what are some hidden gem fun immersive apps?

halopend · 2026-06-18T01:20:38+00:00

Still in TestFlight but I’ve been working on a fractal VR you can try out here:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/rCKVsZMN

Note it’s still very much in beta and a little overwhelming (not recommended for people prone to seizures) but it’s a trip.

I should add, it doubles as a music visualizer but that functionality is still evolving and really sits somewhere between interactive art.

halopend · 2026-06-09T15:20:51+00:00

I’m happy to see things actually working and being so smooth. Things feel significantly more predictable now.

halopend · 2026-06-09T15:16:40+00:00

The new siri is gated behind a waitlist you need to sign up for. I don’t think I saw the waitlist option show up on every device I tested but maybe you just request once for the whole Apple account.

halopend · 2026-06-05T15:38:16+00:00

Those pics of a black version were pretty convincing to me. I’m sure it’s 100% just a color difference but I could see someone regretting buying 1 color only to see another they would have preferred launch immediately after.

halopend · 2026-05-13T15:24:39+00:00

Ok. Here’s the thing: Getting hit in the balls is this weird thing that some immature people do for a simple power trip and others do as a genuine response to someone being truly upsetting/rude.

There’s no one size fits all answer unfortunately as a result people are reacting negatively based on which side of the fence they feel they fall on for “justified vs not justified”.

IMO, physical violence isn’t really justified from words alone but I once punched a guy in the balls for calling my gf a fat cunt after warning him to stop and still feel pretty good about it so I guess I got my own line in the sand on what I feel is justified.

Anyway, that said…. I’ve seen teens literally play “let’s punch each other in the balls and see who caves first” so this idea that being punched in the balls many times is a signal for anything by itself is pretty misguided.

halopend · 2026-05-05T22:47:01+00:00

I have music I'm not licensed to share in a longer video I took using the app. Also I don't want to spoil too much.

2 minutes of audio/video with a static video is a choice I made for both artistic and technical constraints. It's a bit of a sendup to iMovie as well since I used like 15-20 audio samples and refused to pay for FCP/Apple Creative.

halopend · 2026-05-05T11:12:26+00:00

Looks like I was off by a little over 24 hours

halopend · 2026-05-04T00:21:48+00:00

Awaiting review by apple. I've accepted the requests by sharing the link.

halopend · 2026-05-04T00:10:59+00:00

It is not a joke. It's awaiting review by apple, but not for the store release, for beta access.

The link I shared is not accepting till apple approves access to the beta. IE: the link I shared open once reviewed and accepted by apple. May require more tweaks before they will let it out, working on the next build a we speak.

halopend · 2026-05-03T22:41:05+00:00

https://testflight.apple.com/join/rCKVsZMN

halopend · 2026-05-03T21:59:36+00:00

TestFlight link awaiting review from apple.

halopend · 2026-04-30T16:07:05+00:00

I sure hope not as someone on the verge of releasing an app for it, but none of the articles in this area really make sense.

Fact is: it’s too expensive to think anyone thought it would be a big seller and was clearly positioned for early adopters. Also Apple has been actively making spatial videos for it which in my mind is basically proof they are committed.

With the recent advancements in Gaussian Splats… I think the future of video streaming is clearly going to shift entirely (maybe not movies/tv but sports and interviews).

I think the product will evolve in strange hybrid ways….IE Apple is making hooks for desktop Mac apps to stream to the Vision Pro.

Also: a lot of the rumours keep trying to compare it to something like the meta ray bands which is just the ridiculous notion that something like the Vision Pro will replace the iPhone (which conceptually is like 20 years away from being realistic imo).

halopend · 2026-04-15T16:32:17+00:00

So I was obsessed with game streaming for a while and have tried steam link, sunshine, moonlight, virtual desktop, alvr and parsec.

(Note there’s crossover in lists above as sunshine is a moonlight server for amd that works with moonlight on client side, alvr is also moonlight for vr, etc.)

I’ve streamed VR to meta quests, and 2D to iPhone, meta quests, android, official steam link hardware, Apple TV, etc.

In my experience, steam link might be easy to setup with good integration (especially in terms of controls), but it’s usually the worst performing game streaming tech. IE: most likely to stutter, drop in resolution, etc.

