Month: March 2024

Vision Teleport – Apple Vision Pro

Vision Teleport for Apple Vision Pro allows you to work with a virtually unlimited number of displays from your Mac computer in spatial workspace.

With Vision Virtual Displays, a free macOS app, you even can create and setup new virtual displays, connected to your Mac. All real connected displays will be available additionally.

Universal AudioUnits (AUv3)

I started iOS development with a number of so-called audio units. These are technically spoken app extensions for realtime audio processing, which are shareable across the eco systems. In the meantime most of these audio units are super-universal and available on nearly all Apple platforms, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS and macOS.

The audio unit specific website can be found here.

Note: On visionOS, audio units are (currently?) not supported for native apps. But such app extensions are available in iOS / iPadOS compatibility mode.

VisionPiano 3D (scheduled update)

With my travel to the development lab Munich, I discovered, that the immersive piano model is located much too high, if you are sitting in front of the immersive space.

This was definitively something I could not see inside the simulator. The visionOS simulator obviously assumes that the user is standing in front of the scene. But possibly most users want to sit in front of the piano model, while listening and watching.

So I will try to resolve this issue as soon as possible, providing an update.

CineVision 3D (scheduled update)

I was able to test CineVision 3D on a real device while visiting a development lab in Munich, Germany. It turned out that the real device had a problem loading files from local storage (for instance also iCloud). This problem was undetected yet, because it actually is working without any problem on the Vision Pro simulator.

So an update for CineVision 3D is in progress, which aims to resolve this problem. Currently only URLs, located on the internet are working. So if you have the possibility for uploading your feeds to a server, this can solve the problem for now.

We occasionally get inquiries for password protected and encrypted streams.

If you want to stream URLs, which require passwords and user name, we suggest to edit the URL feeds (which are literally just simple text files) manually and encode the user name and password directly into the streaming URL with valid URL syntax.

Encrypted streams or exotic streaming formats are still not supported due to the fact that the app is using Apple‘s media streaming frameworks. Only the formats supported by these frameworks are streaming. Others may not stream and without any error reporting.

Many of the publicly available streaming URLs also may be geo-locked by their servers or temporary unavailable. So not everything in the available public demo feed is really working.

A function for saving favourites is in progress too.