Rogue Labs Debuts Flight Sight by Rogue Aviation for Apple Vision Pro

Built with the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive Camera and DaVinci Resolve Studio, the new app transforms flight instruction through spatial computing

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 3, 2025 — Rogue Labs, the immersive media and spatial app development studio under Rogue United, today announced the official release of Flight Sight™ by Rogue Aviation, now available exclusively on the Apple App Store for Apple Vision Pro.

Developed with the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive digital film camera and DaVinci Resolve Studio, Flight Sight blends lifelike 3D helicopter models and Apple Immersive Video to deliver a next-generation training tool for helicopter pilots and aviation enthusiasts.

“Flight Sight is what happens when real-world aviation meets spatial computing,” said Matt Barnes, founder and CEO of Rogue United, which owns Rogue Labs. “Our team has built a completely new category of flight training, one that merges technical precision with immersive storytelling. It’s more than simulation; it’s an entirely new way to learn and experience flight.”

Created in collaboration with Rogue Aviation, an FAA-certified helicopter flight training school at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport in Southern California, Flight Sight places users directly in the pilot’s seat of a Robinson helicopter, guiding them through authentic flight maneuvers, cockpit procedures, and mission-based lessons—all from the safety and comfort of their own homes.

Core features include:

• High-fidelity 3D 180º Apple Immersive Video training footage captured with the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera

• Hyper-realistic 3D helicopter models with detailed interiors and exteriors

• Flight pattern animations and spatial airport procedure maps for visualizing arrivals and departures

• Scalable learning interactions, allowing users to shrink or expand aircraft models for closer study

• Interactive startup trainer helps users learn and practice the complete helicopter startup procedure with audio and visual guidance

“Our goal for Flight Sight was to create a tool that helps pilots train smarter, safer, and more efficiently,” said Cory Hill, president of Rogue Labs. “The URSA Cine Immersive workflow allowed us to push the limits of realism while maintaining performance and precision in every frame. This is a milestone for how immersive content can serve real-world industries.”

The Flight Sight experience also appeals to non-pilots, offering breathtaking aerial perspectives of Southern California’s coastline, mountains, and cityscapes, captured entirely in Apple Immersive Video.

“We’re constantly looking for ways to make helicopter training more accessible while improving safety and knowledge retention,” said James Baker, co-owner of Rogue Aviation and chief pilot. “By partnering with Rogue Labs, we’ve delivered an experience that combines technical accuracy with true immersion. The result is something no simulator or classroom can replicate.”

Flight Sight by Rogue Aviation is available now on the Apple App Store, compatible with Apple Vision Pro, starting at $9.99. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flight-sight-pilot-training/id6741590229

As the first official product release from Rogue Labs, Flight Sight marks the beginning of the company's broader mission to develop next-generation experiences that merge immersive video, spatial computing, and interactive storytelling. With future products already in development, Rogue Labs is focused on transforming how industries—from aviation and education to entertainment and enterprise training—use spatial technology to create deeper engagement, safer learning, and measurable real-world impact.

About Rogue Labs

Based in Newport Beach, Calif., Rogue Labs is the official incubator for bold ideas, breakthrough technologies, and brand-first innovations across the Rogue United ecosystem. The studio specializes in immersive media and spatial app development, bridging the creative ingenuity of Rogue Creatives with the experience-driven DNA of Rogue Aviation, Rogue Collective, and other Rogue United ventures. Learn more at roguelabs.com. 

About Rogue Aviation                                                            

Based in Southern California at John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport, Rogue Aviation is a premier provider of helicopter flight training and aerial experiences. Known for its expert instruction and innovative training methodologies, Rogue Aviation serves student pilots, professionals, and aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Learn more at flyrogue.com.

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BLACKMAGIC’S URSA CINE IMMERSIVE AND APPLE VISION PRO ARE NOW POWERING FLIGHT TRAINING

Y.M.Cinema Magazine, 09/23/2025

Blackmagic’s URSA Cine Immersive has captured the attention of filmmakers for its ability to create Apple Immersive Video. The new development is its role in aviation training. Rogue Labs is combining the camera with Apple Vision Pro to place trainees inside highly convincing cockpit scenarios. This shift from pure storytelling to professional training highlights a broader transformation. Cinema tools are moving into domains where accuracy, repeatability, and human performance matter as much as aesthetics. This transition did not happen in a vacuum. Blackmagic has been laying the groundwork with workflow documentation and practical guidance. See Blackmagic releases immersive filmmaking guides for URSA Cine and DaVinci Resolve for a look at how capture, edit, and delivery are meant to fit together for spatial content.

