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📌 ---> MVC Docs below actively being updated today, Sun, July 13th, 2025 <---
Cosmosent Labs, Inc. La Jolla, California -----
Photosets Burst Photo Camera Multi View Capture out soon ! Custom ARMv9-based SME Object Detection out after that !
(iOS App Store here in the States)
● Key STATs (June 10, 2015 - July 13, 2025): ● Downloads: 50.1K World, 13.9K In the States ● Updates: 777K (1.00M ?) World, 449K (546K ?) In the States ● # of App Review Approvals: 402 -----
News Update : 10 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 13, 2025 Two more things to announce today: 1.) Once we complete our Multi View Capture (MVC) tasks, we'll immediately pivot-back to working on the Custom Armv9-based SME Object Detection support that we had been working-on up-until June 21st, when we pivoted to MVC. 2.) By offering Photosets TV/Studio & Photosets' "Premium" sub ONLY via our website, we'll be able to cut deals with Corp Partners in which they pay a portion of the End User purchases, in exchange for End User (Domain & Application/Use-Case) "interest data". Something that is NOT possible via the App Store.
We simply wanted both of those points to be Crystal Clear to ALL. Especially to potential Investors & Corp Partners. ALL goes well, we'll (soon) become a Trend Setter. Also, importantly, from our perspective, Apple's App Store is catastrophically-broken & very-likely cannot be fixed with Tim & Phil running it. That last point is directed to the AAPL Board. -----
News Update : 8:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 13, 2025 FYI, Photosets v25.403, out soon, adds Multi View Capture (MVC) "slave" support for the four newest "Pro" iPhones + the M4 iPad Pro ! Which MVC "master" to release first is (still) TBD. Ultimately, we will support two MVC master options: i.) M1+ Macs running Photosets TV/Studio Priced at $11.99 USD & with FREE updates for two years,
& very-likely available for purchase & download ONLY via this website. ii.) M4+ iPad Pros running Photosets Our current thinking is that Photosets' MVC "master" support will require the app's "Premium" sub, which has NOT yet been released. And BTW, we intend to price the sub at $11.99 USD per Year,
& make it available for purchase ONLY via this website. The Gist, Cosmosent R&D is firing on ALL cylinders & focused on MVC, & by pivoting away from Tim Cook's App Store, we believe we'll be able to control our own destiny & level of success. Which we believe is NOT possible INSIDE Tim Cook's App Store. If you know Our Story you know why we feel that way. Tim Cook should have been replaced as Apple's CEO shortly-AFTER the release of the 2017 iPhone X. Phil Schiller should never have been allowed to run the App Store. Tim & Phil are responsible for Apple having left $113B+ USD of high-end iPhone revenue "on the table" over the years. i.e., due to iPhone Upgrade Cycles being longer than they should have been. i.e., the decision by iPhone owners as to when to upgrade. It's simply NOT smart to "suppress knowledge" of the Domains & Applications/Use-Cases represented by 1/3 of the Camera Tech in every iPhone. Which is precisely what Tim & Phil did ! The fact that CNBC and the so-called Pro Stock Analysts who cover AAPL for a living never picked up on it is extremely puzzling. What say you Cramer, Ives, Munster, & yes, even Niles ? Do NOT be surprised if the AAPL Board is soon forced to make a public statement regarding ALL this. And if Tim didn't keep them in the loop over the years, he's as good as gone. It's either gonna be him OR some of them. Possibly both. -----
📌 Older News Updates can be found on our News webpage. -----
📌 Section 5. Multi View Capture
The BIG Picture Perspective (tables last updated 7 AM, Tues, July 2, 2025)
| iPhone OR iPad |
Armv9 SME |
Multi View Capture (v25.403+ ?) |
Custom Object Detection (v25.404+ ?) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master |
Slave |
Post |
Real-Time |
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| M1+ Mac |
✔ (M4 ONLY) |
✔ (Photosets TV/Studio) (1) |
- |
- |
- |
| M4 iPad Pro |
✔ |
✔ (2) |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
| - |
✔ |
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| 16P / 16PM (A18 Pro) |
✔ |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 15P / 15PM (A17 Pro) |
- |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
? |
(1) Supports up-to "3" MVC slaves. Note that our preference is to RE-release our Mac-based Photosets TV/Studio app via our website,
priced at $11.99 USD, & with FREE updates for two years. (2) Supports "1" MVC slave. For this case, the iPad's Camera is under MVC UI control.
