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The private repos are getting restless.

14 products currently moving toward a release, pilot, or wider access — plus field notes from experiments and a peek at the internal systems behind the work. Each page says what exists today and what is still being tested.

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Current work

On the bench now

Betas, design-partner previews, and tools with a concrete next release step.

SceneAudit

Unreal Engine plugin · contact for access

Measure the gap your viewport hides.

Placement verdicts and signed offsets in centimetersCorrection vector and orthographic quad-view evidenceSurface sampling for static reference meshes

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Video QA Workbench

Design-partner preview · local-first

Stop scrubbing for proof. Review the whole render with evidence.

Seekable local review board with timestamped technical evidencePaired still and matched-video-frame comparison — regions, tiles, and heatmaps instead of a winner scoreOptional local semantic observation, explicitly separate from measured evidence

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Forage

Private beta — wishlist open

Fab's best friend. An AI-first scout and installer for the Unreal Engine packs you already own.

Creative intent in, 2–3 best-fit owned packs outMCP server + structured JSON handoff to any AI build agentGuided install — from open-it-and-you-click to hands-free, your choice

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Project Ion

Beta · 50+ TestFlight testers

Your Vision Pro is a projector now. Professional-grade projection-mapping previsualization — honest ambient simulation, real projector specs, and a full creative rig in your room.

Head-locked or world-placed projectors — each with its own content, look, and real projector specHonest projector twin: Christie, Barco, Epson, Samsung, BenQ, Hisense presets + lumens/sharpness calculatorReal light spills into your room — directional spotlight + fill that colors every scanned surface

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UnRealityKit Bridge

Collaborator beta — hardware-verified

Unreal Engine as the simulation brain. RealityKit as the renderer. The hybrid architecture Unity proved out with PolySpatial — open for Unreal.

UE simulation + RealityKit rendering — best of both worlds for MRLive Link Previewer: stream your live UE editor to device, no packaged build requiredBridgeabilityAnalyzer: classify every material before you invest in a full bridge build

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UE→RenderMan Bridge

In development — renders end to end from the button

One button in the Unreal editor. Film-grade Pixar RenderMan on the other side.

"Send to RenderMan" button in the Unreal editor — async render, no CLIUSD interchange to an out-of-process RenderMan host, verified on macOS and WindowsScene transfer: geometry, instancing, animation, lights, and cameras with real filmback and DoF

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Pinchwork

In development

Universal OpenXR hand tracking. Built in Unreal first — designed for every headset, not just one.

Pinch-to-grab with throw physics, rotate-with-hand, hide-on-grabGesture → Enhanced Input codification — rebindable, platform-agnosticPassthrough-safe material library for mixed immersion

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Apple Vision Pro + OpenXR

Ongoing engine contributions

The engine-level work behind Unreal on Apple Vision Pro over OpenXR — punch-list fixes today, Lumen and Nanite research pushing further.

Crown-exit lifecycle fix — no more reboot-to-recoverOpenLevel / ServerTravel compositor fix, upstreamed as a fork PRPassthrough translucency depth/alpha fix — real glass in mixed reality

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Constellation

Private — building toward bring-your-own-vault

Your second brain as a navigable 3D star map. Walk through your own notes on Apple Vision Pro.

Force-directed 3D graph of your markdown notes — wiki-links become edges of lightvisionOS 27: RealityKit SurroundingsLight casts a real Room Glow + selection light onto your wallsLive physics — pinch-grab and drag any star, the whole graph reheats around your hand

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Promptbook

Private — built for Agile Lens, exploring wider release

Spatial blocking and set previz for theatre on Apple Vision Pro — the stage manager's promptbook, reimagined in 3D.

Tabletop miniature staging that promotes to a full-scale, walk-in stage with one tapRecord-the-walk: perform a character's path once, play it back against the rest of the castScript reader (text/PDF/Final Draft .fdx) stays synced to the blocking timeline both directions

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Ultimate OpenXR Template

Unreal Engine 5.8 template · in development

Hands. Controllers. Your next XR project.
See it in action. Then make it yours.

Unreal Engine 5.8, Blueprint-onlyAndroid OpenXR preview with automatic headset quality presetsHand tracking and pinch gestures built in, with controller, keyboard and gamepad fallbacks

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Echo Cathedral

XR instrument · in development

Draw a line in VR.
Then play the room.

Draw, pluck, echo: a gesture becomes geometry becomes musicHands or controllersNine spatial voices across string, glass and breath

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RoomScanPro

Private — Agile Lens internal, exploring wider release

Collaborative room scanning and real-world measurement for Apple Vision Pro and iPhone.

Multi-device collaborative scanning over SharePlay — mesh streams live between everyoneDeliberate middle-finger-pinch measurement, 0.5cm/0.5in precision, imperial or metricUSDZ export via a custom ZIP packer that routes around a broken visionOS API path

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Co-Location Engine

Private — Agile Lens internal, in active development

Fiducial-marker-based co-location for Unreal Engine VR — real and virtual players sharing one room, without a shared coordinate system to begin with.

Joint N-marker rigid-body solve — yaw and position from every visible marker at once, not sequential 2-marker hacksVelocity-gated drift correction: still = untouched, walking = imperceptible, grossly wrong = clean snapArUco + AprilTag + QR detection unified behind one localizer, namespaced marker IDs

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Build notes

Field notes & experiments

Playable experiments and finished investigations, with captures and notes from the work.

A01

Surreal Minds

Prototype study · in progress

Four small Unreal worlds learning to react to photos, wishes, gestures, and keys.

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A02

Harborfolk

Playable browser prototype · active diary

A little world at human scale, with people at every station.

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A03

Persona Live

visionOS app · private, in development

Your Vision Pro Persona, driving a live MetaHuman.

read the field notes →

A04

Nightbloom

UE 5.8 experiment · private, in development

Procedural fireworks in your real sky.

read the field notes →

A05

Fable Showcase

Public Windows build

A playable experiment in how reliably AI and a headless Unreal toolchain can build a museum-scale experience with limited handholding.

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Behind the scenes3 internal systems

Production infrastructure shown for context. These are not public release promises or waitlist products.

AgileLensMultiplayer

The shared SharePlay engine every Agile Lens Vision Pro multiplayer app runs on.

Private SDK — powers every Agile Lens Vision Pro multiplayer app

Mission Control

A live radar for SharePlay sessions — watch every player, in every app, without joining the call.

Private — Agile Lens' internal SharePlay diagnostics tool

xrsim

A simulator for VR apps: boot the build, script the headset, assert on what the app actually believes — no headset, no human in the room.

Public CLI, private source — install with npm, the repo itself isn't open yet

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