Apple Vision Pro and DMT: what the viral clips claim, and the 650 nm laser experiment that tests it

What is being claimed

Over the past year, short clips have spread on X arguing that you do not need a laser or any substance to see the code of reality. Posts from Danny Goler (@GolerDanny) and accounts such as @InterstellarUAP describe an Apple Vision Pro method: view a particular static image inside the headset and the same lattice of repeating forms is said to appear. The Shawn Ryan Show episode that carried the claim to a large audience is titled around the idea that the Apple Vision Pro "may have captured something we can't explain," and it is catalogued in this site's bibliography.

The claim is straightforward. A fixed image on a high-resolution headset display reproduces a pattern first described under a laser and a psychedelic. Whether it does, and what it would mean if it did, is exactly the kind of thing that is worth testing rather than asserting. This page does not settle it. It points at the version of the question that anyone can run at home and record.

Why the laser version is the one to test

The original method is optical and specific. A red 650 nm laser is passed through a diffraction grating so that it projects a regular field of points. It is cheap, it is documented, and, unlike a viral clip, it can produce a clean negative result. The full method, including the eyewear class and the safety steps, is on the protocol guide, and the equipment side is set out on the prepare page. A method that can fail a test is worth more than one that cannot. Only the first kind can be evidence.

What running it actually involves

The observation has two parts that are worth keeping separate. The first is the optical setup: a 650 nm laser, a diffraction grating, a dark room, and laser-rated eyewear appropriate to the source, which is the part this site can specify and stand behind. The second is the state under which a person observes that field, which this site does not source, dose, or advise on, and does not need to in order to make the point. What matters for a test is that the optical conditions are written down, held fixed, and repeated by more than one person. The protocol guide covers the setup and the safety class; the prepare page covers the equipment. Nothing on either page depends on the outcome coming out a particular way.

What the evidence says so far

The originating account is Danny Goler's pilot study, "Detailing a Pilot Study: The Code of Reality Protocol," IPI Letters, 2025, DOI 10.59973/ipil.158. Against it, Andrew Gallimore has argued that the effect is better explained by known optics and perception than by anything about reality itself, set out in On the DMT Laser Code of Reality Effect. More pointed still for the headset claim, a separate write-up reports detecting the same code with no laser and no DMT at all. That last result cuts in an interesting direction: if the pattern shows up without the laser and without the compound, that is evidence for a perceptual or expectation-driven reading, which is the same territory the Apple Vision Pro clips live in. No published, controlled replication has yet isolated 650 nm as the variable. That gap is the useful thing to close. Run the same setup at 532 nm and 405 nm, publish the result whichever way it falls, and you have the most decisive finding in this small field.

Where results go, including the ones that disagree

The point of writing the method down is so that observations can be collected rather than argued about. Reported forms go into the visual symbol registry through submit a symbol. Observations that show nothing, or that show something different, go into the null reports. Both are published under the same open license. A registry that only recorded confirmations would not be worth citing; the value is that it records the misses too.

Who described this

The observation was first described by Danny Goler in August 2020 and published by him in 2025. His account, his non-profit, and his interviews are linked from the profile page for Danny Goler.

Questions people ask

Does the Apple Vision Pro reproduce the DMT code? People report that a static image in the headset shows a similar pattern. It has not been established under controlled conditions, and at least one write-up argues the pattern can appear with no laser and no compound at all, which would point to perception rather than to anything captured by the device.

Do I need DMT to run the laser experiment? The optical setup, a 650 nm laser through a diffraction grating viewed in a dark room with rated eyewear, is a separate thing from any substance. This page and the protocol guide cover the observation and its safety, not sourcing or dosing.

Why 650 nm specifically? No published work has isolated the wavelength. Running the same setup at 532 nm and 405 nm would settle whether the color matters. The design is cheap and unclaimed, and publishing the result either way is the point.