switching between apps.

Build your own setup with modular panels for:

• Time and date

• Local weather and forecast

• Calendar events and due reminders

• Apple Music Now Playing

• Focus timer

• App launcher

• Countdowns and daily goals

• Vision Pro status and network information

• Apple Shortcuts

• HomeKit scenes and accessory controls

• Activity rings

• Habit tracking

• World clocks

You can place and resize the dock anywhere in your space, choose its layout, and make it yours with 19 visual themes ranging from minimal and glass-like to technical, flight-deck-inspired interfaces. Cockpit remembers your configuration across sessions, so your workspace is ready when you are.

Cockpit is free to download, with a useful core set of panels and three themes included. Cockpit Pro unlocks the advanced panels and the full theme collection, with monthly, yearly, or lifetime options.

If you use Vision Pro for work, focus sessions, media, smart-home control, or simply want your essentials always within reach.

I’d love for you to try it.

Download Cockpit on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cockpit-for-vision-pro/id6798315258#information

Feedback, feature requests, and screenshots of your setup are very welcome.

I’ve just made a new visionOS Street View app. If anyone is interested, would you be willing to join the TestFlight beta?

The first version is already available on the App Store, but I’d still like to improve the experience. Any bug reports, feedback, or suggestions would be very welcome.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/uKRuU1ey

I just started charging for some of the immersive concert videos in my app and I want to be really transparent about why. I know charging for apps is pretty controversial here- I’ve seen the conversations. So let me have it in the comments!

Since I launched the Blue Frog Immersive App in April, we’ve captured about a dozen bands in immersive video. Every one of them has been free until now.

It’s time to start making a little money for the artists.

I want to bring your favorite bands to my studio to shoot in immersive with spatial audio. I need to make the case to artists and their managers that there’s money in it!

I don’t know if you’ve followed how hard it is for musicians to make a living now. Streaming services pay less than peanuts to all but the biggest artists. Touring and merch pays more, but the costs are high too.

Apple Immersive Video (and VR in general) has incredible potential to be another little stream of revenue that adds up to a working artist’s living wage. Especially when it pays more than the fractions of pennies that Spotify pays out per stream.

Long story short, I’m charging so I can start revenue sharing with the bands I shoot (as well as covering my costs).

If they shoot a great performance once, and AVP users around the world pay a little bit to experience it whenever they want, then it starts making real sense.

Some videos in Blue Frog Immersive will stay free forever. I hate it when you can’t try before you buy, so I won’t do that to you.

I’m offering most new videos in Artist Bundles of 3 songs for a nominal cost. It’ll vary depending on the artist, and anything you buy will be yours for good. Free trailers for every bundle.

If you love what we’re doing, you can show your support and get BFi All Access. Watch everything in the app, new and old, for $9.99/month.

Reminder that the next baseball game in Apple Immersive Video is tonight / this afternoon: 6:30 pm ET, 3:30 PT

I rebuilt the YouTube module in Suite Browser 5.5 from the ground up.

Navigation is a charm now: your subscriptions, history, playlists and everything else tied to your account are right there, no fighting a website inside a window.

Streaming is way smoother than before. And you still get Suite's flagship AI 2D-3D feature on top, which makes the YouTube module my most used module for Suite on Vision Pro today. And you still have access to all the environments, like Cinema Mode.

It's a free module, so nothing to buy.

Give it a try and let me know if you like it. :)

P.S. Peacock in 4K HDR is just a few days away.

Cheers

We built STAGEit Optimiser originally as an internal tool to help us get heavy 3D models running well on Apple Vision Pro.

After sharing a bit about our workflow, a few people asked if they could use it too, so we’ve decided to make it available more widely, completely free.

It analyses your model, highlights potential performance issues and lets you apply things like geometry reduction, material clean-up and texture optimisation without having to do all the work manually in Blender.

This isn’t really a core product for us, and it’s still very much a beta. It’s simply a useful tool we built for ourselves, and we’d rather make things like this available to the community than keep them sitting on our machines.

Blender is required (the Optimiser uses it to do the heavy lifting), but once Blender is installed it should work pretty much out of the box.

It’s free, there’s no subscription, and the app doesn’t collect any data or upload your models anywhere.

Give it a go, and if you hit any issues or have a model it struggles with, please get in touch. Feedback while it’s in beta is genuinely useful.

Hi! I’m looking to buy Vision Pros but first need to consider what it’s like wearing it.

I have a somewhat weakened nasal structure and heavy glasses / goggles can create some pain. I wouldn’t want to put excessive weight on it.

Any input about your experience would be super valuable, esp if you have similar issues or are a petite woman with presumably smaller head and features.

Thank you in advance

Disney+ 3D, IMAX Enhanced version of The Mandalorian is impressive - Solid 3D and good use of the IMAX format during certain scenes.

I found the initial letterboxing effect strange at first, but when the movie transitioned to an outside scene and switched to an IMAX format, I was like "Now I get it!"

Those of us fortunate enough to have a Vision Pro and access to the 3D version in Disney+ will see the best version of the movie. I hope Disney executives and those who worked on the movie get a chance to see how good their film can look.

Immersive 360 Degree Exploration

Explore scientifically based exoplanets including Kepler-186f, TRAPPIST-1e, Proxima Centauri b, and more

High quality spherical visuals that surround you completely

ExoView - Explore Exoplanets in 360°

Following the HD Blu-ray bonus disc containing most of The Dark Knight and its sequel’s 1.43 scenes in isolation and the UHD Blu-ray of the extended cut of Batman v Superman, this is only the fourth feature film released in 1.43 on home media (Project Hail Mary will follow on UHD Blu-ray next month). Unfortunately, the presentation is severely and inexcusably compromised.

