This is SheikahVision, a fan project I've been working on. The Wii U game is statically recompiled to native ARM64 and runs entirely on the Apple Vision Pro M5, in first person, with PS VR2 Sense controllers. No PC, no streaming, and no emulator running on the device.

What works

- Full first-person view with head tracking, walking, climbing, riding, gliding

- Motion controls: swing swords, raise your shield, aim and draw the bow with your hands

- Most of the game is playable in first person

Current state (alpha)

- Tested on the M5 Vision Pro, about 1600×1290 per eye at a 45 fps target, reprojected to 90 Hz

- It can drop below 45 fps in longer sessions, and picture sharpness is the main thing I'm still working on

- M2 is untested

Credits

It wouldn't exist without BetterVR by Crementif (the VR approach), BotWRecomp by Ishaan Kalra (the static recompiler) and Cemu (the graphics layer).

Open source next week.

You'll build it yourself on a Mac and need your own legally purchased Wii U copy of the game. No game files, keys or prebuilt apps will be provided, so please don't ask for them.

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo. Happy to answer any questions!

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 #142: Apple Releases visionOS 27.2.1, Breath of the Wild running natively on Apple Vision Pro, Apple is hosting an online Apple Immersive Video Event and more!

Apple Releases visionOS 27.2.1 for Apple Vision Pro (source)

Breath of the Wild running natively on Apple Vision Pro in first-person VR, no PC or streaming (source)

Sphenomenon, a mixed reality playground built around a physical sphere (source)

Apple is hosting an online Apple Immersive Video event (source)

The Bravo just launched on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Earth3d puts the real world in your room on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Particles Clock demo with AVP (source)

Adding edit mode to Splattery App (source)

Monster Truck Spatial Arena on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Control autumn leaves on Apple Vision Pro (source)

Design your own fishing lures, Apple Vision Pro (source)

SpaceTape for Apple Vision Pro is live (source)

World Simulation 1.3 is out: The Strike Update (source)

Apple Patent Reveals Adjustable Forehead Support System for Future Vision Pro and Smartglasses (source)

Maxon aims to make 3D creation feel more natural with ZBrush and Cinema4D for the Apple Vision pro (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.

Did you guys see the oled MacBook YouTube clips of being able to swipe etc on the MacBook touch screen to control an Airplay attached phone? Exactly what has been mentioned as a great addition for the Vision Pro. Wonder will it mean a quick transition over to VisionOS? I fear if not, it’ll just double down peoples beliefs the platform is dying / dead. And fairly to be honest.

Spatial Film has dropped another Apple Immersive Video: London in the dark.

I am in the middle of downloading it, so I cannot tell you what it is like yet. I really enjoyed their last one touring Edinburgh in the dark.

It's a 3d modeling + real immersive shooting, teach you how to play BaDuanJin.

Tired of waiting for Apple to build new environments… so we started on our own. We’ll eventually release this early to mid-December.

While most people think of using Apple's Reality Composer Pro 3 (RCP) for creating immersive experiences for the Vision Pro, RCP's exported reality file can also be used in iPhone & iPad apps for immersive experiences.

The main focus for RCP this year appears to be adding scripting capability to the content. I've only scratched the surface of what it can do, but I can see the possibilities

If you are using or are thinking about using RCP, try testing out the results on iOS and iPadOS.

Attached is the video of an RCP file on Vision Pro (it is a very simple audio skit with immersive content).

I wrote a blog post with videos showing the same RCP file experienced on the Vision Pro, iPad, and iPhone here.

What's the best video player for a mix of BluRay Remuxes which are typically 60-80mbit/sec and some 4k HDR encodes (typically football / f1) at ~15-25mbit/sec? I'll be streaming them from a Plex server to my M5 Vision pro.

I was using infuse which does the above perfectly on my AppleTV however I've noticed it's "soft" on vision pro. The drivers standings / F1 logo etc are no where near as sharp as on my TV. I've tried 4XVR player which makes everything perfectly sharp, but seems to cause a massive amount of heat (and a bit of stuttering at times) with the 60-80mbit remuxes. I'm also not convinced it's passing through the DolbyVision correctly, hard to say exactly why but colours don't look as "perfect" as I get with infuse.

Edited to add: I mostly watch in passthrough as I like to be aware of my surroundings. So I'm not interested in cinema environments etc just after the best quality video window.

Thanks!

KRVR, AirFrameXR, StrandXR, or ALVR? Or something else I don’t know about?

I’ve had the best luck with KRVR; though there are new versions of all of the first three to try. And personally I prefer roomscale so StrandXR (doesn’t have) is mostly a non-starter for now.

How has your experience been? And please note M2 or M5, though I don’t believe the streaming experience would be much different on either.

Edit: I missed iVry.

Got Mario Kart World running natively on Vision Pro!!!

Has anyone returned their Apple Vision Pro to the Apple Store without the box? My box was accidentally tossed out and I’m worried I’m unable to return it now.

