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visionOS App

Vivid Video Player in Spatial Computing
with Apple Vision Pro

Experience video like never before on your Apple Vision Pro. Aurora Player lets you play your favorite videos with a stunning glow effect around the screen, along with optional dynamic backgrounds such as rain or snow for added immersion.

Aurora Player app on Apple Vision Pro device

What does this app do?

A video player that plays videos with a realistic glow effect around the player content.

Aurora Player is a unique and powerful standalone entertainment application that brings your favorite media to life like never before. Whether you are watching movies, TV shows, personal video clips, or streaming content. Aurora Player is the best video player software that transforms your screen into a cinematic viewing experience by surrounding the content with a vivid and dynamic glow effect. This ambient lighting feature reacts in real-time to the video playback, adding depth, warmth, and immersion that standard video players simply can not match. The idea of this unique app is coming from the Atmosphere Lighting feature of the most popular browser extension Turn Off the Lights.

What file types do you support?

This multimedia player supports a wide array of file types including: 3g2, 3gp, asf, avi, f4v, flv, gif, hevc, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, mjpeg, mng, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mts, ogg, ogv, rm, swf, ts, vob, webm, wmv, and wtv.

Features

Realistic glow effect around the playing video player
Realistic glow effect around the playing video player
Show Honeycomb glow effect
Choose from different border styles, including the Honeycomb Glow effect
Video filter to adjust live the current video content
Video filter to adjust live the current video content
Open any YouTube video in a glow effect
Optional to open any YouTube video in a glow effect
Play the video in a RGB rotate disco effect
Optional to play the video in a RGB rotate disco effect
Show one solid color around the video player
Optional to show one solid color around the video player
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Immersive Space

Immersive Space with around your stars background
Immersive Space with around your stars background
Realistic snowfall Immersive Space
Or, if you are looking for a more wintry experience, try a realistic snowfall
Rain Immersive Space
A rain-soaked atmosphere
Smoke Immersive Space
If you are looking to completely fill the space with smoke, this captures the feeling
Magic Immersive Space
Want to see some magic experinece around your video you can use the Magic Immersive Space
Your custom solid background as Immersive Space
Your chosen custom background color for the Immersive Space

Glow Type

Choose the type of glow you want to apply to all your videos. This could be Gaussian blur, honeycomb, ribbed opaque glass, the '80s effect, and more.

Customize glow type around the video player

Bottom Toolbar

Customize the buttons below the video player. You can choose to show buttons for taking a screenshot of the current frame, repeating the video, sharing the video, controlling playback speed, opening the video on YouTube, and entering the immersive space.

Customize lunar to your style

Support Subtitle

The Aurora Player app allows you to load default SRT, VTT, or custom text files as subtitles for your local videos (such as MKV files) or network streams, and play them using a glow-effect video player.

Support to load your custom subtitles

Files app VS Aurora Player app

Overview of the default Apple Files application and Aurora Player the best video Player app available for Apple Vision Pro.

Files app
Aurora Player app
Codec supported by visionOS
Y
Y
Other codecs or containers (MKV?)
N
Y
3D SBS
N
N
3D Spatial MV-HEVC
Y
Y
180/360
N
N
180/360 SBS
N
N
Local files
Y
Y
Network SMB
Y
Y
Network DLNA
N
Y
Network WebDav
N
Y
Support VTT
Y
Y
Support SRT
N
Y
Custom Immersive Spaces
N
Y
Support YouTube videos
N
Y
Support Bilibili videos
N
Y

Get Aurora Player app

Download the Aurora Player app today and transform your video-watching experience into something truly cinematic. Whether you are enjoying movies, TV shows, or personal videos, Aurora Player adds a realistic glow effect around your content, creating a vivid, immersive atmosphere right on your screen. Perfect for movie nights or casual viewing.

Get Aurora Player from the Microsoft Store Get Aurora Player from the Apple Mac App Store
Compatible with Windows 11, macOS 14 or later, and visionOS 26.