FROM FILMMAKING TO SIMULATION

The original pitch for URSA Cine Immersive focused on spatial storytelling. It promised cinema grade fidelity in an immersive format. Aviation training raises the bar. Every instrument, every reflection, and every motion cue must behave as expected. When trainees trust what they see, they can rehearse rare scenarios safely, then repeat them until the response becomes automatic. For YMCinema readers, the interesting part is how an imaging pipeline built for entertainment is being validated in a high stakes environment. The camera captures an enveloping field of view with precise synchronization. The pipeline preserves detail through grading and finishing. The headset places that imagery at human scale. The result is a training loop that feels immediate and credible, rather than approximate. We have been tracking this shift for months. See Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive powers Apple Vision Pro’s next leap for background on why Vision Pro became the natural destination for this camera’s output.

APPLE VISION PRO AS A TRAINING PLATFORM

Vision Pro was introduced as a premium device for immersive entertainment and productivity. Training is now emerging as a serious application. The headset’s optical system and display pipeline make it suitable for extended sessions, where comfort and image integrity are critical. When paired with content captured on URSA Cine Immersive, the headset can present depth cues, motion parallax, and image stability in a way that supports learning rather than distracting from it. The platform piece matters. Apple Immersive Video provides a clear target for creators. That clarity reduces friction in both production and deployment. It also signals that spatial video is not a novelty. It is a format with a distribution path and a growing audience, including professionals who need realistic rehearsal environments. Our broader look at Apple’s spatial roadmap appears in Vision Air Apple AR glasses, which explores how lighter wearables could bring training scenarios to more contexts.

BLACKMAGIC’S END TO END WORKFLOW

What sets this story apart is the continuity from lens to headset. URSA Cine Immersive handles capture with a design tuned for spatial presentation. DaVinci Resolve handles ingest, color, finishing, and delivery, with export targets designed for Apple Immersive Video. That continuity reduces mismatches between what was framed and what is finally experienced. Blackmagic has been explicit about this strategy. The company is positioning URSA Cine Immersive as the capture front end for a pipeline that finishes in Resolve, then lands on Vision Pro. That is why the official guides matter. They translate creative intent into a sequence of technical steps that teams can repeat. See Blackmagic releases immersive filmmaking guides for URSA Cine and DaVinci Resolve for details on recommended practices around framing, parallax management, and delivery settings. A second dimension to watch is resolution and format leadership. URSA Cine Immersive belongs to an 8K class of spatial capture devices that aim to preserve fine detail after projection and head mounted display processing. For the competitive context, revisit Blackmagic URSA 8K Cine Immersive challenges Apple’s 8K cinema camera for immersive 3D domination.

BEYOND AVIATION

If a cinema camera and a spatial headset can satisfy aviation training requirements, the same pairing can be applied to other disciplines where realism improves outcomes. Think medical procedures, emergency response coordination, hazardous environment drills, and industrial safety walk throughs. Each of these benefits from three properties. Controlled repetition. Fidelity that preserves critical visual information. Immediate presence that drives attention and memory. For production teams, this opens a new market. Studios that understand spatial capture and finishing can build training libraries with measurable value. For camera makers and software vendors, it opens a product path. Accessories, monitoring tools, and post features that cater to training workflows will find customers who are less sensitive to trends and more focused on performance and reliability.

A TURNING POINT FOR IMMERSIVE VIDEO

The Rogue Labs project suggests that immersive video is graduating from early experiments to operational deployments. It also shows a template. Capture with URSA Cine Immersive. Finish in Resolve on Mac. Deliver to Apple Immersive Video for Vision Pro. The key is that the entire chain is coherent and well documented. For YMCinema’s audience, the signal is clear. Spatial imaging is becoming a practical tool with real use cases. The interesting stories will come from teams that master both the cinematic and the operational sides. For those building that capability, our coverage in Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive powers Apple Vision Pro’s next leap and Blackmagic releases immersive filmmaking guides for URSA Cine and DaVinci Resolve is a practical starting point, while Vision Air Apple AR glasses and Blackmagic URSA 8K Cine Immersive challenges Apple’s 8K cinema camera for immersive 3D domination map the competitive and platform horizon.

Rogue Labs Uses URSA Cine Immersive for New Apple Vision Pro App

Blackmagic Design workflow powers new experience for professional flight training.

Fremont, CA - September 17, 2025 - Blackmagic Design today announced that Rogue Labs is creating an immersive flight training experience for Apple Vision Pro using the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive digital film camera and latest version of DaVinci Resolve Studio for Mac. The innovative new experience, featuring Apple Immersive content, will be featured in Rogue Labs' new app for Apple Vision Pro, Flight Sight by Rogue Aviation, which puts viewers directly in the pilot's seat as they operate Robinson helicopters.

Rogue Labs is an immersive media and spatial app development studio. According to Rogue Labs President Cory Hill, "Our goal for the Flight Sight app on Apple Vision Pro is to create a state of the art tool that enables helicopter students to experience flight training in a way that has not been done before, and the URSA Cine Immersive camera is absolutely the best tool to accomplish that."

