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 #125: 4K HDR Netflix 3rd Party App for Vision Pro, VisionOS27 Introduces Physical Space Lighting, App with Virtual Keyboard and Trackpad for AVP and more!

• Watching the new season of Silo with custom immersive background
• Comic Vision: a complete comic & manga reader for Vision Pro
• Blockworks launches on Apple Vision Pro
• I built native 4K HDR Netflix for Vision Pro
• VisionOS27 introduces physical space lighting
• What if Liquid Glass came to visionOS?
• Johnny’s Crazy Racing Cars releases in the appstore
• New Vision Pro gaming coming soon! Go Fly A Kite
• Excellent example of utilizing the immersive experience in Safari on Apple Vision Pro
• A virtual keyboard and trackpad for Apple Vision Pro
• Check the stats of the World Cup games in 3D on your Vision Pro
• Travel the world from your Vision Pro with the new app EarthEyes
• Made another fun prototype for Apple Vision Pro called VibeBike
• Demo of how visionOS handles lighting on virtual objects
• Chameleon Practice is now available for Apple Vision Pro
• Now On Vision 2.3.0 is ready for beta testing on Apple Vision Pro

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.

Watch the YouTube VR trailer here: https://youtu.be/0PScEYJb_TM

There is something about history that a flat screen has never been able to give us. You read about a battle, you see a painting of it, and it still feel distance, a thing that happened to other people, long ago, somewhere else. Immersive changes that. When you are standing on the actual ground, when the muskets fire around you and the fog sits over the water, history stops being a story you are told and becomes a place you are in. That is the part I think we have been missing.

This is why I believe historical documentary might be one of the most important things we can make for Apple Vision Pro. Not because the tech is impressive, but because presence does something to memory that nothing else does. A younger person who would never open a history book will stand inside a moment and feel it, and that feeling is what stays. We are losing so much of our shared past to time and to short attention, and immersive storytelling is a way to hand it back, to let people remember things they were never there for. That is spatial memory, and I think it matters more than we realize.

We self-funded and made this Revolutionary War documentary with love in that spirit, filmed on the real battlefield for the 250th, and released it free because this history belongs to everyone.

It is the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, fought in February 1776 near Wilmington, North Carolina. A thousand Patriots dug in at a narrow bridge over a black-water creek and waited for a force of Scottish Highlanders marching for the Crown. They pulled the planks, greased the beams, and in under ten minutes it was over. That fast fight helped push North Carolina to become the first colony to vote for independence, months before the Declaration.

We filmed it at Moores Creek National Battlefield, with the support of the National Park Service (NPS.gov), whose access to the actual ground is what makes this authentic. This is the real bridge, the real creek, the real earthworks where it happened, not a set or a recreation. During the 250th anniversary reenactment, in immersive 180. Standing on the bridge, cannon and musket fire all around you, with the reenactors on both sides telling the story. Watch it, and you are not reading about this battle. You are in it...

Watch on Spatial Film for the absolute best quality in 90fps HDR with ASAF! Spatial Film is free to download, with 4 free films in rotation each month, each with a theme. This month the theme is America 250. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spatial-film/id6670564820

Just published a new game to the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/volley-vault/id6783604287

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 #124: Activate Siri by Simply Looking at the Siri Orb, SpatialGen Zeus Streams Live Immersive Video To Apple Vision Pro, Avatar: Fire and Ash in 3D on AVP, and more!

• New “Gracia.” app makes you feel as if you are watching a live performance by the artist
• You can now activate Siri by simply looking at the Siri orb and speaking, without needing to say “Hey Siri”
• SpatialGen Zeus Streams Live Immersive Video To Apple Vision Pro
• Apple Vision Pro’s longest immersive concert was harder to film than you’d think
• Cueva de las Manos new game release that turns your living room into a colorful stone age cave
• visionOS 27 Beta 2 adds a new “Stay Connected” option for Mac Virtual Display
• Avatar: Fire and Ash is now streaming in stereoscopic 3D on Disney+ for Apple Vision Pro
• Scanline: 8-Bit Emulator brings retro gaming to the next level
• Spatial Brick Breaker on AVP
• Environments on Vision Pro in a timelapse
• Reality Composer Pro 3 allows you to live interact with any 3D apps you’re building inside of it
• The Truth About the First Spatial Accessory for Apple Vision Pro
• Water surface simulation for Apple Vision Pro
• Bloom effect coming to AVP
• Sample implementation of a game created basically no-code using Reality Composer Pro 3
• Spatial project concept in AVP

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.

We are all starving for more official Apple Immersive videos. Since the pipeline for those drops is so slow, I decided to take things into my own hands. I spent an entire month filming across Europe, pouring considerable resources into building a custom workflow that could rival Apple's million-dollar budget films on a creator budget—just to give this community the high-fidelity content it’s been asking for.

Last month, I shared the kickoff of this massive VR180 project, and the response from the Vision Pro community was incredible. But more importantly, I heard your feedback loud and clear: Lose the background music and the "annoying narration." Just let us exist in the space.

You spoke, I listened. 🤝

This week’s release takes us to Porto, hands down one of the most breathtaking, vertically stunning cities I have ever captured. For this entire film, there is no voiceover. No artificial music tracks. Just the ultra-high-fidelity ambient audio of Portugal—the wind rushing over the Douro River, the distant hum of the city, and footsteps echoing on historic stone. It radically shifts the experience from "watching a video" to pure, unfiltered teleportation.

Chasing Apple’s Quality (Without the Hollywood Budget)

My absolute obsession right now is proving that an independent creator can deliver an immersive experience that rivals tech giants.

Using my newly rebuilt custom camera rig and precise stereoscopic depth-tuning workflow, I am getting closer than ever to the visual clarity of Apple’s official proprietary productions. You don't need a $30k URSA Cine Immersive camera to maximize this headset. The depth in Porto’s incredibly narrow, colorful streets is so sharp it genuinely feels like you can reach out and touch the tiled facades.

How to Watch in Full 8K (Free / No Paywall)

• 👉 Apple Vision Pro (M5 Users): You can stream the video in full native 8K directly inside the official YouTube visionOS app: https://youtu.be/2H5VBeuLL5w?si=dxwX1-RzECiqcfLX
• 👉 Apple Vision Pro (M2 Users): To bypass streaming compression limits on the M2 chip, I am hosting the exact same uncompressed 8K master files completely free on DeoVR so you don't lose a single pixel of clarity: https://deovr.com/ua57f8

The 3-Month European Roadmap

I spent a month securing this footage because I am entirely shaping this channel around how you want to experience the world in XR. Please keep the feedback coming. Here is where we are on the journey:

• ✅ ~~Portugal: Portimão (Cliffs & Sea Caves)~~
• 📍 Portugal: Porto (This Week's Drop!)
• 🇵🇹 Lisbon
• 🇪🇸 Valencia
• 🇪🇸 Majorca
• 🇪🇸 Ibiza
• 🇪🇸 Cádiz
• 🇪🇸 Motril
• 🇪🇸 Melilla

Load up Porto and let me know if this pure ambient style gives you that true "I'm actually standing here" feeling. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the quality jump!