Viture One XR Lite AR/XR Glasses

Great 3D stereoscopic video viewing device.  It plays almost every flavor of 3D on YouTube.

But most importantly, it natively plays the Spatial Videos shot with the iPhone 15 Pro.

I just received from China, the Viture Lite glasses after looooooong shipping time since I chose the free option.

The key selling feature since I have the iPhone 15 Pro is direct connection via USB-C and the ability to playback the native MV-HEVC Spatial Videos.

However, if that is the only goal, one could  use the Spatialify app to play the spatial videos directly on the phone in Side By Side and freeview, or use a Stereo Lorgnette viewer.

The Viture has the Spacewalker app with a web browser which makes playing back the many flavors of 3D videos on YouTube easier such as untagged Side By Side videos or YouTube 3D (tagged with metadata).  

Note: One needs manually engage the 3D mode on the glasses if one did not purchase the optional phone XR usb-c charging accessory. (Insert Mr. Crabs Money, Money sound clip here)

Waving the phone like a flashlight as a virtual remote and tapping within the built in browser takes getting used to. (Thankfully, you can use voice search from iOS instead of typing on the phone)  

VR180 and 360 works, but one needs to buy the sixty dollar XR charging adapter(the accessory also alleviates constant presses on the button on the glasses) VR180 video was not in stereoscopic (as of this writing.).

The screen feels like a 60" screen from 6 feet away?  The quality is okay, but imagine when 4K screens are cheaper and available for these things.

There is built in diopter adjustments on the glasses, but I have bad eyes so it is isn't perfect and not everything is razor sharp, but acceptable.

If I look at side by side 3D photos, I have to long press a button on the glasses itself and it will switch display modes. 

Overall, I'm mostly pleased.  I want to access 3D movies--but they have sketchy websites and the VUDU app or browser doesn't work. (VUDU should fix this.)

I assume I need to BUY the Viture Neckband that has a Chrome box thing along with the VUDU app, but I'm not spending anymore.

iPhone 15 Pro supports USB sound cards which means 3.5mm Binaural Microphones is an option!

Tested an old Andrea Electronics USB Soundcard and a Roland CS-10EM with the iPhone 15 Pro. It works great! (Except one probably should put phone into airplane mode to minimize antenna interference).

Binaural enthusiasts.. this is the solution you've been waiting for!

I'm going to assume any standard USB-C Soundcard should work.  

I ordered a generic USB-C Soundcard to test and it turned out it is MONO only.

An audio interface card is better, but if you get a sound card, make sure it accepts stereo 3.5mm input.

iPhone 15 Pro - ProRes 422HQ to SSD Recording with a USB-C Extender Cable

I wanted to test minimal packaging configurations for recording ProRes on the iPhone 15 Pro. 

One idea is to have a shoulder bag and a long USB C extender to the iPhone. The SSD and hub will reside in a pocket or shoulder bag.

So as long as you get the proper length and proper high quality cable.  It seems to work.

I will test this out more soon!

I got a 2 feet USB-C extender cable from Amazon. (I tried a 1 meter UGREEN that failed to work)

This KXable cable seems to work.  https://a.co/d/8x0wR6g

Whisky: A Cool Wine Prrogram for running Windows Apps on Mac Apple Silicon

 https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/releases/tag/v2.2.3

I used it to see if the Windows version of StereoPhotoMaker runs better on Whisky then Wineskin.

Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=3YB6OSwRXHl26pdR&v=8KeES5llh9I&feature=youtu.be

And it works well for me. (with a bit of fiddling)

I'm using it to run StereoPhotoMaker and Stereo Movie Maker and the Google Spatial Metadata Injector tool.  (Some tweaking of the Wine Bottle configuration is maybe necessary depending on the Windows app you are trying to run.)

The ONE LUT..... holy cow. It really gets the look right on the iPhone 15 Pro with ProRes Log

I'm loving the ProRes Log ability on the iPhone 15 Pro.  

But this ONE Lut takes it to another level for me.

https://www.onelut.io/

Paired with the BlackMagic Camera app on iOS and you got a Arri Alexa kind of color look from the iPhone 15 Pro.

Now, we just need something to make our work look like Roger Deakins.

Belkin USB-C Hub for iPhone 15 Pro

The iPhone 15 Pro can shoot some amazing ProRes LOG video to an external SSD connected via USB-C.  

If you need to also connect a microphone or charge the phone at the same time along with portable SSD, you will need a good USB-c Hub.

Recommended online, the Belkin USB-C to 4-Port Gen 2 with PD (Power Delivery)  hub works.

(The battery bank needs PD also for your phone to charge via this hub.)

Nice!

Going to get a USB cable tester!

I'm so fed up with all the USB cables I have.  

It's annoying there are so many types of  USB cables--such as ones that only charge but do not pass data.

It's annoying having to figure out if I have a useless cable or not or if it a slow cable or a super fast one.

I bought this tester from Amazon to test the types of cables I have so I can separate them.

It tests almost every type of USB. USB A (The end where you have flip over a couple times to insert). USB B (Think printers), Easy to break USB Mini,  The slightly better Micro, USB-C and Apple's USB to Lightning.