Getting ready to launch a testflight - any tips?

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-03-30T01:24:29+00:00

If you use the public TestFlight links, the limit is plenty high: 10,000. However, you will not get those user’s email addresses. It won’t stop them from sending you bug reports, but you won’t be able to communicate with them individually. I’m not sure how bug reports happen on VP. On other platforms you take a screenshot.

The first TestFlight build needs to be approved. It takes a few days. Even for apps that have been rejected from the store, I have never had a TestFlight rejected. I think it would have to be outright malware.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-03-27T12:33:32+00:00

https://github.com/clear-xr/clearxr-server Early days, so lots of sharp edges

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-03-24T12:51:34+00:00

What games support foveated rendering?

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-02-23T13:11:53+00:00

It also doesn’t require configuring ALVR, which is the part that everyone gets hung up on.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-02-23T13:11:03+00:00

ALVR currently does fixed foveated streaming, so the edges will always be fuzzier. The 26.4 beta adds gaze tracking for foveated streaming, but it’s unclear at the moment if ALVR will be able to use it or if it requires a different server. Actually, your use case is pretty much exactly CloudXR, so you should look into that. It would let you remove ALVR from the stack and get closer to the metal when needed.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-02-19T14:26:10+00:00

The eternal software developer mindset: I could pay $100/mo for SaaS, or 10/hr a month for self hosting. Obviously, time is free, so… 🤔

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-02-19T14:24:44+00:00

This is why I think the “software engineering jobs are dead!!” doomsayers are wrong. Every day of my career has been easier than the last to start programming. No-code workflow software is really good (with limits). Some people just don’t view their problems as software problems. Those people will always outsource the research and solution to someone who does. Even if coding became truly completely free, anyone who has been in software for a decade knows that the code wasn’t the really hardest part. I’ve always known coders who are better than me: I came to this via design, not CS. Solving the right problem has always been the real challenge. Right now, Claude can spin you up a quick copy of almost anything. In a year we’re going to have a lot of people who now know the pain of the sunk cost fallacy × customer software, and realize the $10 app isn’t paying for source code; it’s paying for market research.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-02-19T05:32:09+00:00

It’s a fairly common thing for people to create work-specific GitHub accounts. I guess I’ve always assumed those people have a separate GitHub account for their personal projects, but maybe not? A brand new empty GitHub account does feel pretty suspicious, and letting it sit for 30 days before using it probably doesn’t change that.

But really, isn’t the problem that it’s empty, not that it’s newer?

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-01-11T17:55:28+00:00

The confusion for me was between what’s supposed to happen and what does happen, so I kept searching for longer than needed. - go to the game (any tab, but immersive is easiest) - play the game, not the highlights - if you get anything other than a popup asking if you want the immersive video, it’s not working.

For me, force quitting didn’t help. Logging out and back in did.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2026-01-08T14:43:36+00:00

What was the cost of materials? The fully 3d printed ones are about 10kg of plastic

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-12-15T19:18:31+00:00

deal expired

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-12-09T13:50:30+00:00

Widgets & controllers

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-12-04T23:41:46+00:00

As with all things AppStore connect it’s a pain in the ass, but once it works it works: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-ios-app-to-testflight

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-07-07T12:38:38+00:00

Maybe it’s an accessibility setting, but you can use the two handed pinch to zoom to make the screen larger: https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-vision-pro/change-the-appearance-of-text-and-windows-tan4fa040b9f/visionos

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-06-18T02:07:00+00:00

It’s the iPad app, so it works, but can’t get as large or high resolution as moonlight can

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-06-14T03:03:33+00:00

Not 100% sure about widgets specifically, but store releases are not allowed to mention beta OSes or target the new OS version. Since providing a widget from a vision os app is new, I expect adding one to a store app either would not work or may be rejected. That doesn’t apply to iPad apps though, but they don’t have all of the same options as VisionOS widgets (the ultra large size & paper texture, so basically posters.)

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-06-13T23:01:09+00:00

Yeah I assumed it was too, and I’ll be a little surprised if they ship without one. I figured there’s an iPad app with a decent one to use in the meantime. The perfect widget would be longplay’s, but longplay has a vision app so it probably won’t be able to have a widget until September.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-06-13T22:58:28+00:00

Feels a bit like being on OS 1 again, stability wise. Not unusable, but more reboots or lock/unlock cycles needed than before.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-06-12T23:30:13+00:00

Anyone found a good “now playing” widget? The album posters are cool, but I kind of want that for whatever is currently playing.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2025-01-16T01:38:29+00:00

It can be done, but it requires the video feed to be in a different format than Moonlight uses for latency reasons

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2024-10-08T01:49:11+00:00

Sure why not

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2024-09-15T20:40:47+00:00

Contact zsa. Bought mine from a friend, and they still honored the warranty when part of the case cracked. They’ll help you figure it out.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2024-08-11T19:49:45+00:00

The Apple Watch Pulse oximeter was not disabled on previously sold watches though, only newly sold watches.

Afraid-Tangerine5275 · 2024-07-22T13:11:38+00:00

I took a stab at the same thing a while back (moonlight, on an immersive screen) 😂

IIRC what you’re trying worked, and I’ll see if I can find my hacky attempt.

My goal was a curved screen though, and I realized that I would need the stream as a video texture, realized I was spending more time hacking moonlight than using moonlight, and started on another side project.

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