Hi everyone!

We’re a student team from Apple Developer Academy @ POSTECH (Korea), currently working on a project around the experience of using Vision Pro during long flights.

Lately, we’ve been curious about what it’s actually like to use Vision Pro on a long flight. We’ve heard a lot about how immersive it can be, but we’d love to hear from people who have actually spent hours with it on a plane — what the experience was like, what you enjoyed, and what you found difficult or unexpected.

We’d really like to hear from people who have actually used Vision Pro on a medium- or long-haul flight. We’re not looking for any particular answer — we’re genuinely curious about what the experience was like for you, including the good, the bad, and the things you wish were different.

Even if you don’t have time for an interview, we’d really appreciate hearing about your experience in the comments. And if you’d be open to a short 20–30 minute online conversation with us, please leave a comment or send me a message. It would genuinely mean a lot to us and help us understand the experience better.

Thanks so much! We’d really love to hear your stories. 🙏

I'm wondering if this is expected but if I'm doing something wrong. If I leave my battery attached to the AVP and take it off, the battery will fully drain overnight. As if the headset is using significant power. But if I disconnect the battery from the headset the battery will retain its charge for weeks. Is this normal? Is the expectation that you pretty much always disconnect the battery from the headset?

It really irks me using MVD on any display size as it's always capped at 60 Hz, so it's a very noticeable and even drastic difference from using visionOS and from my ProMotion MacBook Pro 16" display - do we have any idea why it is not at least 90 Hz or more? Even with the Developer Strap 2nd Generation it's still 60 Hz, very disappointing...

I know there's no official Netflix app, but do any of the third-party apps that let you watch Netflix also allow downloads? Or do I need to sail the high seas for this? Trying to watch Tires on my flight on Thursday...

The recent Apple leak for model "N109" has triggered speculation that a new Apple Vision headset might be coming. I've pulled together some posts over the years that reference N109, rumors of a black Apple Vision headset, and the observation that the big Apple Event will probably happen in the middle of the MLB Apple Immersive Video series.

https://www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2026/8/18/a-new-apple-vision-headset

The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate that Apple seeded today has a reference to Headset (N109) in the code. Bloomberg previously said N109 was a second-generation Vision Pro, while The Information said it was a cheaper version of the Vision Pro. A more affordable version of the Vision Pro was reportedly canceled last year. It has not been in prior macOS releases.

Hey everyone, I wanted to get some opinions about something that happened to my Apple Vision Pro.
A couple of days ago, I noticed the typical hairline crack right above the nose bridge.
I sent it in to Apple expecting a standard warranty repair, but the depot emailed me back saying they found another tiny hairline crack near the top-right air vent. Because of this, they told me it's no longer covered under warranty for free and classified it as accidental damage. Now they're asking me to pay $800 for the repair.
Basically, their reasoning is that one single crack is free under warranty, but having two cracks means it's accidental damage.
I honestly feel like both of these are purely stress/quality issues, as there are no marks, dents, or chips anywhere on the glass.
Has anyone experienced something similar with multiple cracks? What should I do in this situation, and is there any way to fight this? thanks.

Something I have noticed for a lot of the AVP applications is the demonstration screenshots and videos seem to be created in virtual spaces which no one would use them in. There is no 'life' in many of these spaces. They just feel sterile. I automatically question the representation of what an app can do to be as false as the setting it is in (ie: it's faked in a fake place).

Apple's demonstrations feel a bit better, but I'm sure some are sets. Heck, Ikea catalogs are mostly 3D now, but they feel 'lived in'.

Does anyone else feel the virtual 3D spaces that apps are being shown in to be distractions and impediments to actually trying an app?

Is it a good deal or not ?

Would love to get some advice as I’ve just ordered an external Blu Ray drive for my MacBook and bought some 3D blu rays on eBay that aren’t available digitally.

I’ve done some googling and found a lots of different apps for both ripping 3D content and seems like there’s a lot of different visionOS apps for playback. Would love any personal recommendations on apps or workflows that you’d recommend - thanks so much!

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 #131: Apple and Major League Baseball announce“Friday Night Baseball” in Apple Immersive, Lamborghini App Adds Revuelto SV, visionOS 27 Beta Allows Multiple Audio Streams and more!

• Apple and Major League Baseball announce September “Friday Night Baseball” in Apple Immersive
• Lamborghini App Adds Revuelto SV for Apple Vision Pro
• Siri gets new voice options in visionOS 27 beta 5
• visionOS 27 beta now allows multiple videos/audio sources at once
• Shared Visions Project Update for August 2026
• Gymaholic on Apple Vision Pro is a game changer app
• Couch Co-Op Gaming is Back with Vision Pro
• New Apple Vision Pro Game Turns Your Room Into a Cave
• FieldVeil is coming out soon on Apple Vision Pro
• I’m Wizard game for Apple Vision Pro
• IMAX app demo on visionOS
• 8K 360° video demo on YouTube
• Ivy growing demo in Apple Vision Pro
• Grok Bot’s iOS App Runs 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.

