Neon Trip - Music Visualizer

A psychedelic reflective neon grid landscape lit up by a synthetic sun and a curved neon like band stretched across the sky .

I had hoped to get an update out along with visionOS 26, but I guess I’ve been working on too many new features simultaneously. 😅

It will ship when it ships.
Small frequent updates thereafter.🤞

In the meantime, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on.😎

#visionOS #synthwave

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Whoever set this up was probably thinking: “Uhm… There’s actually a small chance this might work. Tsnot gonna be my fault if it doesn’t.”

I think it is about what I feel about what is being communicated.

AI output feels empty to me when I can’t discern the intention from what has been “automatically filled in”.

Perhaps some day I will be able to look past the “fill” and see the artists touch?

Until then it will mostly feel empty.

A dark stylized neon grid landscape tiled by purplish pink hexagons. There’s no message, just a lot of hexagons. Oh.. and a starry night sky.

They say hexagons are the bestagons.

Bees and board gamers love them. You can never have too many!

Have a great weekend Bluesky friends!

#visionOS #synth

The Loop (Instrumental Version), by Volkor X 18 track album

How about some @volkorx.bsky.social Perhaps something like Silent Scream?

volkorx.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

Lovely magical sounds!

Mildly psychedelic space scene with glass tile neon ribbons floating in orbit above a blue planet called Yuppieter. Yuppie as in a Young Urban Pro… it’s an eighties thing.. An attempt at a pun. Look… If I could describe it in words I wouldn’t need an image. I am sorry. I am not good at these Alt texts. Cheers!

Friday night is back!

I’ve had some time to listen to music and try out some ideas for visualizations.

There’s a LOT of work to do to get this into a releasable form, but I can’t wait!

#indiedev #visionOS #synthwave

Friday night is coming up. What’s the vibe?

What does listening to music look like on the inside?

#visionOS #indiedev #MetalAPI

I finally had the opportunity to work on ray tracing with Metal 3 and want to share a little demo clip. 🪩

For now my ray tracing is not fast enough for
@neontrip.app on Vision Pro, but I have some optimization ideas to test out. 🔬👨‍💻

Stay tuned! 🎛️

Setting sun behind bands of clouds and silhouette of tropical forest islands. In the foreground a catamaran yacht with the mast dividing the sun disk in two halves.

Synthwave vibes IRL

Cool! I’ve sent you a welcome gift. 🎁🍾👨‍💻🌅

Thanks everyone for the nice response to the Wallpaper app! 🙏🏻

I’ve got some great feedback and feature requests!

Starting with some low hanging fruit: Since the renderer was built for VR, pitch and roll poses no problem 😉

#vr #gpu #metalAPI #ultrawide

‎Neon Trip - Wallpaper ‎Create your own Utrawide, Wide and Standard custom wallpapers. Customize and personalize stunning Mac desktop wallpapers inspired by retro-futuristic synthwave computer graphics. Choose from a curat...

Aaaaand here’s a link to the app on Mac App Store:

apps.apple.com/app/neon-tri...

Thank you so much for the likes and reposts, friends! 🤩

It means a lot and encourages me to create more content and features. 🎆

It would be so cool to see some screenshots and photos of your virtual displays or multi-screen setups 📷🫶

Neon Trip - Wallpaper 1.0.1 is now available in the Mac App Store! 💫

In addition to supporting visionOS Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display it introduces the cool new support for multi-display arrangements! on all Macs 💻🖥️🖥️

#ultravide #visionOS #macOS

Next update of Neon Trip - Wallpaper submitted for review. 🤞

Introduces ‘Multi Display Wallpaper’ – Automatically combine your displays for one huge wallpaper image.

You can even fine tune the layout using a handy inset slider and by positioning the crop frames manually.

Upcoming feature - spoiler alert! 🫣

You will be able apply the wallpaper cropped and sliced for your very own multi display arrangement.

There’s still some UI adjustments and testing to be done, but the basic functionality is there. ☕️

#synthwave #retro #macOS

Thanks! Working on it… 😅

A screenshot of two windows on macOS. One showing the Arrange Display settings view and another showing Neon Trip - Wallpaper with a preview image overlaid with frames outlining the same display arrangement.

It turns out that on macOS, the users “Arrange Displays” settings are available to third party apps.

You see where I’m going?

Ah I get now what you mean by “controls from the main app”. Controls from the visualizer!
Yeah, I have the same kind of speculation there.

For now I decided to stick to adjustability of a persons _pose_ in a scene which should guarantee compatibility with whatever I build for the immersive app.

Editability of line width etc. would be nice as well, but that kind of setting would be need to be scene specific.
Not all scenes should have lines for example.

I’d rather be able to expand on the kinds of scenes possible than going for a fixed set of params.

Thank you so much for the feedback! 🙏🏻

Thank you, Joseph!

It should already support Wide as well as other screen formats, but yes the preview is fixed at Ultrawide, for now.

It would be cool to base the preview on the actual connected display(s) and even supporting cropping according to their arrangement.

‎Neon Trip - Wallpaper ‎Create your own Utrawide, Wide and Standard custom wallpapers. Customize and personalize stunning Mac desktop wallpapers inspired by retro-futuristic synthwave computer graphics. Choose from a curat...

Finally!

Neon Trip - Wallpaper is in the macOS Apo Store!

Style and customize your very own #retro #synthwave
#vr inspired wallpapers.

• 100% hand coded by a
human enthusiast 🫀

• 0% auto copy ⚙️

Much more in coming updates!
The journey starts here! 💫

#indieDev

apps.apple.com/us/app/neon-...

‎Neon Trip - Wallpaper ‎Create your own Utrawide, Wide and Standard custom wallpapers. Customize and personalize stunning Mac desktop wallpapers inspired by retro-futuristic synthwave computer graphics. Choose from a curat...

Finally!

Neon Trip - Wallpaper is in the macOS Apo Store!

Style and customize your very own #retro #synthwave
#vr inspired wallpapers.

• 100% hand coded by a
human enthusiast 🫀

• 0% auto copy ⚙️

Much more in coming updates!
The journey starts here! 💫

#indieDev

apps.apple.com/us/app/neon-...

I probably should have done this earlier.

• Do you have a Mac?
• Would like to try out my new (not yet released) wallpaper app for free and tell me what you think?

Send me a direct message or reply here.

Anything else? Send me a message and say hi anyway 👋

Latest news with Neon Trip - Wallpaper.

Just submitted for review again. A video captured on the Vision Pro is no go 🛑 (I was perhaps too eager to show off the “killer feature” 😆)

I used the occasion to also fix the handling of back and forth between physical and virtual displays.

#Ultrawide #mac

While waiting for the review, I have discovered an “unfortunate behavior” of the app / the way wallpapers are treated on macOS.

I can make it nicer in an update, but it makes me a bit worried since this is a paid app. I’ll release the update quickly no matter what…

#buildInPublic

While waiting for review of the macOS ultrawide wallpaper app, I am wondering about what to focus on next.

I have a few ideas for improvements.

Is it a bad idea to work on updates to an app that has not yet been blessed by app review?

#buildInPublic

Submitted for review! 🤞🤞

In the meantime, it would make me super happy if you go and check out the website with demo videos:

• Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display (UMVD)

• Standard Mac display.

Can my hosting deal with the insane amounts of requests?
Feel free to stress test 😝

neontrip.app/wallpaper/