Flight Sight uses a mix of lifelike 3D helicopter models and Apple Immersive Video to put pilots in training in real world scenarios so they can familiarize themselves with maneuvers and procedures without ever leaving the ground. By taking an immersive approach to training, users benefit from enhanced safety while also optimizing their training time and financial resources. The app will also feature 3D helicopter models that provide interactive learning opportunities within an immersive airport environment, spatial Airport Procedure Maps that enable students to visualize their arrival and departure routes, and exhilarating flight experiences for both trainees and those simply seeking to sightsee.

Rogue Labs Senior Product Manager Corey Walter explained, “We're creating a first of its kind spatial training platform for helicopter pilots, combining the realism of stereoscopic video with the immersive capabilities of Apple Vision Pro. This format enables us to present flight training in a way that feels both physically engaging and instructionally effective. Capturing maneuvers from the pilot's point of view introduces performance training objectives in an unparalleled way, where the brain registers the event as something the student has done in real life. Research shows that immersive first person video can create a powerful sense of presence and trigger memory systems in the brain, helping learners feel like they've 'already done it once' before stepping into a real aircraft."

“We want to put our users right in the pilot's seat in the most immersive way possible, short of getting in the helicopter itself," said Rogue Labs Founder Matt Barnes. “While we were previously able to cobble our own solutions together, they were unwieldy both in production and post production. The URSA Cine Immersive is literally the answer to almost every problem we encountered, from the image quality and sharpness to the Resolve driven post production workflow. It's truly a game changer."

For the team's initial shoots, they mounted an URSA Cine Immersive in the helicopter's pilot seat to capture the perspective of a student receiving training from an instructor during take off, flight and landing. This presented many unique challenges, including how to stabilize the camera in a cramped and vibrating environment. They used the camera in a flight hangar while mounted to a crane and on a tripod to capture footage of an instructor walking around the outside of a helicopter while conducting a preflight check.

"The helicopter shots require a wide 3D field of view of the cockpit so viewers can see everything in the aircraft in detail, including what the instructor is doing with their hands and feet, the changing gauges and the 180 degree world outside the helicopter's windows. Shooting inside a helicopter is challenging because it is a tight fit," Barnes explained. "We found that completely eliminating the natural helicopter shake makes it feel fake. However, we can't have too much shake, or you aren’t able to read the gauges, and people might become sick."

Walter added, “We've been capturing real inflight training missions, everything from basic startup flows to advanced autorotation maneuvers. Shooting in that environment means you are dealing with vibration, tight quarters, and complex lighting conditions.From a product design and integration perspective, those constraints informed our decision to capture both instructor intent and student perspective in the same shot. The URSA Cine Immersive makes that possible by delivering an incredibly wide, crisp 3D field of view that performs well even in challenging lighting and tight cabin layouts."

According to Hill, the URSA Cine Immersive's large 5" HDR touchscreen and an external color status LCD touchscreen on dual sides of the camera really helps capture content in the tight space. "We love the fact that the camera has monitors and access to its settings on both sides of the camera body, as well as options to attach additional monitors. Viewing immersive footage is always a challenge, and having these multiple vantage points is a huge bonus, especially since we sometimes only have access to one seat on either side of the smaller aircraft. We also love the ease of use of the Blackmagic OS, and we are very excited for the singular pipeline that Resolve will provide for the entire workflow from production to final product," he said.

John "JR" Racine, Rogue Labs creative and technical director, echoed the sentiments:

"The URSA Cine Immersive is very user friendly. The dynamic range of the sensor is helpful for the cockpit shots, where we have a darker interior and a bright exterior. The camera's resolution and high 90 fps frame rate, as well as the extreme sharpness across the entire lens, makes it our number one choice.”

Ultimately, the Rogue Labs team chose the URSA Cine Immersive and DaVinci Resolve Studio workflow paired with Apple Vision Pro because there is no other solution available that offers the resolution and quality required for this experience.

Barnes explained, "For example, it is vitally important that the gauges can be read when in the cockpit. Only the resolution and quality provided by the combination of the URSA Cine Immersive, DaVinci Resolve and Apple Immersive Video met the strict requirements we set for this project, and, in fact, exceeded our requirements. We are very happy with the tools we have at our disposal, and we feel like we are living in the future."

We're always looking for new ways to make helicopter flight training more approachable and cost effective while increasing safety and knowledge retention.

Immersive filmmaking, when done right, connects the viewer to the story in ways simply never possible before. Nothing we've come up with previously even begins to compare with what these immersive experiences provide," Barnes concluded. "Apple Vision Pro offers an incredibly powerful spatial computing experience with exceptional displays. Now with the URSA Cine Immersive, we can truly take advantage of what's possible through this new medium. The difference in resolution, sharpness, and real immersion is night and day from the other solutions out there."

Flight Sight will be available on the App Store for Apple Vision Pro this fall. More information about Rogue Aviation, Rogue Labs, and Flight Sight for Apple Vision Pro is available at www.flightsightvr.com.

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About Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design creates the world's highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design's ReckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company's Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.