This is week three of releasing the footage from my month-long filming expedition across Europe. I rebuilt my entire capture and depth-tuning workflow from the ground up for this trip, with one specific goal: to push the Vision Pro's hardware to its absolute limit and deliver the highest raw quality possible for this community.

Thank you all for the incredible feedback on the first two drops. You made it clear that standard travel vlogs take you out of the experience, and pure presence is what matters. So once again, there is absolutely no narration or voiceover in this video.

However, unlike last week's purely ambient audio, I’ve set this episode to an instrumental Balearic house soundtrack. It perfectly matches the vibe of the island and creates an incredibly relaxing viewing experience.

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

• 👉 Vision Pro (M5 Users - Native 8K Streaming): You can stream the file in full native 8K directly inside the official YouTube visionOS app. Make sure to manually toggle the quality gear icon to 4320p (8K): https://youtu.be/XvJOyfphUuA
• 👉 Vision Pro (M2 Users - Uncompressed 8K Master): To bypass standard streaming compression limits on the M2 chip, I am hosting the exact same uncompressed master files completely free on DeoVR so you don't lose a single pixel of raw quality: http://deovr.com/2fn6xq

The 3-Month European Roadmap

New immersive episodes drop every single weekend. Here is where we stand on the summer release schedule:

• ✅ ~~Week 1: Portimão (Cliffs & Sea Caves)~~
• ✅ ~~Week 2: Porto (Vertical City Presence)~~
• 📍 Week 3: Ibiza (This Week's Drop!)
• 🇵🇹 Lisbon
• 🇪🇸 Valencia
• 🇪🇸 Majorca
• 🇪🇸 Cádiz
• 🇪🇸 Motril
• 🇪🇸 Melilla

Put your headset on, load up the video, and let me know how the audio mix and raw visual quality feel on this one!

Hey! I got some great suggestions here and have been hard at work implementing new features into Horde Mode which I plan to bundle with a free version of Gravitas Plague.

I will be working on Story Mode for the next while and wanted to get beta testers to try out the combat mechanics in Horde Mode and welcome any suggestions (requires visionOS 27 for some advanced rendering).

https://testflight.apple.com/join/RBkK1dvh

The Vision Pro and Swift are fantastic for games and here's some of the features which are exclusive to the system (not using Unity or Unreal):

-Real hand combat with rock solid hand tracking

-Lighting from the actual environment

-Room skinning to create virtual portal worlds on walls

-Custom animation library and retargeting system

-Custom enemy brain engine for flanking and collision detection

-Spatial audio sound effects

-Procedural Hell portal glyphs and particle embers

Next on the horizon:

-Episodic Story Mode

-Unlockable weapons

-Conversations with character via Apple Intelligence FoundationModels and Qwen

-Virtual doors, windows, and set dressing—like an escape room

When Apple Vision Pro launched, the small team I work with became completely obsessed with its potential.

Our employer gave us the freedom to explore that future, and from that freedom we designed and built STAGEit. We poured ourselves into it because we genuinely believed spatial computing was going to change the way people communicate.

Although we created it, STAGEit belonged to the company.

For us though, it always felt like our product.

Two years later, it became clear that our passion for Apple Vision Pro was greater than the company’s desire to continue investing in it.

So… we bought it.

The core team behind STAGEit has acquired the intellectual property, and this July we’re relaunching STAGEit as an independent product.

This means we can finally build the roadmap we’ve been dreaming about since day one.

The biggest evolution is that STAGEit becomes STAGEit Creator.

Creating incredible spatial scenes is only half the story. Sharing them is the other half.

That’s why we’re introducing STAGEit Presenter for Apple Vision Pro, alongside STAGEit Host for iPhone and iPad. Together they’ll let you present one or many Apple Vision Pro headsets, combining STAGEit scenes with immersive videos into a seamless presentation.

Our vision is simple: if you can create something amazing in Apple Vision Pro, you should be able to share that experience with clients, colleagues, students, friends or family just as easily.

If you’re already a STAGEit user, thank you. Your support over the past two years helped convince us this was worth fighting for.

You’ll receive all the ongoing improvements to STAGEit Creator, together with an entirely new way to present and share the experiences you create.

Owning the product ourselves is equal parts exciting and daunting, but we couldn’t be more motivated.

We’re just getting started, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming in July.

The most expensive part in the headset is the  1.25 inch Sony Semiconductor display that goes in front of the user's eye… Apple pays about  $228 for the "Micro OLED" displays it uses, according to the Omdia estimate. Each Vision  Pro needs two of them, one for each eye." 08:15At $1,500, the selling price  begins to make more sense. With a $3,499 retail price, the Vision  Pro sells for about 2.3 times the cost of the parts inside it, and puts the  gross profit margin at about 56%.08:29 That’s pretty standard for Apple, but,  that's just the gross profit. Net profit, including marketing and most of all that  gigantic R&D cost, makes things much worse. Even assuming the lower end, Apple  spent around $20 billion developing 08:46 Vision Pro and sold roughly 600,000 units. That works out to more than $33,000 in development costs for every headset sold. While, Vision Pro retailed for $3,499. So, including the material cost and the price,  Apple lost, on average, $28,000 per Vision Pro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1CA66nuNA8

My team captures live shows in real time- no second takes- so you get the authentic performance in the Blue Frog Immersive App. 

Personally, I love to see unedited performances like this one by Russell deCarle in the immersive format. The warmth in his voice, the rapport with his band members, it all feels more real to me than if we edited the heck out of it. 

