Since the pipeline for official Apple Immersive drops moves at a snail's pace, 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—just to give this community the high-fidelity content it’s been asking for.

This week’s release takes us to Ponta Delgada, the breathtaking capital of the Azores archipelago. For this entire film, there is no voiceover. Just the ultra-high-fidelity ambient audio of this mid-Atlantic paradise—the crashing waves of the ocean, the gentle breeze cutting through the lush volcanic landscapes, and the authentic sounds of the historic cobblestone streets. 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 Ponta Delgada’s vibrant green landscapes and historic architecture is so sharp it genuinely feels like you can reach out and touch the volcanic stone.

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/xOVzXMnSQGQ
• 👉 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: http://deovr.com/9sonc0

The 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 (Vertical City Presence)~~
• ✅ ~~Spain: Ibiza (Balearic Coast)~~
• 📍 Portugal: Ponta Delgada (This Week's Drop!)
• 🇵🇹 Lisbon
• 🇪🇸 Valencia
• 🇪🇸 Majorca
• 🇪🇸 Cádiz
• 🇪🇸 Motril
• 🇪🇸 Melilla

Load up Ponta Delgada 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 visual depth this week!

So today i thought I was a genius for using the morning light environment to trick my AVP into not dimming the lights on me,GoT is already dark enough and as soon as I went back to watching I noticed fans were on harder than I have ever heard them , put my hands app and it was like a blower running.

Anyway, I took it off and wondered, why do I gotta keep playing these games ? Even off beta,it’s been dark in dark rooms,What if Apple has legitimate reasons for doing these things, I had just assumed they are treating me like an idiot or toddler but could it be our M2 processor is severely throttled,could it be it has no power.

I just always assumed we have a lot of headroom to work with but may be we don’t.

Hi! We updated the HandymanAI lens. A Lens that helps you with your engineering projects. There is new beta transformer training module, new conversation panel features including infinite scroll and various other small UI improvements. Any feedback on if this is useful or what you think we could add would be great.

Lens link: https://www.spectacles.com/lens/02a10bf1c6ee40e08f1f0c55a8584c53?type=SNAPCODE&metadata=01

Previous update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1s9c218/handymanai_update_3/

The response to my last post about Suite Browser has been amazing. I've spent the days since going through your feedback and implementing as much of it as I could, and that update just went live!!

Netflix: way better UI, way better reliability, smoother playback across the board.

YouTube and the open web: a bunch of stability work under the hood so playback doesn't randomly stall or hang, plus a cleaner native-style control strip.

There's still a chunk of feedback from the original post I haven't shipped yet, that's coming in the next version, not ignored, just not ready yet.

Plex support is landing in a few days.

Also: I've heard a lot of interest in the One-Time Purchase (Legacy) option. It's still waiting on Apple's approval, I expect it in a few days. In the meantime, grab the free trial, the One-Time Purchase will be available before that trial runs out. No need to worry about missing it.

My goal with this app is to make it the best all-in-one streaming hub there could possibly be for us Vision Pro users. I love that you're all helping me break it and improve it. There's a lot more to do and a lot more coming, but I'm already happy with where this version landed.

Please keep breaking it. Tell me what's still wrong. I'll keep fixing.

Thanks again, genuinely.

P.S. Plex in a few days, more YouTube, epic passthrough mode, and browser fine-tuning right behind it.

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.

Hey everyone,

I have been working on this for months and it is finally out. Table Keyboard is a visionOS app that puts a virtual keyboard and trackpad on your actual desk, and sends everything to your Mac over your local network. Combined with Mac Virtual Display, you can run your whole Mac setup with nothing on your desk.

What it does:

- Surface snapping: bring the keyboard near your desk or any flat surface and it pins itself flat onto it, right where you want to type

- Full keyboard plus a built-in trackpad, so pointing, clicking, scrolling and dragging all work on your Mac

- Dictation that types incrementally as you speak, and follows your device language

- Shortcuts to switch between fullscreen apps and Spaces

- Logitech Muse support

- Custom skins and keyboard sound themes

The Trackpad is currently in beta but I'm trying to make it better and better every day.

It needs a small free companion app on the Mac side to receive the input (macOS requires an app with Accessibility permission to inject keyboard and mouse events, there is no way around that).

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/table-keyboard/id6786332555

Mac companion: https://tablekeyboard.devpool.fr

Free codes:

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If you use Mac Virtual Display every day, I would really like to hear how it holds up for you.

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2.0 is here: Less than 24hours after the release, 2.0 is here with the Touch Bar, Dock, Widgets and more!

Using an emulator called Arcem by David Gilbert and our own cobbled together engine (very simple)

Its the same emulator that is on our pinned tweet on X (anjin_games).

Booting in a VM using a modified Arcem Archimedes emulator and our own VisionPro engine.

(Low bandwidth video)

C++17 runtime that composes several open speech models behind a small interface layer:

• Silero VAD → StreamingVAD (4-state hysteresis: silence / pendingSpeech / speech / pendingSilence)
• Parakeet TDT v3 (FastConformer encoder INT8 + decoder-joint FP32 RNN-T state; CTC fallback)
• Nemotron Speech Streaming 0.6B (cache-aware FastConformer + RNN-T, true streaming)
• Omnilingual ASR CTC-300M (Wav2Vec2 + CTC, SentencePiece decode)
• Pyannote Segmentation 3.0 + WeSpeaker ResNet34-LM → constrained agglomerative clustering in pure C++ (no ML-runtime dep)
• VoxCPM2 (2B AR LM + AudioVAE, 48 kHz, zero-shot voice cloning, 4-graph pipeline: text_prefill → token_step ×N → audio_decoder)
• Kokoro 82M, DeepFilterNet3

Two interchangeable backends — ONNX Runtime and LiteRT (libLiteRt from Google's ai-edge-litert wheel) — both CPU today; CUDA / TensorRT EP just landed on the ONNX path (build-flag gated, env-resolved, runtime-probed, CPU fallback). Build the orchestration core alone (zero ML deps) or with either / both backends.

C++17, Apache 2.0, Linux + Windows + Android, stable C ABI for FFI.

https://github.com/soniqo/speech-core

Hi everyone,

I’d like to introduce Explore 360, my app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/explore360/id6776723541

Explore 360 is built around 360° panoramas. You can browse a curated collection of open-licensed panoramas from Wikimedia Commons, explore places on a world map, step inside the scenes, and look around freely.

But one of the most important parts for me is that it is not only about public content. You can also import your own 2:1 equirectangular panoramas from Photos or Files and view them properly on your devices. On Apple Vision Pro, they become fully immersive scenes around you.
You can organize your own panoramas into saved lists, sync them with iCloud, see geotagged panoramas on the map, and use the app as a personal 360° panorama library.

I also added several ways to explore panoramas together. You can use SharePlay over FaceTime, so everyone sees and explores the same panorama together. And because I wanted this to work even without FaceTime, I also built my own room-based sharing system: create a room, share a name or link, optionally protect it with a password, and let others join. Everyone can look around together and point things out with a laser pointer, each person with their own color and name label.
The app also includes Google Street View support, including an optional High Quality mode. I put a lot of effort into keeping loading times as short as possible, even when using the higher-quality imagery, so exploring Street View still feels smooth and responsive.

Another feature I’m really excited about is exporting. You can take any 360° image and export selected views as normal flat panorama images. This is especially useful for visionOS 27 Environments, where you may want to turn a 360° photo into a more standard panoramic image that works well as an environment-style background.
I’d love to hear your feedback, especially from Apple Vision Pro users and anyone who works with 360° photos.

I also have 15 free promo codes for the fastest users:
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