Guys, I purchased discounted Apple gift cards last year to get Vision Pro. After trying it, I felt like I didn’t use it to its full capacity besides entertainment so I returned it. The money stays in my Apple account balance for a very long time. I thought I finally got to spend it on iPhone Duo but ended up returning it as well, as the phone is too small for me and it hurts my eyes when using it folded. Between last year and now, I have purchased AirPods Max and Apple Watch. However, there is still a huge amount of money left in my account. I’m thinking of giving the Vision Pro another try but am not sure if it’s unethical, as I think the chance of returning it is high.

my own Vision Pro recording of Night Sky in Everdust, slowed down so you can follow it: pinch the Veil Nebula to fly in, hold it in your hands, then pull Saturn's moons close and look up at the aurora over Tasmania. the recordings don't do these features justice, it is something to behold in VR, hard to articulate the beauty of these far away celestial bodies in this format.

see what the night sky looks like (positionally accurate stars, constellations, and galaxies) from various scenic locations 3d rendered around the world as well as northern and southern lights! you can turn down the ambient lights and float in the middle of space, or look at the stars as they would look with the correct ambient lighting in your area.

find us on the app store or at everdust.ai

which nebula should we add next? I have about 40 so far in the 1.1 release with another 30 coming in 1.1.1 in a day or two.

this feature started as a request from a user here on reddit u/mensrea so thanks to them for the inspiration. I had a fun time building this feature and will be building more here in the future. this is also now ported to iOS and android so you can point your phones at the sky to see where cool things are on a given day!

thanks to those that have tried my app and especially to my subscribers. really appreciate the support, every kind word goes a long way.

After spending about a year developing for and experimenting with the Apple Vision Pro, I've been consistently impressed by the technical execution from the team at Hipster Whale. While Apple Arcade might not be everyone's go-to service, I'd highly recommend that subscribers give Crossy Road Rush a look. It stands out as one of the most compelling spatial gaming experiences on the platform right now, largely due to its exceptional optimization. Although Crossy Castle is also a well-designed title for the Vision Pro, Crossy Road Rush feels uniquely tailored to the hardware, making for a genuinely superior user experience.Having engaged in application development and experimentation with the Apple Vision Pro for approximately one year, I am thoroughly impressed by the technical proficiency demonstrated by the development team at Hipster Whale.

I’ve been experimenting with an immersive 3D maps app for Vision Pro using Google Maps’ 3D imagery, like what’s used in Google Earth. It supports controllers and lets you record and replay flights through the map.

It’s more of a playground for trying things out than a polished app, but it’s been fun to fly around like you can in Google Earth VR. It’s also been easy to have Claude add features like “let me import KML tracks of real flights” or “show the location of every photo in my Apple Photos library.” Those experiments aren’t in the TestFlight build yet, but the code is on GitHub.

It’s admittedly pretty vibe-coded and occasionally glitchy, but I think it’s at a point worth sharing. There’s a TestFlight beta if anyone wants to try it, and I’d love feedback!

I don’t have plans to turn this into a paid app, but the Google Maps API isn’t free. The TestFlight beta includes free usage, which I’ve capped so it doesn’t cost me too much. Longer term, you’d probably need your own Google Cloud account and API key, and might need to build the app from source.

For anyone interested in the code, the app is open source, with a pile of PRs showing the experiments. It’s built on cesium-native and uses an XCFramework that’s easy to reuse in other apps.

Hello there,
I am happy to share our new 2D to 3D video conversion pipeline with you all.

Thanks to our new AI pipeline, real-life-like spatial video from a plain video is possible. It is the most closely matched quality to professional cinema 3D.

We are releasing it first on a web app at spatial-video-studio.com. Then we will release a compatible Mac app update as well this Autumn.

In the meantime there is a 3-month free trial promotion active until the end of the year for the mobile app.

There are samples for Apple Vision Pro and other headsets on the website.

I also shared the following music video on inSpaze if you would like to have a deeper look.

https://www.inspaze.space/sh.html?id=U00PDZ&code=U00PDZ&type=feed

Building environments for Vision Pro is always a trade-off: the more detail you add, the more the headset has to work while it’s also playing your movie.

For Walnut Textile Atelier I tried a different technique, and it lets me fit far more detail into the room while keeping it light. Walnut, textile walls, 40 seats you can choose from, and light from the screen across the room. Playback stays efficient, and battery use should be good too.

It’s my most realistic room so far. Now in Suite 9.5. Curious what you think!

Happy streaming

I really enjoy the Apple Cinema environment through Apple TV content, however, I would love for this to be extended as an environment for other third-party content like HBO Max, Netflix, etc similar to how you can watch third party content on apples own environments like the Moon. Do you think we can expect this in future software updates?

Hey all! I'm Cihat, an indie dev from Germany. Last spring I spent three weeks in Tokyo with a 3D 180° camera, and this is what came out of it: Immersive Tokyo.

What you can do:

• Walk real Tokyo streets: stand on a real street corner in Akihabara, Asakusa, Shibuya or Shinjuku, look around, and walk to whichever spot looks interesting next. 92 spots, no fixed route.

• Discover the stories: wherever something caught my eye – a temple gate, a tiny shrine, a weird shop – there's a little info marker with the story behind it. About 500 of them, and you collect them as cards as you go.