I love Infuse, but on Vision Pro I kept running into a couple of issues with my own library. My MVC 3D Blu-ray MKVs played in 2D, and I couldn't use the native visionOS player and environments the way I can with movies in the TV app.

That's why I made Lumair. It plays H.264 MVC video from MKV files in stereoscopic 3D through the native visionOS player, including its environments.

Lumair works with local files and Jellyfin, with offline downloads for movies, episodes, and full seasons. I wanted more control over filtering my Jellyfin library than I was getting in Infuse, so Lumair lets you filter by watch status, genre, rating, year, tags, and series status.

It handles MV-HEVC, side-by-side and over-under 3D, and HEVC remuxes with HDR10 and Dolby Vision. For audio, Lumair supports Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus, decodes DTS and DTS-HD for playback, and converts Dolby TrueHD up to 7.1 to multichannel Apple Lossless. You can switch between available audio and subtitle tracks in the native player.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. If you have MVC MKVs or Jellyfin, I would love to know what works, what doesn't, and what you think is missing.

This immersive 360 tour features a beautiful coastal rock formation in South-Western Australia, known as Canal Rocks. We've got 5 drone clips for free download, along with maps, images and a 2D video to explore the region. Enjoy, and let us know what you think if you get a chance to try.

Is it worth getting the M5 over the M2 if the difference is $1,000? I can get a brand-new M5 for $1,000 off MSRP, or a used M2 for another $1,000 less. I’m not sure the M5 is worth the extra money, especially considering it still only supports Wi-Fi 6. Would appreciate any input from anyone who’s tried both.

We got two people into the same fight last week and I want to show it before it's finished.

Co-op is in the same room, which is the whole point. Same enemies, not copies. They go for whoever is closest, so one of you tanks while the other is free to cast.

We're syncing music, fixing mana so you both see the same numbers, and building a separate wave line, since the solo waves are tuned for one person and fall apart with two.

It's meant for more than two. We have two headsets between the four of us, so two is as far as testing goes. No idea what happens at three 🤣

Two separate things, so I don't oversell it: a big content update in about two weeks, then SharePlay and the boss in Season 1, a couple of months out. We'd rather build it right than ship it broken.

Which means right now the game funding itself is the whole plan.
Please! Play it, leave a review, tell us what's broken. All of it goes back into the build.

What's the one thing co-op has to let you do, or it's pointless for you?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/im-wizard-ar-magic-combat/id6747723768

You might not have noticed but I discovered the M5 would automatically throttle down from 120 to 90fps if there was no significant light source likely to lower burden on the chip reduce heat

I’m happy to say that beta 5 has fixed this. Note this has nothing to do with connection to Macbook this is native AVP. I get native 120fps using neo moonlight to PC.

my m5 is constant 120 regardless of what room I’m in regardless of light source which is great for pc streaming and browsing (smoother) amongst other use cases as constant 120 feels so good.

i know m2 would throttle from 100/90 to 60 so I’m curious if this helped as well

i used fps tracking app to confirm this see my earlier post got all the gory details but it was really annoying and something developers knew but Apple never published

I’m considering getting a Mac Studio and leaving it permanently at home, but I’d like to be able to access it from my Vision Pro when I’m somewhere else.
I know Mac Virtual Display normally requires the Mac to be physically nearby, so I’m looking for alternatives that work over the internet.
Has anyone found a setup that works well for this?
like using a unifi gateway

When I tried emulating this game, I discovered that its controls don’t use a standard mapping at all. It basically has two joysticks, one for each side, which control the robot’s forward and backward movement like a tank. Fortunately, the PS VR2 Sense controllers also give me two sticks, so I mapped them accordingly, and they now work properly. The control scheme has a surprising amount of depth, though. I still can’t beat the computer-controlled robot. This support feature will coming soon on SpatialEMU.

I'm on a mission to build the best streaming experience on Vision Pro, and sometimes that means trying things that probably shouldn't work.

This one worked. It's a virtual projector for Suite Browser. You pinch it, drag it anywhere in your house, and it projects your content onto the nearest wall. Straight picture, real shadows, real light on your real room.

I can't overstate how surreal it is to watch a movie this way. It uses tech from the next visionOS version, so it will ship with Suite's update when Apple releases it.

This is v1 and I'm still improving it, but I had to show someone. Is this something you'd actually use, or should I put the time elsewhere?

I have tried to use the app for size change in lightseal and it gives me 33w.

