Watching the new Real Madrid documentary, feels like your at the stadium. Massive football fan imagine the days where you can buy a camera season ticket and watch games virtually on AVP! Every time I turn this headset on it amazes me even more!
I revisited Marvel’s “What If…? – An Immersive Story” on Apple Vision Pro and honestly… it still blows my mind how gorgeous and amazing this experience is!
I've been in vr and xr gaming for years but this was genuinely one of the first times I stopped feeling like I was “watching” or "playing" something and instead felt pulled inside the experience itself.
There’s a moment where the line between your physical space and the Marvel universe starts to disappear, and that’s when it clicked for me again (YES AGAIN LOL) why I’m so excited about spatial computing as a whole.
We talk a lot about XR needing “killer apps,” but experiences like this remind me the magic isn’t always about gameplay mechanics or resolution specs. Sometimes it’s just about presence(although those other aspects doesn't hurt :))
Huge respect to the developers at Marvel and ILM Immersive for the amount of work and creativity that clearly went into this. You can tell a lot of care was put into making it feel cinematic while still embracing mixed reality in a way that actually feels meaningful.
Link - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/what-if-an-immersive-story/id6479251303
Curious if anyone else here has tried it recently and what your thoughts were after spending time with it again or for the first time?
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I thought it might be nice to see niche use-cases for the AVP as a discussion, as everyone always says that they use it for media consumption, etc..
I'll start: when I first saw the AVP promos, I was doing a lot of trading in the attention (crypto) markets - where you needed to be on telegram, X, Reddit, and having your trading terminal up and ready to go - basically, a cross-referencing and monitoring of information in real time.
I couldn't get this image of laying in bed with my charts on the ceiling out of my head - washing dishes while being able to "monitor the situation" above the sink, sitting in my backyard around a fire with my charts up, etc.
So when I got it, I used it for this a LOT. Great use case (helped me out - paid for itself!).
I use it less for this these days because the market has taken a hit (in the meme-markets), and so don't need to be glued to my screen(s) all day every day, but this was a major use-case for when I was trading 24/7. I don't think many other people were using theirs like that.
(I still think there's an open market for someone that makes a Spatial Trading Terminal for traditional markets - I have seen some people try but nobody use Spatial Computing to its strengths yet)
So, with that in mind, I'd like to ask : how are YOU using your AVP that you don't think many others are?
The more niche, the better!
Every time I show people the Apple Vision Pro watching their reaction is priceless. It’s always awe.
What’s the best way to show people? Mirroring on my phone? The instructions are not too clear.
Xplane 12.4.3 beta 3 and Toliss A321neo XLR.
Any musicians here? The other day I was laying down a bass part at home, working off a laptop with Pro Tools. If you’ve ever used a DAW, you know how visually busy it gets.
I was squinting at the edit window and thought I would throw it up on the TV screen. It worked, but it felt oversized and not very usable.
Then I noticed my Apple Vision Pro sitting there and decided to try it.
Using Mac Connect took a couple minutes. Suddenly I had the entire session in front of me exactly how I wanted it. Edit window stretched wide, about twenty tracks in the mix window, plugins open, transport visible, all sitting in a clean, controlled space.
The experience completely shifted.
I added my AirPods Max and the distractions disappeared. I know that doesn’t work with everyone’s headshape or setup, but for me I just locked in. No clutter, no noise, just a focused environment I could stay in for hours.
Working in the entertainment business, ironically it can be hard to find the time and focus to get back to the creative side. But I was a musician first, and I really need to take time to play, write, track, or just experiment.
The AVP lets me think about that creative space differently. Less about the physical setup in the studio, more about controlling the environment around you.
Hey everyone,
Looking for some advice, I was thinking about getting the PSVR2 controllers to set up PCVR gaming on my Apple Vision Pro. But before I dive completely into the rabbit hole of getting it and setting it up, I wanted to double check if my PC specs are actually up for the task.
Here are my specs:
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KF (3.20 GHz)
RAM: 32.0 GB DDR4 (3200 MT/s)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8 GB VRAM)
I know the i9 and 32GB of RAM are great, but I’m slightly worried about the RTX 4060 and its 8GB of VRAM, but then again I know almost nothing about all this.
Will I be able to play solid PCVR games (like Half-Life: Alyx, or any other good recommended VR games) smoothly, or am I going to hit a massive bottleneck with the GPU?