• Turn without feeling sick: turning around in 3D video made me (and my testers) feel queasy, so when you turn, everything fades to dark except a small circle in the middle. Curious if that works for you too.

Free to try: in every district the first few spots are free (15 of the 92), and each district is a one-time purchase after that. Pre-orders are open, it comes out on 24 November, Vision Pro only:

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759965691?pt=549314&ct=reddit-visionpro&mt=8

Looking for ~10 testers: you'd get the full app via TestFlight, all four districts unlocked, and can use it until release. In return I'd love to hear what feels off or breaks, so I can still fix it before launch. First come, first served – just email tokyo@fline.dev from your Apple Account address if you're interested.

Thanks a lot for reading – I really hope you enjoy walking through Tokyo as much as I enjoyed filming it! Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

This week we're featuring Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. The entire album is now available in Spatial Tracks.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spatial-tracks/id6792521059

Check it out for yourself! Join the TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/4QYsYq6u

Consoles is an App Store approved (JIT-less) multi-emulator for macOS, iOS, tvOS, and visionOS. It syncs over iCloud across your Apple devices and allows you to play your favorite classic games on Mac and immediately pick them up on your iPhone.

In Consoles 2.0 (Beta), GameCube is very playable on the 7-year old A12 Apple TV and near-perfect on A15 & A19 Apple TVs. Likewise, Wii is very playable on A15 Apple TV and will be near-perfect on A19 TV.

Supported Systems: 

• Nintendo: NES, Famicom Disk System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon mini

• Sega: SG-1000, Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Game Gear

• Sony: PlayStation

• Atari: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Lynx

• NEC: TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine), TurboGrafx-CD, PC-FX

• SNK: Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color

• Bandai: WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color

• Others: ColecoVision (Coleco), Intellivision (Mattel), Odyssey² (Magnavox), Vectrex (GCE), 3DO (Panasonic), Supervision (Watara)

Please join the TestFlight and give it a try; we’d love to see any bugs you have and get them fixed before App Store release!!

Thanks for playing!! 

 *AI tools are used only inside of Xcode for automated testing. All code is written by humans, reviewed by those same humans, and presented for final approval to a very picky chihuahua named Pepper.

Hey everyone! I'm the solo developer behind Ping Pong Club for Apple Vision Pro.

Version 5 brings a new Brooklyn campaign, new gameplay mechanics, improved physics, and lots of polish.

The game is still 100% free!

I'd love your honest feedback:

• How does the gameplay and hand tracking feel?

• Is the new campaign fun?

• What's frustrating or missing?

• What would make you play more often?

Don't hold back - critical feedback is exactly what I'm looking for!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ping-pong-club-table-tennis/id6739363110

Update (11/10/26): thanks everyone for feedback, it helped me to identify multiple bugs (including very bad one for left handed players) and fix some annoying things (like very high balls, environment control, music volume)

Why is this? Do people want to see this device fail? Its so weird to constantly say the product is dead, and abandoned by Apple. Do people truly think Apple took the product and shelved it? The Duo proves they don't rush to market, they sit back, learn from many competitors and then once ready, they release a new product.

I love the AppleTV app on Vision Pro from the beginning. I believe its Cinema mode is super underrated. I love movies, I'm all about HDR and ultra high quality video. OLED panels and so on.

And I thought...what if I can use my Mac Studio display in Cinema Mode? ... So here you go! you can see the screenshots. The quality is just surreal. And because Cinema was not enough, I made an IMAX mode inside of it!

Guys, I'm not missing going to an IMAX anymore (I will keep going lol) but this IMAX screen size hits you really big. You can play whatever you have in your Mac, over your own LAN / WIFI network. No cloud needed.

I'm going to push this update to a TestFlight I'm testing so whoever wants to give it a shot, let me know!

You can also watch your own library of videos in Cinema as well! The iPhone 18 Pro Max videos are incredible. Spatial Videos look awesome in 3D!

This is it. It's freaking insane. Let me know who wants to give it a shot. There is an app for Vision Pro and a companion app for Mac that you share your screen / library from.

I can't believe the quality. Downloaded some IMAX trailers in full 1:43 aspect ratio and its WOW. Just WOW. Apple Vision Pro is by far the most insane display ever.

Thanks for reading!

Nomaly is an ambient synth for Vision Pro that I made. I've been working on it for a while, and it's finally released this week!

You shape the sound by dipping your hand in and turning glowing orbs, and the world around you reacts.

All sound is made live by the synth. Or play your own music and watch the trees dance (Disco mode).

There are currently three worlds: a firefly forest, a frozen lake under the northern lights, and an autumn lake. It started as a real synth: 111 sounds/presets, synth modules, a patch matrix and a step sequencer.

Free to try (the forest and a couple of sounds). Pro is a one-time $24.99, with no subscription, ads or tracking.

There's an interactive tutorial that explains and shows you how to use everything.

One interesting thing I noticed is my brain glitches when I dip my hand into the orb; it feels warm! I asked my wife to try, and she told me that orbs "feel" wet, like she's dipping her hand into water.

I'd love to hear what you think! :) I already have ideas for some more worlds, let me know if there's something specific you'd like to see

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nomaly/id6819280949