VisionPlayer: Immersive Video

VisionPlayer is a native visionOS video player built for Apple Vision Pro from the first pixel to the last photon. It plays every immersive format the headset can render — and it plays them at correct real-world scale. Whether you're watching a Spatial Video captured on iPhone, a full 180° Apple Immersive Video, a 360° VR concert, a legacy side-by-side 3D movie, or an ordinary 2D film, VisionPlayer picks the right projection, the right stereo layout, and the right decoder automatically. No settings menus to fight with. No files that "don't work." EVERY IMMERSIVE FORMAT • MV-HEVC Spatial Video (iPhone, Vision Pro, and pro capture rigs) • Apple Immersive Video (.aivu) with full spatial audio • Apple Projected Media Profile (APMP) • 180° and 360° equirectangular • Fisheye 180 / 190 / 200° — including MKX200 and VRCA220 lens markers • Cubemap, horizontal and vertical • Side-by-side and over-under stereo • Standard 2D on a widescreen virtual cinema EVERY FILE, EVERY CODEC A hybrid two-engine pipeline gives you Apple-native hardware decoding when possible — so you never see a "format not supported" wall. • Containers: MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, TS, M2TS, MPG, VOB, HLS • Video: H.264, HEVC, MV-HEVC, AV1, VP9, VP8, VC1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, ProRes, Theora • Audio: AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, ALAC, FLAC, Opus, MP3, DTS, PCM — with Dolby Atmos passthrough • Subtitles: SRT sidecars, WebVTT, embedded closed captions, and an external subtitle file picker Routing is decided by an FFmpeg-aware probe on the actual bitstream — not by the file extension — so an .mkv holding hardware-friendly HEVC still gets the fast Apple path, while an .mp4 hiding AV1 falls back transparently. SOURCES • Local files, Files, and iCloud Drive • Photo library (Spatial Videos) BUILT FOR VISIONOS, NOT PORTED • Two immersive environments — Light Studio and Dark Studio — rendered in RealityKit • Progressive Immersive Space: dial the world in and out with the Digital Crown • SharePlay a movie with friends over FaceTime, together, as spatial personas • Head-anchored playback controls that follow your gaze • Home Screen widget with recent items and quick resume • Siri Shortcuts and App Intents ("Play the last video I watched") • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Larger Text, Reduce Motion, and Captioned Audio DESIGNED WITH RESPECT FOR YOUR DATA No accounts. No ads. No trackers. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. VisionPlayer collects nothing about you or what you watch. COMFORT Immersive playback modes may cause discomfort for some users. Twist the Digital Crown at any time to return to your surroundings. REQUIREMENTS Apple Vision Pro running visionOS 26 or later.