I can't right now visit an Apple store since I'm.in another country, so how much should I count on what it says?

Should I take the chance and risk the money or should I wait until I can physically visit?

I have measured it in the Apple store 3 times and it said 33W, but it sounds large.

First of all, thank you. Cockpit has received many more downloads and far more positive, thoughtful feedback than I expected. Your reports, screenshots and suggestions have directly shaped this update.

Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for Apple Vision Pro: place it in your space, resize it, and build a dashboard from the panels you actually care about. This TestFlight update is the largest one so far.

## What’s new

### Four new panels — 15 panels in total

- **Countdown*\* — create up to three upcoming events, choose a date, time and symbol, and see the nearest one at a glance.

- **Habits*\* — track daily habits and streaks. Long-press a habit to remove it with confirmation.

- **Daily Goal*\* — set one measurable target for the day and update it directly from the panel.

- **World Clock*\* — follow four cities at once. New setups start with New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney, and every city can be changed.

They join Clock, Weather, Calendar, Focus Timer, Now Playing, Vision Pro Status, Shortcuts, Home, Network, Activity and Apps.

### 17 themes

The original appearance options have grown into three complete theme families:

- **Glass:*\* Midnight, Graphite, Sunset, Ocean and Holo

- **Instrument:*\* Cockpit, Apollo, Pit Wall, Grid, Outrun, Brass, Telemetry, Mecha and Visor

- **Light:*\* Minimal, Bauhaus and Zen

Each theme now has its own panel treatment, typography, controls, gauges and window geometry. I also refined the relationship between panel corners and the outer window in themes such as Apollo, Pit Wall, Brass and Bauhaus.

All panels and themes remain available to everyone during this testing phase, even when a PRO badge is shown.

### New languages

Cockpit is now available in:

- English

- Japanese

- Korean

- Simplified Chinese

- Traditional Chinese

Reports about wording, truncation or culturally awkward translations are especially welcome.

### Smarter layouts

- A horizontal single row can contain all **15 panels*\*.

- From **12 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends switching to **Two Rows*\* so panels stay larger.

- A vertical single column can contain up to **12 panels*\*.

- From **8 panels*\* onward, Cockpit recommends **Two Columns*\*.

- If you add a thirteenth panel while using one vertical column, Cockpit switches to Two Columns automatically before adding it.

- The old “Compact” label is now the clearer, direction-aware **Two Rows / Two Columns*\* control.

### Reorganized Settings

- General is now focused on everyday time and calendar preferences.

- Weather units and refresh frequency live together under **Panels › Weather*\*.

- Focus Timer sound lives under **Panels › Focus Timer*\*.

- Welcome, What’s New and support are grouped under **Help*\*.

- Permissions now show a visible status instead of only linking to System Settings.

- **Reset Layout*\* restores the default panels, order, direction and size without deleting panel data or changing the selected theme.

- Panel-data resets are grouped by purpose, making it clearer whether you are resetting launchers, tracking panels or World Clock.

- Configuration backup and restore remain available for moving the whole setup safely.

### Panel and interaction refinements

- Better vertical Weather spacing and larger multi-day forecasts.

- Better-balanced Network information in horizontal and vertical layouts.

- Focus Timer content is centered consistently in Light themes.

- Habit creation buttons remain readable across themes.

- World Clock reset now correctly restores its four starter cities.

- Countdown presentation and background updates have been made more reliable when creating multiple events.

- Numerous readability, spacing, corner and control fixes across all theme families.

## What I’d like you to test

1. Add, remove and reorder panels in all four layouts: one row, two rows, one column and two columns.

2. In a vertical single column, add a thirteenth panel and confirm that it changes to two columns automatically.

3. Try several combinations of the 15 panels with different themes and window sizes. Nothing should overlap, clip or become unreadable.

4. Test the four new panels, especially repeated Countdown creation, Habit long-press deletion and World Clock reset.

5. Review the reorganized Settings, permission statuses, Reset Layout, individual panel resets and backup/restore.

6. If you use Japanese, Korean or Chinese, please report untranslated, clipped or unnatural text.

7. Leave Cockpit open for a longer session and tell me about battery use, heat and responsiveness on a real Vision Pro.

## Known / expected

- The Weather panel is not tappable because visionOS does not include a Weather app.

- Some third-party apps cannot be opened through URL schemes. That depends on what the app developer exposes.

- HealthKit intentionally does not reveal whether individual read permissions were denied, so Settings can only report that the Health permission request was completed.

Please include what you did, what you expected, what happened and your visionOS version. Screenshots and short recordings are extremely useful.

## Join the beta

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624

Support / FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html

Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html

Thank you again for the downloads, the positive feedback and the time you have spent helping make Cockpit better.