moon — Todd Heberlein Moon website environment

For those wanting to give it a try in their Apple Vision Pro headset, here is the web page with the environment. It takes about 3 minutes to complete the orbit.

www.toddheberlein.com/scenes/moon

First attempt to simulate orbiting the Moon (I might have been inspired by Artemis II 😃) in a website environment for the Apple Vision Pro.
#AppleVisionPro

With 3rd party Apple Immersive Videos coming out, and Blackmagic now shipping a live version of their camera (used for the Lakers games), I expect Apple to give this a some time at WWDC.

www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/bla...

Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96 The puppeteer and his late brother Marty partnered on 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,' 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' 'Land of the Lost' and much more.

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Mysterious Overflights: Drone Swarms over Critical U.S. Locations — Todd Heberlein Confirmed drone swarms have been spotted over some of the United States’ most sensitive airspaces. It’s almost as if these drones are taunting the U.S. government.

For those wanting a summary with references of numerous instances, here is a 2025 blog post

www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2025/1/...

YouTube in Safari in full screen mode in Apple Vision Pro is great! And since it is Safari, you can create your own environments to watch YouTube in.

This weekend's environment is an empty cafe in a starfield.
#AppleVisionPro

Tiny Desk Intimate concerts, recorded live at NPR Music headquarters.

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts would be great for this.

Apple should give NPR some money for this - it would help NPR financially and provide great content for Apple Immersive Video.

www.npr.org/series/tiny-...

Screenshot of Apple TV in Apple Vision Pro

First symphony performance in Apple Immersive Video drops this Friday (which often means Thursday night PT).
#AppleVisionPro

With visionOS 26.4, Safari has a new advanced feature flag called

Immersive <model> API

Anyone know what it is for?

FYI on website environments for Apple Vision Pro

1) Updating to visionOS 26.4 will disable the feature. You need to reenable it in

Settings > Apps > Safari > Advanced > Feature Flags

2) The "Website environments" switch has moved from the top and into the long list of switches below.

Trench Cafe — Todd Heberlein Trench cafe website environment

If you have an Apple Vision Pro, you can experience the scene here:

www.toddheberlein.com/scenes/trenc...

Trench Cafe - website environment for Apple Vision Pro.

Website environments is an amazing feature in visionOS 26

Nuclear War Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestsellerFinalist, Dayton Literary Peace PrizeOne of NPR's Books We LoveOne of Newsweek Sta...

I encourage everyone to read or listen to Annie Jacobsen’s book “Nuclear War: A Scenario” - deeply researched, very accurate, incredibly sobering, and highly relevant.

www.audible.com/pd/Nuclear-W...

I feel much of the problems facing the US today are due to the policies that allow small numbers of people & families to become unimaginable wealthy.

In this instance, it is the Ellison family.

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with information assurance requirements of NATO nations.

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information without requiring special software or settings.
#cybersecurity

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Facebook as the scorpion — Todd Heberlein There is a famous parable called the Scorpion and the Fox. Facebook is clearly a scorpion. Central to their business is the collection of as much information as possible about people, so Facebook can ...

7 year old blog post continues to hold true.

www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2019/1/...

If you have website environments enabled in Safari in visionOS, you can check out this initial draft here:

www.toddheberlein.com/trench-cafe

Wrapping up the weekend Apple Vision Pro project. Still very much a work in progress, but it was fun to see the TIE fighters at full scale.

The video is just YouTube.

How come the news refer to a female under 18 (e.g., in the Epstein Files) as an “underaged woman” but you don’t refer to a male under 18 (e.g., this headline) as an “underaged man”?

I’ve been Roblox curious for years since they have the closest environment that could be considered a metaverse.

But being an adult male, I don’t want to be accosted by kids or accused of accosting kids, so I have stayed away.

Roblox needs a “safe for adults” option - no kids allowed.

Surely, someone else will report that terrible bug — Todd Heberlein I thought, “Surely, someone else will report these terrible bugs. I’ll just wait for a future macOS update.” I’m still waiting.

I expected someone else to file the bug reports and for Apple to fix them. That didn't happen.

www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2026/2/...

It is sad chapter.

I subscribed to WaPo for years, but cancelled once it began cozying up to Trump and his policies. WaPo's slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" looked like hypocrisy.

I hope the good journalists who care can find an outlet for their reporting.

Sorry to hear about this. It is a tough week for journalism.

Let us know where you end up, if you start a newsletter, write another book, or something else, so we can follow your longer-form content.

Moon through the fog this morning.

Here's why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program This program has laid the groundwork for our company's future success."

I remember the excitement around the 1996 launch of original X Prize (later renamed the Ansari X Prize) and when it was won in 2004. Space tourism for the masses seemed right around the corner.

21 years later, it seems that dream has died.

arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

It is only a matter of time before we have a Boston Massacre type event.

I fear if/when that happens, Trump will use it as an excuse to declare martial law, maybe even cancel the 2026 elections, especially if the GOP are expected to lose the House or Senate.

Apple has a lot of services out right now. I wonder if your glitch is tied to that.

Wow, Apple has a lot of network service outages right now (6:56 pm PT). I don't think I've seen this much color on their system status page before.

Perhaps Luckey missed this from Bosworth:

“With the larger potential user base and the fastest growth rate today, we are shifting teams and resources almost exclusively to mobile to continue to accelerate adoption there.”

That doesn’t sound like they are keeping a robust team working on VR.

At WWDC this June, Apple should introduce their visionOS section with, "We are continuing to invest heavily in spatial computing, and we are inspired by the all the creative ways people are using our platforms."