Gravitas Reader

Gravitas Reader is the calm, all-in-one reading room for Apple Vision Pro. Paste a link, pick a saved feed, or open something a teammate shared and Reader instantly cleans it up into elegant ArticleBlocks—tidy paragraphs, galleries, infoboxes, callouts, even embedded code or PDFs. Those blocks drive paged reading cards, the responsive detail window, and immersive museum/theater scenes so you can skim, deep-read, or pop rich media into floating panels without ever leaving the app.

Core Capabilities

• Comfortable reading cards: Selectable text, pink-underlined links, quick copy, and per-page notes keep research tidy while you stay anchored to the card stack.
• Media that behaves: Tap once to open YouTube, Vimeo, GIF, video, or PDF blocks in their own immersive panels for distraction-free viewing.
• Feed & scene control: Curate queues inside the Connect sheet, expand disclosure rows to jump between sources, and capture Scene Manager snapshots for different projects.
• Offline peace of mind: Saved stories and media cache locally so flights, labs, and spotty Wi-Fi never derail your reading flow.

Resolver Pipeline

Think of it as your personal research assistant. Reader quietly tests each source-specific resolver until it finds the best match, then hands you a clean, consistent article.

• PDFResolver: Pulls down PDFs, reads inline imagery, and hands you turned pages so big reports feel native to visionOS.
• ArXiv / PubMed / PMC: Research-ready parsers that preserve citations, authors, and figure callouts for lab reading.
• Medium & Substack: Authenticated endpoints plus RSS discovery keep newsletters readable without browser clutter.
• RSS & Atom feeds: Drop in any feed URL and Reader clusters fresh posts into the Connect sheet with thumbnails, authors, and quick-launch cards.
• WordPress & Ghost: Blog-friendly parsers that know how to treat embeds, quotes, and custom blocks.
• Reddit Theater: Threads, comments, and media are reformatted for Reader's museum view so communities feel spatial.
• YouTube & Vimeo: oEmbed handling plus our theater profile puts long-form video beside your notes instead of in another window.
• DOI Resolver: Instant Unpaywall lookups for paywalled papers or alternate sources.
• Generic Article Resolver: When nothing else fits, Reader runs a refined Readability pass to give you a clean text-first layout.
• Headless fallback: A final extractor double-checks stubborn pages so you're rarely left staring at a blank card.

Wikipedia is still an experiment backstage, so it stays off the public resolver list until it graduates.

Typical Flow

1. Launch from Control Center or open a feed notification—Reader drops you onto the first paged card instantly.
2. Skim, highlight, and jot per-page notes; tap Open on any video, PDF, or gallery to let it float beside you.
3. Follow pink-underlined links when curiosity strikes; related stories open inside Reader so you never fall back to Safari.
4. Save the current scene or feed set when you want to freeze a research thread, then recall it later from Scene Manager.

See Gravitas Reader in Action

Tour the workspace, peek at the resolver pipeline, and watch how cards, media, and floating scenes come together.