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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 24/06/2026

Sometimes I can’t help but think I might be crazy for spending so much time on @neontrip.app, but once in a while I hear back from fellow enthusiasts out there! It means so much to get supportive feedback like this! 🥹 Thank you for riding along! 🙏🏻 #indiedev #visionOS

5 star, App Store review saying:
New update is sweet!

From user: Tim McPeabody

The improved render quality is totally noticeable, I'm super excited about this!
This app speaks to my soul, thank you so much for continuing to work on this!

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 11/06/2026

In great company here at the Apple Developer Community Meetup at #WWDC26 🙌 @vrhermit.com and Paolo Villanueva presenting the story of Step Into Vision, a group of developers, story tellers and other enthusiasts working on #visionOS projects and supporting each other in our shared passion. 🫶

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 25/05/2026

First update in 20 months is now live on visionOS App Store! * Vastly improved render quality: Foveated rendering with adaptive resolution. * Improved immersion. * Playback controls in Control Center. * Improved UI Stay tuned for more updates with more themes and more music! #visionOS #synthwave

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 16/04/2026

Haha! Yes, I doubt there are many Vision Pros in use that run anything else than one of the latest 26.x releases. But I took it as a challenge in the spirit of retro computing. 😆👾 The new features used are custom hoverEffects, renderQuality and Swift Atomics. Next release will be harder! 😅

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 15/04/2026

Anyone out there with a Vision Pro still on visionOS 1.0? I’ve done quite a bit of work to keep the next update compatible and would love to find someone to test it. #retroComputing #visionOS

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 18/09/2025

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

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 17/09/2025

Congratulations! 🎈 SomaFM - one of the all time greatest internet radios is throwing their 25th anniversary party in San Francisco this Saturday. 🪩 Check out and support: somafm.com/XXV/ #SomaFM #internetradio

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Over 30 unique channels of commercial-free, listener-supported radio. All music hand-picked by SomaFM's award-winning DJs and music directors.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 08/04/2025

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.”

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 28/03/2025

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.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 21/03/2025

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

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.

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 14/03/2025

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

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!

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 07/03/2025

Friday night is coming up. What’s the vibe? What does listening to music look like on the inside? #visionOS #indiedev #MetalAPI

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Martin Nielsen ᯅ @martinn.dev · 27/02/2025

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! 🎛️

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 28/01/2025

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 08/01/2025

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 07/01/2025

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 📷🫶

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 06/01/2025

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 03/01/2025

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.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 29/12/2024

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

A desk with a MacBook, two external displays and an iPad. All with desktop wallpaper images that combine to show a single large image of a cool blue neon grid landscape.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 29/12/2024

It turns out that on macOS, the users “Arrange Displays” settings are available to third party apps. You see where I’m going?

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.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 18/12/2024

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.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 18/12/2024

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! 🙏🏻

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 18/12/2024

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.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 17/12/2024

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-...

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‎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...

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 17/12/2024

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 👋

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 17/12/2024

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 16/12/2024

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 16/12/2024

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

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 15/12/2024

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/

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 15/12/2024

🙏🏻 We’re hosting a birthday today. The only thing I need is to put silent audio on two .mov files. I don’t have a screenshot that shows the ultrawide display. Perhaps I could have grabbed a still from the movie, but the display was not fully visible in any single frame 😅 #visionOS #ultrawide

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 15/12/2024

I got rid of the remaining (known) bugs and uploaded images and videos. Then I realized the videos have audio of me clicking and music in the background. QuickTime has a “Remove Audio”. Nice! Upload to App Store Connect… 🚫 “This file has corrupt or missing audio” *Sigh* #buildInPublic

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

Okay, so there is a small but bug in the ultrawide wallpaper app. After a scene loads, when you start editing the whole image sometimes changes. In the meantime, here’s a link to a demo image generated by the app: (Set it to Fit Screen) neontrip.app/wallpaper/Ne... #ultrawide #visionOS

We’re on the surface of a semi transparent neon grid landscape looking straight into some nearby tubes.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

Now I only need images for App Store. I wonder if they’ll allow captures from Apple Vision Pro showing the Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display? Perhaps I’ll wait until an update to increase likelihood of approval? On the other hand Ultrawide and Wide wallpapers was the whole point. #visionOS #macOS

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

App Icon decided. Used a great image that I have been using for a while already, but not as an app icon. This will do for now. Hope you agree 😅

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

I’ve been improving app behavior, layout and handling of focus etc… A super simple website and support form is up in preparation for submission to Mac App Store review… neontrip.app/wallpaper/ I might improve that a bit while waiting for review. Now back to actual app improvements and… the icon!

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

Uh! The name was available on App Store and i got the .app domain, but there’s an app on Google Play store with almost that exact name. I am not a lawyer, but this is perhaps too troublesome. I just want to code and listen to cool music. This whole interacting-with-the-world thing is hard. 😵‍💫

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 14/12/2024

I may have found a better name for the wallpaper app.🙄 It’s unrelated to “Neon Trip”, but much better for the app itself. The idea was just to create a few ultrawide wallpapers to draw attention to Neon Trip - Music Visualizer. Why do I make it so difficult for myself? #buildInPublic #indieDev

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

It’s getting late here. 🌒 There are still some minor usability issues to work out and I just realized the app has no icon yet 🤦‍♂️ I’ll go to bed now and rise early tomorrow. ☀️ I will dream of electric neon sheep. 💤

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

After trying many different ways of setting color space/mode etc. for the wallpaper, it turned out that the preview image only “looked ok” as shown on the dark background. 🙄 I had forgotten that the render output has an alpha component. 🫥 My initial conversion worked fine on a correct image! 😅

Terminal screenshot showing the command line: git commit -m ”Fixed color issue due to alpha confusion.”

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

I fixed some issues with the scaling and cropping, but there is still some sort of pixel format / color space issue. The preview in the app is fine, but when used as a wallpaper the colors are way off. Nobody said this was going to be easy… #indiedev #buildinpublic

Desktop with a wallpaper image identical to one showed in an app window, but with the sky colored differently.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

I have given it some thought regarding how to allow a purchase of this app to carry over to a similar feature (or part of more features etc) of the music visualizer - if that becomes relevant.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

Hmm.. I agree in a way. It is just hard for me to suddenly “detach” it like that. The two apps are going to be tightly related no matter what to give me some sort of maintainability. I would probably have made this a feature of the music visualizer if it was possible to ship It on macOS now.

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Neon Trip - Music Visualizer @neontrip.app · 13/12/2024

App name registered. “Neon Trip - Wallpaper” Any objections or better ideas? 😅 This keeps things simple, meaningful and in line with the naming of the Music Visualizer. And I can keep everything under the same domain and this Bluesky account etc. #buildInPublic #visionOS

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