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🌍 Polio’s Last Mile is now available on the @Apple Vision Pro! (Link in comments) This experience was built from the ground up for VisionOS, and features many new components to compliment immersive video including interactive artifacts made from real objects in the field and several exciting new visual effects. 🔥 Special thanks to @tom_krikorian for leading the VisionOS development and turning this vision into reality in collaboration with @Rem5Studios . At a time when global health faces unprecedented challenges, this award-winning immersive documentary has already reached over 10,000 global health policymakers, funders, volunteers, and advocates at major events around the world. And now, we’re thrilled to share it with the Apple Vision Pro community. 👉 Get the free app from the Store. #applevisionpro #spatialcomputing #globalhealth #endpolionow @Apple @insta360

We're building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region. The goal: a generalized neural interface to help solve any condition that originates in the brain.

Apple has made an expensive device that nobody asked for, using a new type of input that nobody asked for, it's too expensive, and there aren't any apps available. (Criticisms of the original Macintosh in 1984)

@NathieVR Job Simulator.

What's the best VR game ever made?

@benz145 @VadimYuryev If XR peeps spent the time they do arguing about the industry status just building niche PMF given the current constraints we might actually have mainstream PMF by now 😂😭

That's kind of the point though... I've been in the industry for 15 years, and that's why I'm qualified to say that Apple built something years ahead of the rest of the landscape—and I'm sure they know it. Does that mean it's a mainstream success? Nope. They still need to deliver it at the right weight/price, and I believe they will do that because they are smart enough to see that their investment in the technology up to this point was not a waste. This isn't a knee-jerk response to recent discussion; I've been on record saying that "Vision Pro isn’t worth the cost for most people" since it launched.

Either VR headset in profile pic or ᯅ in the name, every time.

John Ternus, the new CEO of Apple, has been with the company for 25 years. His only non-Apple job was four years in the late 90s at Virtual Research, a tiny Virtual Reality HMD outfit. From what I can tell, he was the lead mechanical engineer on the V8 I obtained when I was 16!

A blind man just ran a marathon using smart glasses that streamed live video to volunteers who guided him in real time.

@Lunayian migrating to visionos day by day ...

Meta has published asset guidelines for the new app Library's "Spatialized Layers" which allows developers to create/upload 3D icons like those used by OS and 1P apps.

🚀 Trade shows stuck in the 90s? VR, AR & spatial computing are rewriting brand storytelling—transporting prospects into locker rooms, global health missions, and beyond! @virtual_amir reveals how immersive tech expands markets, boosts engagement & merges with AI for intuitive experiences. Watch the full video interview: zurl.co/pQn4X #ImmersiveTech #BrandStorytelling #VRMarketing #SpatialComputing

Real ball. Real clubs. Real golf! 9 Holes at Wolf Creek in Mixed Reality is live on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=nNTEAO…

@SamCole Matching users with content they will like (and reuse the headset) has been the single biggest roadblock in building an audience above 13. The meta UX continues to go in the wrong direction. I wish their designers actually used the product.

Biggest first-time VR user problem nobody talks about: You buy a headset You have to pair it with the Meta app You download the Meta Horizon app Horizon content is everywhere You have no idea what's going on I'm sure it's in progress but we need to separate the experiences Let people find the apps and games they actually want

@tokufxug Have any 3rd parties built anything that’s public on the Meta displays yet? I haven’t been following closely.