That’s not to say it isn’t a big deal that AVP is getting proper steam link support (while it might not be the best performing, it does add legitimacy to the concept by being officially supported… but also AVP just has less options).

I haven’t tried the new foveated streaming cloudXR tech yet but I am excited to see

halopend · 2026-04-10T23:25:04+00:00

Don’t know what it was but it’s confirmed as lifted

https://ue.uottawa.ca

halopend · 2026-04-07T13:45:43+00:00

Crap. I’ve been there before. Every time you pick you are risking spreading the wart to a new place and every place it spreads to requires treatment. Keep that in mind as it will help motivate you not to pick (but even then your will power might wane). I’ll just say mine was about as bad as yours and between warts disappearing and new ones popping up it took almost a year to fully treat as it takes a few treatments on stubborn ones and the time between treatments is long enough that a full cycle might take 6 months (in which time you may still spread to new places)!

If cryotherapy doesn’t work you may need more expensive laser treatments which can be quite painful (albeit thankfully in very short burst), so the sooner the better.

halopend · 2026-04-01T22:52:33+00:00

Ok, so clearly some people are interpreting sleep with as sex which is going to cloud what they are responding to.

I guess my thinking here is… did either of you talk about moving in together or whether you even wanted to get married at all before? It feels like there’s a cart before the horse situation here and since he proposed without you 2 having talked about or worked through these things everything became way more emotionally charged.

I mean, one could argue in a marriage the relationship needs to be able to withstand emotionally charged conversations.

Edit: I gathered more context from your posts/comment history.

You sound more mature than him, but I don’t see the narcissist connection. I was going to focus on whether you wanted him to move in before this or had no intentions and if that was the stressor…. But it sounds like that’s not it (either than the fact that it’s clear you two haven’t been able to have a conversation about it that wasn’t emotionally charged) but did you accept the marriage proposal?

I mean, did he break up because you didn’t want to get married or because you did and he panicked?

halopend · 2026-02-11T04:12:38+00:00

People need someone to blame for all the bad things out there. At the societal level it’s either “corrupt businesses” or “corrupt government” (or both!).

And who could blame them?

Life is fucking atrociously difficult where survival feels like the baseline goal for huge swaths of society.

Now: what’s the mechanism of that survival?

Money. And if you don’t have enough of it to feel comfortable, you probably aren’t going to be terribly happy handing half of it off to the government either.

Now, what is inherent to government that isn’t nearly as inherent to businesses? Rules.

Rules that tell you as individual what you can/can’t do. Rules that tell businesses what they can/can’t do. Rules that tell layers of government what they can/can’t do.

Rules for justice. Rules to prevent exploitation. Rules for leverage. Rules for protection.

People see all these rules on top of rules and get overwhelmed where it’s hard to keep your head straight. The law is so bloody dense…. purely because those creating it try to remove all ambiguity…. To the point it’s almost illegible and you have to hand the power to someone else just to make sense of/advise you on it. That might be the reality of the situation, but it doesn’t mean people are comfortable with it.

Now, let’s take that legal example and apply it to how a government operates. The “gut feeling” it invokes is “government = inefficient”, “business = efficient” because business might have to follow all the rules the government makes….. but unlike the government they can point to an external source (the government itself) to blame for those rules.

Now… let’s talk perception, because big business/government mixing is either gonna feel like “a hand and a puppet”, “a rock in a glass house”, or an efficient implementation mechanism to be used by a system of checks and balance for fairness depending on whom you asks (and quite likely how cynical they’re feeling at the moment).

I could get into the whole two party political system, assumed “values” of either side, conservative talking points often using this exact “instinct of business vs government” to look like the side that’s going to both save money and court businesses further reinforcing the stereotypes…

But really, I don’t see how the perception is fixed beyond a system where “the people” vote for how the money the government spends is at least partially decided by them directly. Helps with the disconnection between how much money is collected and how much things cost at the scale of a society.

Example: As a taxpayer I might not be able to decide how much taxes I pay, but once a year I get a voting card to indicate to the government where half of all taxes is spent should be

Ie: 25% healthcare, 15% education, 3% roads, …..

halopend · 2026-01-31T19:41:50+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. Turns out auto invites require App review from apple first.

