Healium 4+

I’ve been trying to use the Vision Pro helium version. It says to open the Watch app for the Apple Watch but gives no instructions on how to find it. There is an app called helium smartwatch app but I open it and it says please add hot spot. the helium app on the Vision Pro or my iPhone never find the watch.

Images are very blurry on the Vision Pro.

Sorry you're having trouble. Let's get that fixed for you. First off, let's make sure you're using the right app. :) Search HEALium not Helium in the app store. 2. Please update your Healium app to the latest version. You'll find the experience resolutions have been upgraded to take better advantage of Apple Vision Pro capabilities. 3. When you download the Healium app, the Apple Watch Healium app will automatically be downloaded to your Apple Watch app. If you don't find it on your Apple Watch, we're happy to help! Just email us at hello@tryhealium.com . We also have a searchable FAQ that lists some common fixes with Apple Watch settings. https://www.tryhealium.com/faq/ Thanks again for giving Healium a try!

August 2024 update: sorry, how can you claim that you’ve raised the resolution? Do you guys even use an Apple Vision Pro? The visuals are still terrible, you need to start from scratch and stop porting over these low quality assets from Quest or whatever platform you ported them from. There’s no way to get around it, no amount of upscaling is going to solve the issues with this app. It’s like owning a 4K TV and then watching VHS tapes on them.

Another example of a developer who rushed to create an app which they either ported from previous low resolution apps on other platforms, or lazily used stock assets, without owning an Apple Vision Pro. I’m sure it looks good in their emulator but in the headset it’s low resolution. It’ll never compare to Apple’s immersive content but either developers should try, or not offer their apps at all. It’s too jarring to go from highly immersive, high fidelity of the experience of the headset into this app.

Update: August 2024- Hi LAXNYC,

Thank you for your feedback, even if it's not what we want to hear.

At Healium, our primary focus is on mental wellness. We use real-time biofeedback from wearables, like your Apple Watch, combined with meditation to help you be the best version of yourself.

It seems like you're a VR enthusiast who is excited, like us, for the beautiful experiences AVP has to offer. You'll be happy to know that our new experiences are being built for Apple Vision Pro. (For instance, we just released our new experience, Cherry Blossom, last week.)

We've noticed that Healium serves a diverse range of needs. While some use it to relax or enhance their mental resilience, others, like veterans and frontline workers, rely on it to self-manage their stress and anxiety. In our ongoing commitment to support those in crisis, we've decided to include additional content from the vault.

Our top priority will always be helping people destress quickly using a science-based approach. While we certainly enjoy the beauty that comes with AVP and love blending art with science, we did not want to limit our customers' choices by removing older experiences they love and know and instead have chosen to upgrade these as possible.


Having said that, we are always adding new experiences, and you can be assured that these are designed with the beauty of AVP in mind.

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Previous Response:
We listened to your feedback. Thank you. Please update your Healium app. Since launch, we raised the resolution on all of the experiences to take full advantage of the Apple Vision Pro. We'd love to know what you think! Thanks for checking in with us and sharing your honest feedback. It was a hustle to get the app out in time for launch but thank you for being patient with us as we incorporated your feedback.

I’m a veteran and saw this app in the Stories section today. Decided to try it out, and am coming away very underwhelmed.

The Butterfly meditation is easily the worse of the two currently available. The leaves on the bush (tree? green twig?) pop in and out jarringly during the experience, and some only seem to exist when viewed from certain angles. Then, after hatching one butterfly (and several others that don’t hatch but just appear from nothing) the narrator’s voice starting pausing the spa music every few seconds like a train conductor, repeating the same phrase over and over again. That, and the fact that it’s never quite clear what you’re doing, are very frustrating.

The other meditation, about the Solar System, is similarly vague about how it works. Are you “lighting up the universe” or is that light level the exact same at the end as it was at the beginning? Are you making butterflies grow or are they spontaneously appearing on a timer? My understanding from the Apple Story about this was that your biofeedback would produce an immediately visible reaction in the AR world. It’s what sold me on the app. Unfortunately, that great pitch is not well realized here.

Hopefully the devs get an influx of cash and use it to flesh this app out. Right now it feels cheap, like it’s held together with spit and bubblegum.

Edit: There was a "family sharing bug" where some users couldn't access our full app. Were you able to try our update? Thanks for the feedback and for your service. You can adjust difficulty settings so the experience doesn't stop and start so much by clicking the settings wheel. Your heart rate or brain patterns are like a gas pedal, stopping and starting the experience. It may feel awkward at first. This might help: https://www.tryhealium.com/faq Here's a video: https://youtu.be/c4zfgPEfNfI . We're working on alternatives to stop/start and would love to get your suggestions. Please email us at hello@tryhealium.com. If you lower your heart rate and the waveform goes above the threshold line, the planets light up. But If your heart rate goes up and your'e not meeting your threshold, the planets darken. It's similar with the Brainlink Lite headband. If your feelings of "quiet mind" for instance are meeting the mark and are above the threshold and calm, butterflies hatch out of the chrysalis. Thank you for taking the time to share your honest feedback. If you email us at hello@tryhealium.com we'd also like to learn which iphone and which wearable you're using so we can troubleshoot. We appreciate the time you took to explain to us how we can make the experience better. Thank you for your service. You might also check out the free versions of our apps with a program called Honor Everywhere which provides virtual tours to aging Veterans unable to physically travel to see their memorials. Search "Honor Everywhere" in the app store.