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.

Professional projection-mapping previsualization has always meant expensive software and being on-site. Project Ion puts a real projector twin in your Vision Pro headset: cast images and video onto your actual walls, dial in the exact specs of your Christie, Barco, or Epson rig, and see the honest on-surface contrast as ambient light changes — before you rent a single piece of hardware. More than 50 testers are using it for venue previz, home theater planning, and creative experimentation.

You are the projector

In head-locked mode, you're standing in for the projector — the image throws from your exact viewpoint onto your real walls, sized and aimed by the projector twin's throw ratio and native aspect. Switch to placed mode and world-anchor it anywhere in the room. The projection casts real light onto your scanned walls through passthrough — a directional spotlight for the sharp image, and an omnidirectional fill that spills the projection's color across every scanned surface, even ones the beam can't reach.

Real projector specs, honest results

Pick a real model — Christie, Barco, Epson, Samsung The Premiere, BenQ, Hisense — and Project Ion loads its actual lumens, throw ratio, native contrast, and resolution. Toggle Honest Ambient Preview and step from blackout to daylight: watch the on-surface contrast collapse, read the recommended lumens for a legible 20:1, and see sharpness in px/cm. You learn what your rig will actually do to the room before anything ships.

A full multi-projector rig

Add as many projectors as the scene needs. Each has its own content, pose, creative look, and projector-twin spec. A DCC-style transform gizmo (axis-constrained arrows + rings, Maya/Blender-style) gives you precise placement. Affect All routes one content pick or look to every projector simultaneously; turn it off to target one at a time. Drop placeable spatial-audio speakers anywhere in the room for multichannel setups.

Content, looks, and all the test patterns

Photos, looping video (streams in about one second regardless of clip length), procedural animated effects, and a full set of alignment test patterns — grid, crosshatch, color bars, focus, and white field. Per-projector creative looks: Black & White, Sepia, Invert, Vivid, Noir, plus manual Saturation / Contrast / Brightness. The rig auto-saves and restores on every launch.

Export for MadMapper and Resolume

Tap Export rig and get two files: scene.projection.json (projectors with pose, real twin spec, and content) and a photometric rig sheet naming the real projector to rent for each surface — with throw, image size, recommended lumens, and on-surface washout estimate. Import the JSON straight into MadMapper or Resolume and start mapping.

What's coming

True perspective projective texturing onto oblique and non-flat surfaces, USDZ import for venue and facade previz, NDI support, a Mac companion, SharePlay for co-directing the same space, and a three-tier split (Consumer · Hobbyist · Professional) once per-tier gating is ready. The tester base is growing — it's a good time to join.

At a glance

✦Head-locked or world-placed projectors — each with its own content, look, and real projector spec
✦Honest projector twin: Christie, Barco, Epson, Samsung, BenQ, Hisense presets + lumens/sharpness calculator
✦Real light spills into your room — directional spotlight + fill that colors every scanned surface
✦Photos, video (streams in ~1 s), procedural effects, and full alignment test patterns
✦Creative looks per projector (B&W, Sepia, Invert, Vivid, Noir) + Saturation/Contrast/Brightness
✦DCC-style transform gizmo: axis-constrained arrows + rings for precise placement
✦Export for MadMapper / Resolume — scene.projection.json + photometric rig sheet
✦50+ TestFlight testers — open beta, join free

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Projection Mapping Update · Jun 2026

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