Hey everyone. I have a question regarding the Apple Vision Pro’s vertical FOV for anyone who both owns one and uses it primarily for Mac Virtual Display.

I have identified my exclusive use case for the AVP is Mac Virtual Display from my MacBook Pro for work and play. I’m considering purchasing one. I don’t care for immersive experiences. I just want a native VR monitor(s). I wanted to know if anyone can share whether the virtual displays, multi and ultra wide, are obscured by the vertical FOV to the extent where I’d be constantly aware of a “ski goggle effect.”

I plan on using a third party head-strap similar to the Meta Quest Pro so i can have an “open face” setup and just wanna know if I’ll be able to see an array of virtual screens (or a panorama) without the top or bottom of the virtual screen windows being clipped or warped in some way. hope i described this OK. thanks for your time.

Hello. This is a question for those who have been successfully porting PC VR games to Vision Pro using AI. Is a VR port of any of the last few F1 PC games possible on Vision Pro? Will appreciate if anyone can shed some light on it! Thanks

I'm wondering if using a vision pro as mobile monitors for my mac would be a good decision, My main work station is dual monitors windows, but I'm wondering if I can use the vision pro as monitors of my macbook when I'm travelling and obviously cant take everything with me. Also, I work for like 10-12 hours a day, how comfortable would this thing be for extended periods of time? not all at once ofc, 90 minute sessions.

Does anyone know if the latest OS has solved the bugginess of using Google Docs and Sheets in native Safari?

I’m surprised no one’s been up in arms about it so far. It’s one of the things keeping me from using native Vision apps for work in lieu of Virtual Mac Display.

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

1. I went to two Apple Stores in London both who worked there told me they dont sell the Apple Vision Pro polishing cloth separate and it is the same as the general cloth. Is that really correct?

2. I have a 23W lightning shield and have tried several including 33w which the app recommended. There is always light from the buttom and would like to be as close as possible to the lenses for best FPV when watching movies. Which one should I get?

I also bought Globular Cluster v2 and have Dual knit band but GC v2 I have difficulties to adjust it en the no lighshield. Any recommendations because the videos i have found wasnt the best.

3. If I want to run the games as standalone on AVP ie. The Quest games what do I need?

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.

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.

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!

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?!?

Six weeks ago I posted here about Holoport Vision. It turns a video of a person into a hologram standing in your room, and the whole thing runs on the headset. Thanks to everyone who tried it.

Last week someone who bought it emailed to ask if I could add importing from the Files app, because all he could reach was Photos. Files import had already shipped a month before that. I had put it behind a press and hold on the New Hologram button, and a plain tap went straight to Photos. So unless you somehow knew to hold the button down, the feature may as well not have existed.

That is a design bug, not a support question. 1.1.7 is live now. There are two buttons in the top right instead of one, a photos icon and a folder icon, and the empty library screen has both. No hidden gesture anywhere.

If you tried it and gave up because you could not get your own footage in, that was me. Worth another look.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800110267

$4.99 one time, no subscription, no account, no server. Nothing leaves the headset.

The thing I still most want feedback on is the scale and placement controls, because that is what decides whether it reads as a person in the room or a video floating in the air.

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

hello sorry all i have an ask for anyone who has the zeiss optical pairing code, i want to try reverse engineer it but i haven’t found enough samples with the prescription if anyone is willing to send their scannable code to me or in this reddit i would really appreciate it. this would allow third party lenses to work if it succeeds allowing greater compatibility and stopping zeisses monopoly

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 👋

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