詳細：wearables.developer.meta.com iOS：github.com/facebook/meta-… Android：github.com/facebook/meta-…

スマホアプリからRay-Ban Meta等のカメラ・マイク・スピーカーを制御できるSDK『Meta Wearables Toolkit』がv0.6にアップデート。 ・HEVC圧縮による動画ストリーミング向上 ・スマホカメラでの配信シミュレーション ・Meta AIアプリ連携の構成シミュレーション ・新型Ray-Ban Meta Optics対応

Today, we released Lyra 2.0, a framework for generating persistent, explorable 3D worlds at scale, from NVIDIA Research. Generating large-scale, complex environments is difficult for AI models. Current models often “forget” what spaces look like and lose track of movement over time, causing objects to shift, blur, or appear inconsistent. This prevents them from creating the reliable 3D environments required for downstream simulations. Lyra 2.0 solves these issues by: ✅ Maintaining per-frame 3D geometry to retrieve past frames and establish spatial correspondences ✅ Using self-augmented training to correct its own temporal drifting. Lyra 2.0 turns an image into a 3D world you can walk through, look back, and drop a robot into for real-time rendering, simulation, and immersive applications. ➡️ Learn more: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/proje… 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13036

I can confirm that new models will be out soon, they will be better than previous models. Thank you for your attention.

@NathieVR It looks good. BUT terrible functionality. Way overcomplicated. Nothing is intuitive. Sooo annoying.

How do you feel about Meta Quest’s new UI? Is it an upgrade or downgrade?

@aakashgupta Correct on Apples ecosystem moat but this is far from a hot take. And the rest of your commentary about the AVP is wrong or just lazy. Glad you got views tho.

Apple just mass-shelved a $3,500 headset, dissolved the entire team that built it, and is now building glasses that do less than Meta's $299 Ray-Bans. And the math says this is the smartest hardware decision they've made in years. Vision Pro shipped 390,000 units in 2024. Then 45,000 in Q4 2025. Production halted. Marketing cut by 95%. The dedicated Vision Products Group was dissolved and folded into standard hardware divisions. Apple killed the product without saying the word. Meanwhile Meta sold 7 million smart glasses last year. Tripled their entire prior sales in a single year. They're targeting 20 million units by end of 2026. EssilorLuxottica's stock hit record highs. Here's what Apple actually learned from the Vision Pro failure: the market doesn't want a computer on your face. It wants a computer that looks like your face already has something on it. 300 million Americans wear corrective lenses. The addressable market for "glasses that also do AI stuff" is 100x the addressable market for "headset that replaces your monitor." The four frame styles tell you everything. Wayfarer shape, Tim Cook's slim rectangles, large ovals, small ovals. Acetate instead of plastic. Multiple colors. Apple studied how people already buy eyewear and reverse-engineered a tech product into that behavior. The constraint nobody is talking about: these glasses require an iPhone. That's the entire strategy. AirPods made switching from iPhone painful. Apple Watch made it worse. Glasses that see the world through Siri and relay everything through your phone? That's the final lock-in device. Every pair sold is an iPhone retention contract worth $1,000+ per year in services and upgrades. Meta built a standalone product. Apple is building a retention moat you wear on your face 16 hours a day.

@SkarredGhost The only explanation I can make sense of is that nobody designing and approving actually uses the product (excluded some testing required for their day job). It’s been this way for years.

@virtual_amir And it's crazy they can do always worse than before...

I'm curious: does any of you all like the new interface of the Quest? Until now, I've found it pretty bad... it's a step back in usability, made just to copy Apple... #VirtualReality #VR #MetaQuest

Apple Vision Pro向けの超高画質イマーシブビデオの「生中継」可能にするアップデート。 URSA Cine Immersive 100Gは、ST 2110と100Gイーサ対応により、巨大なデータを無劣化でリアルタイム伝送。 持ち帰り収録に限定されていたイマーシブビデオが配信も可能になります。

PGA fashion take: I’m ok with bad taste and big misses … but can’t get over the @MLB logo on Cam Young’s collar. 😂🫣 @TheMasters #masters @PGATOUR

@Tyronne_LF @Apple @AppleTV @TheMasters How do we make this happen? I’ll bring my cam and wear one of those green spandex suits.

@virtual_amir @Apple Couldn’t agree more, come on @Apple and @AppleTV Apple immersive video at @TheMasters in 2027 please

The Masters app on the @Apple Vision Pro always delivers. Why watch it any other way?!? (Unless live, of course) Now we just need streaming immersive video.