Any tips on what settings I should tweak or expectations I should manage would be heavily appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Using Quest Pro controllers with Apple Vision Pro, using iVRy apps for Quest and VisionOS, and iVRy driver for SteamVR.
The WIP version of the iVRy Vision Pro app, with the WIP versions of the iVRy driver and iVRy Quest app, uses a Quest headset as a "tracking station" for Quest controllers, and VisionOS hand tracking to sync the controller and headset tracking spaces.
Quest Pro controllers self track, so cannot be occluded, and can be used outside of the Quest and Vision Pro camera views.
* Requires Quest 2/3 and Quest Pro controllers
iOS/VisionOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivry/id1210129937
It was unfortunately the final week for the film, but I got a chance to catch it last minute and was absolutely blown away.
I type this up as I sit in Bora Bora with Mac Virtual Display, listening to the sound of the ocean and wind and birds.... It's just... one of the coolest things to do. I also often forget that others around me can't see my floating windows and I'm still feeling weird about them just floating there as if anyone can see them way out in the open of my space when I'm not using an environment.
I'm also super happy about the Dual Knit Band I got for it, it's made it actually possible for me to wear it hours on end without feeling pain or hurting or anything, it's great.
I dunno, I'm just gushing that I love this thing so much. I wish it was priced lower so many others could own this experience this, too.
So I am generally very excited by the concept of VR and bought the AVP when it came out. I returned it because of weight and price.
Recently I was given an essentially brand new M2 AVP, and bought the double strap for it so weight is no longer an issue, nor is price obviously.
My biggest draw was the idea of working in the AVP - having a huge monitor and some nice widgets around me and all that. But the issue unfortunately is that text is still just not sharp enough to be comfortable to read for hours on end. Admittedly I am a pixel peeper - I have a 288 ppi display on my laptop. But still, I just don’t think I can get myself to read huge amounts of text on the AVP. Maybe the M5 is a bit better in that regard, but the display resolution is still the same so I’m guessing not that much better.
Anyway, this is not a gripe with the device as a whole - pixels per degree is basically impossible to hit for the human eye at the fovea at those distances, so you can hardly expect the text to be perfectly sharp. And it’s still an awesome media consumption device. I’m just curious how other people can really get to work in the AVP. Maybe they just don’t care that much about crisp text?
Crushing a can in one hand with a virtual Index controller, while using a real Index controller in the other, with the iVRy app for Vision Pro in Half-Life: Alyx.
The WIP version of the iVRy driver syncs Index (Lighthouse) and headset tracking spaces using VisionOS hand-tracking. The app/driver auto-switches between real and emulated controllers when the real controller is picked up/put down.
The WIP version of the app adds full hand-tracking to Index controllers, not just the "finger curl" values given by the controller's sensors.
* Requires Lighthouse base stations.
iOS/VisionOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivry/id1210129937
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for real-world setups to build a very low-latency video pipeline for surgical use.
The idea is to take a standard HDMI side-by-side (SBS) 3D output from a surgical imaging system and display it on Apple Vision Pro.
Main constraint is critical for the OR context: 👉 minimum possible latency, ideally ≤ 20 ms max
What I’m trying to understand:
Goal: HDMI SBS input → Apple Vision Pro with the lowest possible delay and stable frame rate, suitable for surgical viewing/teaching
Any feedback from people who have actually tried similar setups would be really appreciated.
Does anyone have any info on these? they were supposedly given out to apple employees who worked on the Apple Vision Pro.
When I first got cineultra I used the real time 3-D feature for a few shows and thought that at full strength it was too strong and things got weird, but around 40 to 60% it was really good
However, now I’m catching up to a series finale on The Boys, even on the lowest setting it seems like it’s just terrible, with every camera cut there’s a weird stutter for a microsecond, and untended scenes, I can see aberrations pretty plainly.
I’m curious if this real time 3-D works better with higher or lower quality video input, or just different kinds of video encoding maybe?
The shows where I noticed it being the worst are the highest quality. HD shows, generally either Dolby vision or HDR10
Anybody else experience this?
Link for it here :: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fever-dream-world/id6764151144
I just noticed the transparency effect put on windows in another “room”
Do people get used to it eventually? Or you pretty much can’t be browsing as much as I do on laptop.
I feel my eyes getting lazy, never realized just regular browsing on laptop, I’m just half focusing most of the time.
AVP require full focus on every element you click…not exactly sustainable. Going to a movie you know you want to watch which is just a few clicks is fine.
Do most people replace eye tracking with a mouse instead? Or does that only work with Mac virtual display.