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Holofold

Real stereoscopic 3D handheld emulation on Apple Vision Pro. Fork of Bifold, built on Azahar. Not affiliated with Nintendo or Apple.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 35 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views

Niche: 3d printing software and utilities · 42 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • 3ds-emulator
  • apple-vision-pro
  • azahar
  • emulator
  • realitykit
  • stereoscopic-3d
  • +1 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The Bifold-style UI and visionOS app shell are vibe-codeable, but stereoscopic rendering of a 3DS emulator on Vision Pro requires Metal/visionOS graphics work and emulator-core integration that vibe coding alone won't reliably produce.

What it would actually take: A real version needs a visionOS app built in Swift with RealityKit or Metal, producing a stereo render path that takes the emulator's framebuffers and displays them as a spatial 3D screen. The emulator core (Azahar, a 3DS emulator) must be compiled for visionOS and its GPU output bridged into Metal textures, which needs C/C++ and graphics expertise. Performance tuning for sustained frame rates on the headset is the hard part.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 177 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #72 of 178 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 207 days after the earliest competitor.

  • DuoFold-Android · github · 2026-09-12 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • SuperMario3DWorld-VR · github · 2026-09-23 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • SpatialEMU · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • iphone-duo · github · 2026-09-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • diorama64 · github · 2026-10-18 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • holo3D-card · github · 2026-09-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • FolioLume · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • glovebox · github · 2026-10-10 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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