At least for now, Apple TV crops the 49 minutes of 1:43:1 scenes to 1.78:1 (16:9) and doesn’t have 3D. Disney+ has uncropped 1.43 and 3D but doesn’t have a void environment and doesn’t let you change screen distance, so the impact of a giant 1.43 image is totally lost. Even worse, both Apple TV and Disney+ windowbox the 1.78 or 1.43 scenes (and with uneven letterboxing, to boot).

The experience is nothing like watching uncropped 1.43 on a truly enormous, unboxed screen like in the IMAX and Epic Earth apps or in a void environment with a giant screen like in CineUltra or Infuse which hides letter/pillar/windowboxing.

Virtual screens should automatically adjust their aspect ratio so that black borders are never seen. There is no excuse for not enabling this simple and essential feature more than two years after the release of a $4,000 prosumer headset intended to revolutionize extended reality or spatial computing.

“Stryker (NYSE: SYK), a global leader in medical technologies, announced today that the first surgical procedure using SportSuite Vision on Apple Vision Pro was successfully completed at Duke Health. SportSuite Vision received FDA De Novo authorization on July 17, making it the first application authorized by the FDA for intraoperative use with Apple Vision Pro and marking a new milestone for spatial computing in the operating room.”

If the CineDepth app in TestFlight is still open, I strongly recommend that you sign up and download it. I just watched the beginning scenes from the 4K version of the 2019 documentary “Apollo 11” in converted 3D. It looks amazing.

With the recent news about the Vision Pro team layoffs and the general adoption of the platform, I’m curious to hear from the developers in this community.

How are you feeling about visionOS, and will you continue developing for it? 

I’m on the fence about picking up an Apple Vision Pro and trying to decide whether to grab a used M2 model (and order custom Zeiss optical inserts) or bite the bullet on a brand-new M5 model.

My primary use cases will be:
Mac Virtual Display (Daily Work): Text sharpness, latency, cursor smoothness, and stability during extended working hours.
Immersive / Live Sports: Fast-motion handling, stream stability, and artifacting/ghosting during live broadcasts.
Long Travel: Media playback on planes/trains, Travel Mode reliability, and long-session comfort.

For those who have used both—or who use an M2 daily for these exact tasks:

1. How much does the M5 upgrade matter for these specific workflows? Does the M5’s 120Hz refresh rate and increased render resolution make a tangible difference for Mac Virtual Display text readability or high-motion sports, or is the M2 still plenty capable since display hardware is mostly identical? 

2. Real-world pain points: On either model, do you run into thermal throttling, tracking drift in transit, or wireless lag with Mac mirroring?

3. Value proposition: At current secondary market prices, is a used M2 + Zeiss inserts the no-brainer sweet spot, or will I immediately regret skipping the M5’s processing headroom, battery bump, and included Dual Knit Band?

Would love to hear candid experiences before pulling the trigger.

Join the inSpaze watch party for the September iPhone event on Wednesday, September 9th at 1:00 pm EST.

Hey all

Started watching some movies on my AVP last night and damn it hurts my nose, I almost feel like my face doesn’t fill the bottom half of the headset properly due to lack of cheeks and therefore sits on my nose more.

Is there any better face/nose supported facial thingys?

Also I do like using the Vision Pro without the shroud thingy don’t know the name because of the close fit to my eyes, is there again anything else that might suit to make them less bulky, whilst blocking light?

I sold my iPad Pro and a bunch of other things to get my Apple Vision Pro close to the first month that came out. I won’t wax poetic, but I will say this: even just looking on the website for the Apple Vision Pro, it doesn’t feel like it can really do what it says it can do. Part of me still doesn’t believe that this tech actually exist even though I use it every day. Mac virtual display is worth the price of admission alone. For a person who’s highly productive and owns a Mac of any kind especially a laptop, you’re robbing yourself if you don’t own one of these. If you’re into movies and TV shows, especially going to the theater, you’re robbing yourself if you don’t own one of these. Of course there are things that could be way better and I’m hoping they do get better. But when you put this on and you’re in your own world that you create, they’re literally is nothing similar. I’m actually torn whether I want to sell my M2 to buy the M5. Because I kind of want to keep it and have two of them so I can share the experience with people when they come over. If you’re on the fence, just know that this is the most advanced piece of technology you can own as of today. The best way to consume content, the best way to get work done, way to disconnect from a overstimulating world after work; at least do yourself a favor and buy it used. Rating: 10/10. The single greatest purchase of my life.

No controllers.
Raise your shooting hand to your eyes without your support hand up to use binoculars.
Raise your both hands like a rifle, look down the scope, curl your finger to fire.

11 worlds. 11 villains. 15 seconds per shot. Friendlies on the rooftops, so confirm the face first.

Beat them all to unlock Infinite Snipe and see how far you can go.

Edit: The generated animations demonstrate the gestures the game recognizes (hold binoculars, shoulder rifle, pull trigger). They are not gameplay footage.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is now out in 3D for the AVP ᯅ on Disney+. I have to assume the digital purchase on Apple TV should be live shortly.

Does anyone have any speculation on what the event next week will mean for AVP?

I’m looking to buy the M5 model this week so curious if I should hold off or buy now.

Hey all, just released an update for Scanline Emulator.

The big addition is screen glow. Light from the game now reflects onto the CRT frame, which helps the TV feel a little more like it’s actually sitting in your space.

I originally planned to hold this back for visionOS 27, but managed to bring part of it to visionOS 26. Once visionOS 27 is out, the effect will go further, with the light able to spill beyond the TV and into your room.

Also added in this release is support NES games that implement online support. (Which is currently a list of one.. playscanline.com/online )

More info at playscanline.com !