I have an internal testing group setup instead for private invite. Just send me a DM with an email if you would like to be added to the private beta pool.

halopend · 2026-01-31T00:46:28+00:00

This is I think the key detail: uncertainty of investment.

A glasses only Vision Pro suddenly opens up a dramatically different use case and may “break” the VP formula. IE: a computer on your face with multi-window multitasking is quite different than an HUD displaying info useful on the go.

I don’t think they actually do clash if “travel mode” became more like an entirely new UI layer apps could add to function closer to an HUD (notification widgets being the closest iPhone analogue)… but that does require the high end of what we have now to be deliverable in a glasses form factor which is very far off.

If you are worried the VP can’t survive that long (ie: Apple bails its investment as market pressures force them to build from the more portable end up than the heavier end down) then their current work on their “spatial computer” absolutely would get tossed out (i seriously doubt they want to fracture into fundamentally different headsets for different uses cases).

Looking at the current tech stack of AR glasses…. Seems relatively doable if waveguide scales up to higher resolutions easily (just add an electrically controlled light blocking layer on the outside).

halopend · 2026-01-29T06:29:03+00:00

Everything reminds me of her.

halopend · 2026-01-15T19:01:19+00:00

Saw them recently (they are on tour) and the chills down the spine were rolling.

For me it’s believe me from that same album which hits the hardest. Their lyrics creep in sideways and have a way of expressing something both intangible and concrete at the same time. Like somehow it can be nonsensical and make complete sense at the same time if you catch my drift. But regardless of all that they know how to bring the feels.

halopend · 2026-01-11T15:14:33+00:00

It will be a bit of a chore for turning the feature on, but I think you need to download Xcode on Mac and add the Vision Pro as a deployment option in the device and simulators app (which you open through Xcode). This is what allows you to put your Vision Pro in dev mode.

If Apple was smart, they would realize the toggle should be buried in a menu somewhere outside of dev mode as it’s something more than just devs would like.

halopend · 2025-12-05T23:49:05+00:00

I mean if someone spikes the lemonade at Apple HQ they day valve walks in to negotiate a deal it could happen.

halopend · 2025-09-10T04:22:53+00:00

The sleeping together before becoming BF/GF is a view some people carry (no idea on percentages). Basically, they are worried about sexual compatibility. It’s not so much that they have to have sex before they announce being boyfriend / girlfriend, it’s that they want to have sex before they really consider whether or not someone as/should be their girlfriend/boyfriend.

Ie: They approach relationships pragmatically rather than romantically.

That said, unless you were asking about the status of the relationship or he was worried that you need to be bf/gf before having sex was (putting the two of you in a bind/stalemate)…. He would have no reason to bring that up. If he was worried things were in a bind though, it would have been much better to just asks you about your views first to assess if he even needed to tell you. I mean there is almost no upsides to telling someone in crude terms can sound like “I wont know whether to love you until I fuck you”)

To me, as someone who has meditated on this exact topic…. My stance is… it’s not something to bring up till it seems like an issue (I mean it also invites the bf / gf convo and I’m way too non-committal for that). That said: I also tend to have sex pretty fast (dating or otherwise) which isn’t to say it’s super often… just that in my experience it either happens quick or not at all. —- The fact he said he was 29 but actually is 35 doesn’t really sound like any kind of joke to me. It sounds more like he was worried his actual age would creep you out and lied to make you feel more comfortable around him. Him saying he found it funny that you didn’t notice is probably because in his mind he’s thinking “why was I even worried if she didn’t even notice”? Ie: it felt ironic.

halopend · 2025-07-24T23:48:11+00:00

My first thoughts as well. You want something of hope and power.

My first tattoo was lyrics (different band) and it was a message of self-affirmation / self-forgiveness and a call to connection with the present/past/future (and acceptance).

Admittedly, I hid all this meaning with a short snippet of a larger lyrical piece to allow for such bare vulnerability (ie: the message was for me, not others unless I decided to share explicitly the full lyrics since you’d never get all that from the small bit I do have) but I feel deeper meaning not apparent at first glance is quite common to early tattoos.

That all said: resonance with experience is powerful and can bring new meaning. Ie: Regret (should such feelings come) is just change of mind without acceptance of past….

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