Earlier this year I was chatting with our US Sales Director James after he had spent a day at a trade show with commercial HVAC manufacturer Evapco, a new customer of ours. James relayed to me that the Apple Vision Pro was doing exactly what we'd promised: revealing the internal machinery in ways that made seasoned HVAC engineers lean in closer. But James kept checking his watch.
Five minutes for hand calibration. Another three for the interface tutorial. Two more minutes to get the gestures down, and find the app that had loaded off-center. By the time visitors actually saw the product story, over half their demo slot had evaporated.
I’d heard similar stories from other customers, that Vision Pro is a phenomenal experience. But the setup and familiarization friction can be distracting, and puts a hard limit on how many people can see it.
It was a compelling problem to fix: What if we could double the number of people experiencing these breakthrough demonstrations, and make the experience far less awkward?
Inconvenient truths about demo day math
Here's what few currently admit about using Vision Pro at trade shows. The technology is spectacular. The experiences are transformative. But when you're managing a booth with a line of interested prospects, you're not selling spatial computing. You're selling your product. And every minute spent teaching pinch gestures is a minute not discussing your competitive advantages.
At JigSpace, we’ve watched many sales engineers transform into reluctant IT support staff. They know their products inside out, can articulate value propositions in their sleep, but suddenly they're spending more time explaining how to navigate spatial interfaces than discussing specifications that close deals.
Some back of the envelope maths for a traditional guided demo:
- 5 minutes device setup (hardware fit, eye and hand tracking)
- 5 minutes familiarisation with gestures, finding apps and content
- 10 minutes viewing your content, including getting lost in spatial, but hopefully having a great immersive experience.
That's three demos per hour, and am a maximum possible of 24 across an eight-hour day.
With two devices (and spare batteries) you hit 48 people maximum. Which to me felt like a lot of ROI was being left on the table.
Building a remote control
We’ve done hundreds of customer demonstrations and user testing sessions on Apple Vision Pro. Typically we use screen mirroring to an iPad to see what the headset wearer is looking at and to intervene when they get stuck. This can range from hand gestures to literally losing sight of the app content and trying to find it behind real objects.
It is often fun, but also causes us to break out in a sweat wishing we could just press the button they’re struggling to find, or do a hand gesture for them.
A simple solution we came to was to build the JigSpace AVP Remote: the industry's first dedicated remote control for Vision Pro.
The concept is deceptively simple. After pairing, hosts control the experience of their guest viewers from their iPhone or iPad. Guests enjoy hands-free immersion. No tutorial needed. No gestures to learn. Just pure focus on your product tour or training sequence.
But simple doesn't mean easy. We had to ensure the remote networking was also compatible with our existing multiplayer modes that use SharePlay. This meant optimizing for real-time 3D scene synchronization, and ensure near zero latency between command and response. This isn't a feature, it's an entirely new way of thinking about spatial demonstrations.
Making spatial computing feel human
Last week, we deployed Jig AVP Remote with a major logistics company presenting in-progress safety training modules to their board. The CEO put on the Vision Pro, and the head of training simply guided him through the experience from her iPad. No awkward fumbling. No "can you see the menu?" moments. Just smooth, professional delivery that kept the meeting on track, and seamlessly integrated into the board meeting in the same way a Powerpoint slide-deck would.
Oliver Weidlich, Director of Design & Innovation at spatial advisory firm contxtu.al, has given over 250 people their first Vision Pro experiences. His observation from trialling the Jig AVP Remote while it was in beta resonates with everything we've seen so far:
"While they pick up the eye gaze and gesture interaction quickly, having a remote control to guide them through the powerful features and functions of JigSpace will make this process faster and smoother, while still giving them the opportunity to interact when it's relevant. I fully expect that this opportunity to provide support for people new to spatial computing will result in higher rates of customer success."
"Support for people new to spatial computing will result in higher rates of customer success." - Oliver Weidlich
The feature I'm most proud of we call progressive handover. The presenter starts with full guidance for first-timers. Then gradually grants interaction privileges as they get comfortable. It's like training wheels for enterprise spatial computing except nobody feels patronized because the experience adapts to their comfort level.
I think it is important that we don’t dumb down the experience for new users. But rather respect that your audience came to learn about your product, not our interface.
The numbers that actually matter
Remember that brutal trade show math? With Jig AVP Remote, those 20-minute demonstrations can easily become 10-minute experiences. Minimal setup, pure content. You're now running six demos per hour instead of three.
Two devices demoing for eight hours? You're serving 96 people instead of 48. Not a bad increase!
But trade shows are just the beginning. Sales teams can now take full product demonstrations to customer sites without the anxiety. Training teams can now deliver immersive education with far less technical distractions. After-sales support can guide customers through complex part requests efficiently.
Jonathan Bannister from engineering firm The Design Technology Company had early access to the app beta. His experience summed up what we were aiming to solve:
"The new Jig Remote App was a game changer for quickly getting key stakeholders to have a highly impactful visual experience. We can now effectively get someone into an AVP and look at a 1:1 scale model of their proposed design in AR. With the app, there is no need for tedious explanations about how to access the content or step through it. Removing this friction when giving demonstrations means that stakeholders focus on the content, not learning the technology to get to it."
"Removing this friction when giving demonstrations means that stakeholders focus on the content, not learning the technology to get to it." - Jono Bannister
What can the AVP Remote App control?
The remote control had a bunch of useful features:
Best of all, with visionOS 26 and iOS 26, you can mirror your Vision Pro and control it with your remote at the same time. Click to learn more about setting up the AVP Remote app.
Available for download today
You can download the Jig AVP Remote today from the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and it is included with all JigSpace Vision Pro plans. Skip the custom development in Unity and implementation consultants.
If you have a trade show next month, you could be running twice as many immersive demos with 10X less stress. If you're planning Q1 training sessions, you could eliminate the intimidation factor entirely.
Conclusion
All presentations need a conclusion and here’s ours: we built the Jig AVP Remote because we believe spatial computing's promise shouldn't be limited by operational reality. Every business investing in Vision Pro deserves to maximize that investment. Not through the brute force of more devices, but through smarter deployment.
The technology that once seemed limited to one-on-one experiences can now reach the audiences your spatial content deserves. More content engagement, less stress, and the confidence that every visitor will have a successful experience with your most compelling spatial presentations.
If you are ready to double your demonstration capacity? Download JigSpace AVP Remote today and discover how the world's first Apple Vision Pro remote control can transform your next customer interaction.
