Bezel: Spatial Phone Mirroring 4+

It sorta works until it doesn’t (iPad version review)

At first I was hoping to use it as a way to essentially at least treat it like a screen mirroring feature for the iPad as you would with a MacBook, but it was short lived because…

1. It has no audio streaming to the Vision Pro, so you’d need to connect your Bluetooth headphones directly to the iPad to make it work. In other words it is purely only a display.

2. Even with the best internet connection possible, the frame rate will be a bit choppy. It’s much more noticeable when using something like a mouse to navigate the iPad screen.

3. Screen resizing is possible, but it’s a bit tricky to find the corner. So unless you have the “Use two fingers to resize” option enabled on the Vision Pro it will be easier to resize it.

4. The screen orientation is wrong when using it on an iPad, So if I were to say, have my iPad sideways it would be displaying it vertically on the iPhone screen on the Vision Pro end and vice versa.

5. It seems to be not displaying the the full corners of the streaming screen depending on how you have the screen oriented, so expect to look back at the iPad every once in awhile or flipping between the vertical and horizontal positions of the iPad.

So until these issues are fixed in a later update, I will change my review.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your in-depth review, it's great to get this feedback!
We just released version 1.2, this adds iPad support to the app. You were previously using the iPhone app in compatibility mode. Hopefully this fixes the majority of your issues.

Allow resizing please

Works as intended, but the size of the mirror is very large and I cannot see a way to resize it. If possible, would also be helpful if I didn’t have to restart a session from my iPhone every time i lock it. The big use case here is for people using the AVP who pick up their phone and want to check notifications or quickly use it. If I have to take the AVP off to unlock and/or launch again each time from the iPhone app, then the use case is no longer relevant.

Developer Response ,

You can resize the iPhone by looking at the left or right bottom of the device and dragging the window resize indicator. Unfortunately the disconnect when locking your phone is a security feature from iPhone. The best workaround I can give is to increase the Auto-Lock timeout in Settings > Display & Brightness on your iPhone.

Great idea but not ready for prime time

I want to love this app and don’t mind paying for it, but I don’t quite see how it’s useful in its current state.

My phone connected just fine but as soon as the phone locks, mirroring stops and the app isn’t usable. Phones auto locks by themselves, so unless you go into your phone settings and permanently leave your screen on, I don’t see how this really works.

Also, you can’t interact with the phone at all so you’re limited to just staring at whatever was displayed when you connected the phone (until it locks and stops mirroring).

Finally, even on an enterprise grade Wi-Fi 6 network about 8 feet from the access point the, any motion causes lots of artifacts. Things as simple as just scrolling between home screens.

I applaud the effort here though and hope the developer can keep improving it to make it more functional. And a small feature request, could we have the option to remove the iPhone bezel so it’s just a floating screen like the rest of my Vision Pro windows? Thank you!