Infuse 8.3 - Immersive Mode: ON

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We’re thrilled to announce that Infuse 8.3 is available today, which includes a major leap forward for Apple Vision Pro users — plus some other great features and improvements for everyone!

Immersive Environments on Apple Vision Pro

Starting with version 8.3, Infuse lets you drop into one of Infuse’s all-new Immersive Environments, which include: Cinema, Room, Space, Sunset, and Void (pure black). These environments aren’t just decorative — they let you fully enjoy the content and setting around you, so your movie night isn’t just on a screen; it’s in the room.

Each environment includes a set of customizable settings allow things like screen size, screen angle, seating position, and more to be fine-tuned to perfection.

And the best part? All the Infuse features you love (broad format support, subtitles, metadata fetching, and streaming from network shares) now fold seamlessly into this new spatial experience.

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Other features, improvements, and fixes

A handful of additional features, improvements, and fixes are included so be sure to check out the full list of what’s new in 8.3.

Thanks!

We always love hearing your comments, feedback, and suggestions—so please feel free to continue the conversation below.

Thanks so much for using Infuse! :orange_heart:

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Can someone please post some videos or something showing what the current Vision Pro experience on Infuse is like? Trying to figure out if I care to get a used one.

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It’s really hard to showcase on video, but it’s really good!

The beta discussion has some pictures and discussion if that helps: Immersive environments for visionOS

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…and all five people who this is relevant for clapped

meanwhile the remaining 99.9% are still patiently waiting years promised features. Regardless of how you justify it, immediately jumping on Vision Pro development is a slap in the face

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Cinema mode on the Vision Pro looks stunning. Thank you for that.

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Posted this in the other thread, but adding here for visibility. This update ROCKS!

You guys have absolutely no idea how ridiculously ecstatic I am to see this update come to fruition! Thank you so much to @james and the team for hitting this milestone. The cinema and personal screening room environments are glorious!

My only real feedback from a 3D artist perspective are related to lighting and materials, and a few UX nitpicks.

Environments

  • I have seen other client applications that have incorporated dynamic lighting effects into their environments which provide diffused lighting effects from the screen. I know this is much more complicated to do when not using AVPlayer, but appears to be possible.

  • The floor textures in the personal screening room feels a bit off for some reason. Perhaps they are just a bit too bright and saturated and would benefit from being dialed back a tad.

  • An ‘Apple TV’ inspired theater would be fantastic for when you want to experience a bit more stripped down presentation without going fully into the void.

UX/UI

  • The default screen size in the cinema environment should probably be set to max. When I first dropped into it, I noticed the slider defaulted to the middle which is way too small. Easily fixed, but a bit confusing when first trying it out.

  • Perhaps you should consider using the environments icon instead of the expand arrows for activating an environment since that is a fairly established design language at this point.

Thank you again for delivering an amazing update!

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Streamlink files don’t appear to be working in 8.3

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Dunno what changed but this update finally fixed connecting to UPnP servers bug I had for 6 months :slight_smile:

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Hi @james would it be possible to explore the implementation of adjustable screen curvature? The 4xvr player currently offers this functionality, and it notably improves the user’s immersive experience. I believe that integrating this feature would not present a significant challenge.

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Just because you don’t own the device doesn’t mean devs should abandon developing for it. Lol.

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if you had read and understood my comment you’d realize same can be said for the Apple TV, aka the device ~95% of us here use Infuse with, doesn’t mean devs should abandon developing for it. Lol.

I would be surprised if VP accounted for more than 0.5% of users

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A fantastic and most welcome update! The environments are exactly what the app needed. The theater is easily my favorite

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I’ve got Apple TV and Vision Pro too. I don’t want them to stop everything for other stuff, like you want. I’m glad they’re focusing on the Vision Pro too. Just request the feature you want. Why bother asking devs to ignore the Vision Pro users for Apple TV users? Not fair.

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+1 to @yopyop said. Thanks @james and team for adding this for AVP in 8.3!

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I love the cinema environment-except the Infuse logos glowing on the sides of the screen. Real cinemas don’t put their logo next to the screen so you shouldn’t either.

Just slightly further back to the sides so you see it when you’re looking around without being distracting would be perfect!

Thanks for your work on this! Love everything else!

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love the cinema environment-except the Infuse logos glowing on the sides of the screen.

Totally agree to this. Great cinema environment but the logos shoud not be right next to the screen. Hope you fix this.

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The theater environment in the official Apple TV app on the Vision Pro is the golden standard. It doesn’t need much to look good. It’s simple and not distracting at all. If the ‘Infuse Theater’ is to remain as is, it’s worth considering another option that is simpler and more in line with what Apple has. Still, this is an excellent upgrade to the infuse experience on the Vision Pro!

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