Last Week in AVP #94: Apple Vision Pro App of the Year Finalists, M5 Apple Vision Pro now available in Korea and Taiwan, Real Madrid Working with Apple to Create 2026 Immersive Documentary and more!
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Apple Vision Pro App of the Year Finalists (Apple)
Finalists in the Apple Vision Pro App of the Year category stunned users with unmatched immersive visuals:
Camo Studio, for offering creators a more flexible way to livestream and create videos. D-Day: The Camera Soldier, for pioneering the future of immersive storytelling. Explore POV, for transporting users through its library of Apple Immersive videos filmed around the world.
M5 Apple Vision Pro now available in Korea and Taiwan (source)
Apple has announced that the Vision Pro with M5 processor and new Dual Knit Band can be preordered now in Korea and Taiwan. Units are scheduled to arrive on Friday, November 28.
Apple announced the updated spatial computer on October 15. The M5 chip “delivers a leap forward in performance, improved display rendering, faster AI-powered workflows, and extended battery life,” Apple says.
Real Madrid working with Apple to create 2026 immersive documentary, says president Perez (source)
Real Madrid are working with Apple to create an immersive documentary due to be released in 2026, club president Florentino Perez has confirmed.
The documentary has been created exclusively for Apple Vision Pro, a headset launched by the American technology company in February 2024.
In September 2023, The Athletic reported that Real Madrid were keen on an Apple sponsorship, following a visit to the club by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Steam Frame vs Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 (source)
Virtual reality headsets have gotten increasingly popular over the past few years. Sony’s PlayStation VR and VR2, along with the just-launched Samsung Galaxy XR, and the revamped Apple Vision Pro are some examples. These tech giants join Meta in the virtual reality fray, giving us true competition in the AR/VR space for the first time.
Yesterday, Valve announced that it’s also creating a brand new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, which is a follow-up to the 2019 Valve Index headset. (Valve also announced a ton more Steam hardware.) It’s built to be a streaming-first experience that is compatible with your entire Steam library, whether your games are VR or non-VR. But how does it stack up with other headsets? Let’s take a look.
Neumann Goes Virtual for Spatial Audio Mixing (source)
Berlin, Germany (November 21, 2025)—There’s an old engineering adage, “Mix with your ears, not with your eyes,” but that insight may get left in the past as Neumann’s new Virtual Immersive Studio (VIS) application for Apple Vision Pro uses visuals to make the spatial audio mixing experience more intuitive.
VIS is a spatial audio positioning controller application that runs on the Apple Vision Pro, integrating with Apple’s Logic Pro DAW so that users can control the DAW in a three-dimensional augmented reality environment.
Porta Nubi game puzzle with logic, timing and creativity (source)
Porta Nubi still has the most original level selection and gameplay I’ve seen in a Vision Pro game. No wonder it’s on this year’s list of Vision Pro Game of the Year finalists.
Using logic, timing and creativity, you guide a beam of light to its destination – and it becomes more challenging with every level. The game transforms your own room, the app’s sky environment or even any of Apple’s environments into an immersive puzzle experience.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, now’s the time!
The first commercial created for Apple Immersive Video (source)
The first commercial created for Apple Immersive Video, “http://robot.com,” is impressive. The Apple Vision Pro Theatre app offers fantastic 3D content and stunning environments. It’s a must-install. #AppleVisionPro
This app turns Apple Vision Pro into the most convenient on-the-go film studio 🤩
Meet the finalist for Vision Pro App of the Year: Camo Studio, an app that lets you record and stream your Persona, your view, and much more directly from the headset.
What I like most is that you can add filters, effects, alternate backgrounds, or even an entire design overlay to whatever you’re showing… all in real time.
Personas have gotten so insanely good that I actually enjoy using them for content creation. You always look great, the lighting is perfect, and you can jump into your full setup within seconds.
Really looking forward to integrating this more into my workflow.
SAP has launched the SAP Immersive Match Analysis app (source)
SAP has launched the SAP Immersive Match Analysis app, which allows coaches and players to analyze and relive match moments either solo or collaboratively. You can break down key plays, view the field, and even jump into a player’s POV to re-experience the action from their perspective. The first prototype of the app was announced in February this year, and now it’s arriving in its first official version on the App Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sap-immersive-match-analysis/id6754378624
Apple Vision Pro M5 review: Spatial feelings (source)
The Apple Vision Pro M5 is physically pretty much the same as the M2 version, except with a much more powerful processor and the addition of the excellent Dual Knit Band, which makes wearing the Apple Vision Pro M5 very comfortable, even for hours. The only drawback of the new Dual Knit Band? The equivalent of sock marks on the top of your head, but this really only applies if you’re bald.
Experimenting with alternative spatial photos rendering mode on VisionOS - Like if you’d like to give it a try, and I might put it up for test on the AppStore :]
Initial attempt at converting .ply from SAM 3D to .usdz
Here’s a python script to convert gaussian splats generated by Meta’s SAM 3D to mesh objects viewable on AppleVisionPro
New partnership developing pilot training kit for Apple Vision Pro (source)
Loft Dynamics, which makes virtual reality flight simulators, is partnering with Trifork, a technology company that specializes in spatial computing, to develop LoftHOME, an at-home pilot training kit that allows pilots to practice real-world procedures and scenarios anytime, bridging at-home rehearsal with certified simulator training.
LoftHOME aims to deliver the same realism as full flight simulators in an immersive format on Apple Vision Pro, according to company officials.
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The Real Madrid documentary partnerhip is pretty cool. Immersive sports content could really showcase what the Vision Pro is capabl of for mainstream audiences. Curious to see how they handle the filming.
The Real Madrid documentary partnerhip is pretty cool. Immersive sports content could really showcase what the Vision Pro is capabl of for mainstream audiences. Curious to see how they handle the filming.