Vision Pro (but also iOS): Daily new Mars Rover images from another planet in 3d stereo and also HDR

With the free areoHDR app you can view immersive 3d images taken only hours ago on planet Mars with the 3 stereo cameras on Perseverance Rover!

This is the only app showing them in high contrast calibrated colors for human vision. In addition HDR is enabled for the images to provide the full dynamic brightness range.

When trying it out, please provide feedback which eye distance disparity adjustment you chose for most comfortable viewing - that slider above the image in the app - for each of the 3 camera types so I can automatically set a good default value in the next release.

  • For some reason I can't see in Testflight how many of the Vision Pro users actually have ran the app already. Also it could be that due to the wrong link I had in the beginning, that users on Vision Pro installed the 2d-only app for iOS which also runs on VisionOS and looks similar but lacks the stereo view.

    Here the correct link for the 3d Vision Pro only app variant: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5DXzaTQW

  • It's now released in the special version for Vision Pro with 3d stereo: https://apps.apple.com/app/areohdr/id6738591240 In case you had it installed before and can't see the stereo images, uninstall and re-install as you had the iPad version running.

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UPDATE: Sorry, the public link was only providing the iPad / iOS 2d app until a few minutes ago as it wasn't fully approved yet.

But this minute it went into testing state and is now accessible in the Vision OS native build with immersive 3d stereo images.

Please try and if possible report the % value you use for each of the 3 stereo cameras (Navcam, Hazcam Front, Hazcam Rear) so I can improve the default value in the next version.

Most likely the Hazcam Read is not really usable for stereo vision as it's eye distance is more than half a meter. But Navcam and Hazcam Front should work fine with about 4 - 7 times the human eye distance.

In case the maximum number of testers was exceeded already for the link posted, here a 2nd one which only contains the native Vision OS app version, not the iOS / iPad in addition like the previous link:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/5DXzaTQW