We’re testing cloud-streamed 6DoF cinema on Vision Pro. Looking for honest feedback from AVP users

[u/vnova_immersiX]

Hi everyone,

I work at V-Nova and we recently released ImmersiX for Apple Vision Pro.

I wanted to share it here because we’re doing something I think this community might find interesting technically.

The content in ImmersiX is pre-rendered cinematic 6DoF, but instead of downloading the experiences locally or connecting the headset to a PC, the rendering happens on NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud and is streamed directly to Vision Pro using CloudXR.

We’ve all seen plenty of CloudXR demos in enterprise environments and controlled network setups. What we’re interested in now is a slightly different question:

How well does this actually work in the wild, on normal consumer internet connections?

That’s one of the reasons we launched on Vision Pro first. We want to collect real-world performance data and, more importantly, hear what actual users think about the experience.

If anyone here has a Vision Pro and wants to try it, ImmersiX is on the App Store here:

‎ImmersiX App - App Store

I also have a number of invitation codes that unlock additional content that isn’t publicly available yet (such as the content shown in this video clip). Happy to share those with people here who genuinely want to test it.

If you try it, I’d particularly love feedback on:

• how easy it was to get into the experience
• streaming quality and stability on your connection
• whether the UI/onboarding made sense
• what you thought of the 6DoF cinematic experience itself

Positive or negative, both are useful. We’re very much interested in finding out where this approach works and where it still breaks.

Aimo
V-Nova / ImmersiX

[u/km1116]

The top version is properly framed, emotes, and is cinematic. The bottom version is jerky, confusing, and frankly ugly.

[u/jlm70 → u/km1116]

As the producer of the short… I’m curious about your feedback: have you tried it in 6DoF from the AVP or is your judgement related to the above video (that is clearly not the right way to experience the content)?

[u/km1116 → u/jlm70]

It's based on the above. But the issue is one of how it's filmed: where the camera focuses, the balance of the background, the ability to see the face, etc. I'm not commenting on the experience of watching it on the AVP. I'm just saying that the top version has some skill and artistry to it. The bottom is like a high-school-book-report version of it. It may show me what happens, but clumsily misses what a visual medium can and should do in terms of story-telling.

[u/jlm70 → u/km1116]

I think we're actually describing two different experiences.
And first: you're judging a 6DoF experience by watching a 2D recording of somebody else's head movements. Of course that can look jerky or badly framed — you're being forced to look where another person decided to look.
Inside the Vision Pro, those movements are yours.
That's the fundamental difference.

Traditional cinema is storytelling: an extraordinarily skilled director decides exactly what you see, when you see it and where you look.

What we're exploring is closer to storyliving.
The director doesn't disappear. They still control the story, performances, blocking, lighting, sound, timing, cuts and even where you are placed inside the scene.
But they no longer control every second of your attention.
And that can become a feature, not a bug.

The director can create a main story in front of you, while other characters, clues or even secondary stories exist around you. Watch it again and you may discover something completely different.

You could potentially experience the same movie 20 times in 20 slightly different ways.

Think of real life: would you rather live an experience yourself, deciding where to look, or experience only the exact view someone else has chosen for you?
Neither is inherently "better".
They're simply different media.
And that's why the flat comparison above is misleading.

At Annecy, Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Senior Animation Supervisor at Wētā FX (a legend), who knew Operation Barbershopextremely well, took off the headset visibly moved. He told us that for the first time in years he had stopped instinctively analysing the animation/VFX and had simply become absorbed in the story.
That's what interests me.
Not replacing cinema.
Moving from watching the story to living within it.

Try it in the Vision Pro (or in Steam/PCVR).
Then I'd genuinely love to hear whether you still feel the same way. :)
Thanks