MVC Slave Support Table #1 (table last updated 8 PM, Tues, July 1, 2025)
| iPhone OR iPad |
Armv9 SME |
Camera |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wide |
Wide 2x (Lossless) |
Tele |
Tele 2x (Lossless) |
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| 17P / 17PM (A19 Pro) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 16P / 16PM (A18 Pro) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
| 15P / 15PM (A17 Pro) |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
| M5 iPad Pro |
✔ |
✔ |
? |
- |
- |
| M4 iPad Pro |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
- |
- |
MVC Slave Support Table #2 (table last updated 8 PM, Tues, July 1, 2025)
| iPhone OR iPad |
Armv9 SME |
Camera Format |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4K30 |
4K60 |
4K120 |
12 Mpx (30 fps) |
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| 17P / 17PM (A19 Pro) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 16P / 16PM (A18 Pro) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 15P / 15PM (A17 Pro) |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
✔ |
| M5 iPad Pro |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
? |
✔ |
| M4 iPad Pro |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
✔ |
---> MVC Docs below this point actively being updated today, Sun, July 13th, 2025 <---
Background Info
For seven months, starting in Dec of 2020, Cosmosent R&D was working hard on adding Multi View Capture (MVC) support to Photosets (acting as an MVC slave) & our macOS app Photosets TV/Studio (acting as the MVC master). Lots of code, mostly low-level, was Developed & Tested. But, we could NOT get it working reliably. We ultimately concluded that some interrupt in the Mac was (randomly) causing the MVC networking session to terminate. And we could NOT resolve it, even with Apple's help. So, we put it on the Back Burner. That was June of 2021. And BTW, we estimate we put 2500 R&D hours into it. And with nothing to show for it. On Saturday, June 21, 2025, & simply on a whim, we decided to resurrect MVC to see if we could get it working with newer hardware & software. It didn't work right out of the box. But it also didn't take us long to start having success with it. By the end of June, because of the success Cosmosent R&D had with it & because of the value it adds to the company, we made it our Top Priority. And it has remained so ever since. We have Enhanced & Refined it on an almost daily basis. It's pretty solid & we can Live Demo it on Request ! Feel free to browse our News Updates on our News webpage to get a feel for how it's evolved on a Day-by-Day basis.
Operational Overview
● (1) MVC master + up-to (3) MVC slaves per MVC session. ● Each MVC slave streams their Camera's Live Preview to the MVC master. Specifically here, it's UN-compressed photo data that is is Live Streamed
from the MVC slaves to the MVC master. ● The MVC master controls the Camera Shutter on ALL participants in the MVC session. Two options are currently supported, Single Tap via Photosets OR Photosets TV/Studio acting as the MVC master, OR Start/Stop via a BT remote. The latter offers Two Levels of Indirection. ● The MVC master also controls select camera controls on ALL participants in the MVC session. ● MVC is strictly ONE Camera View per iPhone OR iPad.
Who Controls OR Sends What ? (table below last updated 6 PM, Sat, July 5, 2025)
| Mode |
Remote Shutter Control |
Live Preview |
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|---|---|---|---|
| ACKs |
Burst Photo Data |
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| Master |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
| Slave |
- |
- |
✔ |
---> The two MVC tables below still need to be updated <---
We ordered an M4 iPad Pro the day it was released with the intention of adding MVC master support for it. We worked on it for just a few weeks before putting it on the Back Burner. We simply didn't have the Resources to work on it at that time. 📌 Apple's Final Cut Camera app vs. Photosets' Multi-View Capture (MVC) feature (table last updated 6 PM, Sunday, May 12, 2024)
| |
Apple's Final Cut Camera app + Apple's $49 USD/year Final Cut for iPad 2 software |
Photosets' MVC feature |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Live Monitoring of up-to 4 different angles of a single scene i.e., up-to Four Feeds |
✔ |
✔ |
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| Individual Control of each Feed |
✔ (1) |
✔ (2) |
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| Video capture |
✔ |
- |
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| High-Precision Timing Burst Photo capture (+ optional concurrently captured Audio data) |
- |
✔ |
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| Captured Content stored on the Master |
✔ |
✔ (3) |
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| Captured Content stored on the Slaves |
- |
✔ |
|
| Master |
iPhone |
- |
- |
| iPad |
✔ |
✔ (soon) |
|
| Mac |
- |
✔ (4) |
|
| Slaves |
iPhone |
✔ |
✔ |
| iPad |
✔ |
✔ (soon) |
|
| Mac |
- |
- |
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| Craft Short-Form, Multi-Scene Videos with up-to 60 scenes from the Captured Content |
? |
✔ (5) |
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(1) Capture, plus various camera controls. (2) Currently ONLY capture, but we're now working on adding support for everything, & more, that Apple supports with their Final Cut Camera app. (3) ONLY if the Master is an iPad and its Camera is participating in the MVC session. (4) via our companion macOS app for Photosets, Photosets TV/Studio. (5) Photosets includes an integrated Short-Form, Multi-Scene Video Maker with Rock Solid A/V Sync support. You can run the Video Maker on an iPhone OR iPad, OR on a Mac with the assistance of our Photosets TV/Studio macOS app, which supports custom App Group-based Content Sharing with Photosets running on a Mac. See the relevant table at the bottom of this webpage.
How we plan to test Our initial focus is offering a solid & robust single-user solution, that builds-upon what Photosets has offered for over five years. i.e., its Multi View Capture (MVC) feature. (table last updated 9:30 PM, Sunday, May 12, 2024)
| Use-Case |
Multi View Capture |
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| Master |
Slave #1 |
Slave #2 |
Slave #3 |
Slave #4 |
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| iPad + iPhone |
OLED M4 iPad Pro |
15 Pro Max |
- |
- |
NA |
| Mac + iPhone + iPad |
M1 MacBook Air |
15 Pro Max |
OLED M4 iPad Pro |
- |
- |
1.) When the MVC Master is an iPad, it is expected that the iPad's Back Wide Camera will participate in the MVC session. And as such, ONLY three MVC slaves are supported for this Use-Case. 2.) When the MVC Master is a Mac, up-to four Slaves can participate in the MVC session. -----