{"id":3637,"date":"2025-08-23T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:25:28","slug":"photodome-for-visionos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/photodome-for-visionos\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoDome for visionOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last few months I’ve had the joy of helping beta test an app that was released last week – PhotoDome<\/a> for Apple’s Vision Pro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The developer of this app, and I are both members of a slack community focused on developing for the Apple ecosystem. He had posted a question to see if any one with the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) would be willing to test early builds. As an early adopter, obviously by the fact that I have the AVP, I immediately signed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently on my podcast Games At Work dot Biz<\/a>, we talked about another application that I was a member of the TestFlight – Cassette. As I mentioned in that episode, I don’t tend to talk about apps that I am testing, unless the developer specifically asks for public feedback. I find that providing feedback to the developer is valuable, but publishing feedback about unfinished code is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that it is available, I can say that I really enjoy PhotoDome. Similar to the value of Cassette, it provides me with a way of find old memories that I haven’t seen in a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It also provides a truly immersive experience with lots and lots of options for how you may wish to view the content. You are able to pick what content you want to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The developer did a great job of creating a sky box so that you can focus on your photos, or you can just be out in the void. In my view above, I picked a nice grid of various Christmas cards from over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think that people who don’t have a AVP may not understand the interface, since it is hard to describe, but PhotoDome allows you to get a random set of image, from various collections, and present them in multiple different playful ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can have a simple grid (as you see above), moving lanes, random, and one of my favorite – bubbles. The bubbles bounce of each other, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am hoping for fully spatial video support for a total immersive overload!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I highly recommend, if you have a AVP, that you check it out. We are in the early days of creative new experiences in AR\/VR, and supporting the developers who are willing to try this out is a way that we get more and more apps and experiences!. If you have picked it up, I’d love to hear about your experience with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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