BrianHoggDec 15, 2024 at 10:44 AMEarly Access review
The version of this app is 0.11, so it’s obviously pretty early days, so I’ll take that into account in this review, but also I paid money for the app, so I have expectations about a base level of functionality.
I’ve been looking for an app like this for a little while now, and was thrilled to find it in the store. The interface is pretty rough and clearly unfinished. The app uses spatial boundaries, but it isn’t clear when it’s using one, and it doesn’t prompt for it. When you click the button that looks like it was taken from an XKCD comic that apparently lets you select the boundary — which only works when you’re actually within a boundary, otherwise it does nothing — and you click “complete” you then get an error message that there’s no boundary selected, which doesn’t go away until you reset the app.
Once that’s sorted, and once I accidentally figured out how to give the app access to my pictures folder, I was able to awkwardly select a photo. I say awkwardly because it only shows the file and and not a thumbnail, and since I was using photos imported sequentially years ago, I had to select between photo_32.jpg, photo_33.jpg, and photo_34.jpg. Annoying, but certainly not a deal-breaker.
What *was* a dealbreaker, at least until the app is updated, is once you select a photo. It appears correctly in MR, and you can intuitively position it and scale/rotate it, but once you let go of the picture, it flies off, sometimes spinning like it’s a portal to The Phantom Zone, sometimes just sliding backwards, and for some reason it doesn’t ever settle. If you let go of the image very close to you, it will sometimes mostly stay still, but it sways as if suspended by a rope from the ceiling. Sometimes when I scale, it resizes when I let go.
These issues combine to make what seems to be the sole purpose of the app — placing a photo on your wall in Mixed Reality — not work. It was a very frustrating experience to try.
I’ll be happy to look at it again once it’s been updated a bunch, but as of right now, it doesn’t do what it claims to do.
Developer responseJan 2 at 11:06 AM
Thank you for purchasing the app and leaving comments. I updated it a little bit this time, but there are still a lot of bugs and inconveniences. I'll keep improving it in the future.