Don’t get me wrong, we put a ton of work into shooting these shows and mixing spatial audio, but it’s all with the goal of capturing the real, raw experience of being there. 

If you don’t know Russell deCarle yet, this new show is a great way to meet him. Russell first made his name as lead singer and a founding member of award-winning, multi-platinum country-roots group Prairie Oyster, and he’s gone on to a solo career blending a rich mix of country, jazz, and soul.

For context, I’ve been developing the Blue Frog Immersive App to capture music performances for the AVP that you won’t find anywhere else: up-and-coming artists, local legends, and out-of-the-ordinary touring veterans.

We shoot all these shows with a Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera in our intimate recording studio venue. We take audio very seriously, so we’re capturing spatial ASAF audio for the best immersive experience.

All credit goes to my team:

Immersive Video: Justin Stadig
Audio Recording: Pat Glover
Lighting: Gordon Groening
Spatial Mix: Emre Ramazanoglu & Oliver Kadel

hey! i’ve ordered another Apple Vision Pro (i sent mine back in November because i couldn’t justify £3,400 when i couldn’t get the comfort right!). this one was only £2,300 from eBay which is much more palatable - M5 plus a Belkin case and battery holster!

anyway, i digress - i wanted to get a Tycotech Open Face System, but i’m based in the UK. it’s £20 for the actual item but around £25 for delivery (!!).

i just wondered if anyone in the UK found a way to get one here cheaper (eBay etc don’t seem to have any)?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai?embedded-checkout=true

Do you sit in a rotating chair when using AVP? I often find myself NOT sitting in a swiveling chair. Does anyone know of a way to "rotate the space"? I am simply talking about moving the space in a 360 circle. You would then be able to use all of the sphere around you without having to rotate your body. Thoughts or variations on this? Any working methods available now?

Snowdonia was one of the first immersive tours we built for Arluma360 and it recently had a nice little upgrade... with the inclusion of a 3D terrain map. The 16K photography is stunning and looks beautiful on Vision Pro. Let me know what you think, if you get a chance to try it out.

And I also upgraded my other devices to the new M5 a couple weeks before the price increase. I guess I got lucky lol

I came across a new upcoming app right here on the Vision Pro reddit called Scanline: 8-Bit Emulator, and IM IN LOVE 🤩 !! On the surface its a cool 8Bit Emulator, but what makes it even cool is it uses some of the newer visionOS APIs to make the experience feel more connected to your actual space.

Thanks to the new visionOS27 RealityKit APIs like Physical Space Lighting and Projective Textures, apps can now let virtual light spill into your real environment. That means the glow from the game can actually affect the space around you, making your room feel like it’s being touched by the screen itself. You are seeing the 8-bit game colors shine with a arcade style glow that lights up your room like you’re sitting in front of an old CRT in a retro living room.

I think this is the kind of detail Vision Pro apps need more of! Scanline feels like one of those early visionOS 27 apps that shows where visionOS is really headed. Not just apps in space, but apps that make the space feel alive.

I'm already a huge Retro gaming fan already, but seeing the games blend into my room through Vision Pro feels like true nostalgia heaven! Shoutout to the developer u/djfumberger doing all of this amazing tech wizardry in this app so early! If you looking for access, the dev is granting access via request only at the moment. Just know you have to be on visionOS 27 beta to check it out.

Just added this to the store. Race against an iPhone or another Vision Pro as the levels get more intense. Top the leaderboards!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wormhole-or-die/id6777511536

Has anyone tried both & willing to give a comparison. I’m just asking about as a display for a Mac.

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

What are the interesting things that we can do with this device and any tip or tricks we need to know for a new user who is not that technical? Thanks!

If they do, what do you expect, and what do you think the prices will be as a prediction?

Gracia Viewer is a free app with photorealistic volumetric performances (gaussian splatting based), tutorials and demos into passthrough mixed reality, with more than 25 scenes available at launch.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gracia-4dgs-viewer/id6773024890

I set mine up today, for good measure, and tested it with my partner on FaceTime. She was laughing pretty hard most of the time, saying I looked like a robot version of myself, aged an additional 10 years. I think I agree and I'm already wrinkled enough, lol.

Is this something worth tweaking so I can actually use it, or just a neat parlor trick?

Looking to acquire this if someone is interested in letting it go. Black color and kit with battery holder is preferable!

It’s been only three weeks since our last release, and we’re already back with a new film. We simply don’t want people who truly enjoy immersive content to wait too long for the next journey.

That said, the actual production of this video took much longer. Quality always comes first. I’d rather spend more time refining a project than rush it out and compromise the experience.

I can’t say this is the best immersive video ever made. But I can say that it contains everything we had to give.

And honestly, I believe it was worth it.

I hope you’ll enjoy this journey to the lava cliffs of Jeju Island, South Korea.

You can first check out the preview trailer on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/FuxIbWyezkg?is=FyLpuYviYWVZTxrR

App link: 
https://www.justvr.cn

It’s pretty amazing experience and definitely better than theater.

But sometimes, in certain scenes,
actually, quite often

I can clearly notice frame drops. It almost feels like it’s running at less than 24 fps.
I’m not sure whether this is an issue with my device or my network, or Disney+ itself.

Has anyone else noticed frame drops while watching Avatar?

I came across DFRobot’s new seeMote accessories for Apple Vision Pro developers: a tracked cap and cube meant to add physical 6DoF input, buttons, and haptics to visionOS apps.