SkyeBrowse Brings Drone 3D Models Into Your Office With Apple Vision Pro and Expands DJI Fleet Support

SkyeBrowse has shipped two major updates this month that together push its drone mapping platform further into the enterprise than any previous release.

On March 7, 2026, the company announced a major Flight App update expanding support to the DJI Mini 4 Pro, Matrice 400, and the full Matrice 4 series (4E, 4T, 4D, 4TD), while redesigning the WideBrowse grid scanning workflow and adding an AI chat assistant called Agent Luis.

This week, Co-Founder and CEO Bobby Ouyang posted on LinkedIn to announce a separate Enterprise VR update for Apple Vision Pro that lets investigators pull a 3D model off their Mac screen and walk through it at full scale, with the model sitting physically behind their desk, their coffee mug, their hands.

Two updates, one clear direction: SkyeBrowse wants 3D mapping to be usable by the whole team, not just the specialist.

Enterprise VR Gets Real-World Occlusion on Apple Vision Pro

The Enterprise VR update is the more striking of the two. Previous versions of SkyeBrowse’s Apple Vision Pro integration displayed 3D models as floating overlays. Ouyang described the old behavior bluntly in his post: it looked like “a hologram from a bad sci-fi movie.” The new release adds real-world occlusion, so a 3D reconstruction of a crime scene or accident site now sits spatially behind physical objects in the room. Put on the headset, look at your desk, and the model appears anchored in space, partially occluded by whatever is physically in front of it. The depth cue alone changes how investigators read a scene.

SkyeBrowse also rebuilt the gesture interface entirely. No controllers. No menus. Pinch to grab, drag to move, rotate with two hands. The interaction model matches what your hands already expect to do with a physical object. Ouyang described the workflow in his post: fly a four-minute drone video, process it in SkyeBrowse in minutes, open it in VR, walk through it at full scale. The update is live now for Enterprise VR customers. Enterprise VR is available as a standalone purchase at $8,000 or bundled at no additional cost with the five-year 100 Premium Advanced Credits package.

The use cases Ouyang highlighted are operational, not theoretical. A detective reviewing a homicide scene, a fire investigator walking a jury through a structure fire, a tactical team pre-planning entry on a building they have never been inside. All of those workflows already exist in SkyeBrowse. The VR layer adds the spatial depth that a flat screen cannot replicate.

Flight App Now Supports DJI Mini 4 Pro, Matrice 4 Series, and Matrice 400

The March 7 Flight App update for the DJI RC Pro adds autonomous flight support for a hardware lineup that covers most of what public safety agencies are actually deploying right now. The DJI Mini 4 Pro gives smaller departments a compact, affordable entry point. The Matrice 4E and Matrice 4T serve inspection and thermal workflows. The Matrice 400 handles the heavier, longer-range missions. High-performance payload support extends to the Zenmuse H30 series and L3 sensors. WideBrowse grid scanning availability on the Mini 4 Pro may be subject to DJI SDK limitations; check SkyeBrowse’s supported drones page for the current compatibility matrix before flight planning.

SkyeBrowse already supported a wide range of DJI platforms, including the Matrice 350 RTK, M300 RTK, M30 Series, and Mavic 3 Enterprise Series (3E, 3T, 3M), plus consumer platforms including the Mini 3 and Mini 3 Pro. Adding the Matrice 4 family and the Mini 4 Pro closes a gap that departments with newer fleets have been waiting on.

WideBrowse Gets Two New Capture Modes and a Live ETA Display

WideBrowse, SkyeBrowse’s grid-based scanning workflow, has been redesigned with two new capture modes that address specific documentation gaps. Cross Grids adds a perpendicular grid pass at the end of a flight, capturing additional scene detail that a single-direction grid misses, particularly useful for low-rise structures. Side Scan adds a wide orbit pass around a building to capture vertical facades, which matters for structural documentation and complex crime scenes where wall surfaces are evidence.

A live ETA display now shows estimated mission duration and coverage area before launch, so pilots can make a go or no-go call on the ground rather than discovering mid-flight that battery will not cover the area. A Previous Flights feature lets users reload and re-fly completed grid missions with identical settings, useful for construction progress tracking or repeat documentation of ongoing investigations.

Platform Improvements Include Agent Luis and Expanded Upload Support

Alongside the Flight App, SkyeBrowse shipped a web platform redesign that touches the model list, navigation bar, sidebar, and viewer controls. The headline addition is Agent Luis, an AI-powered chat assistant embedded directly in the web app. Agent Luis is trained on SkyeBrowse’s documentation and workflows, and his AI foundation draws on the field experience of Detective Luis Figueiredo, a 10-year veteran and Chief UAS Pilot with the Elizabeth Police Department in New Jersey. The goal is a support layer that understands both the software and the operational context of public safety drone programs, available around the clock.

Upload support has expanded to cover multi-video files with GPS logs, Skydio CSV logs, and ASS and SRT subtitle files as GPS sources. GLB export has also been improved. An Image Overlay tool lets users pin reference images directly onto 3D models, keeping photographic evidence contextually attached to the spatial reconstruction rather than in a separate file.

SkyeBrowse is now used by more than 1,200 public safety agencies. The updated Flight App is available at skyebrowse.com/download. A tutorial video for the Flight App update is at youtube.com/watch?v=AocmCYRL5HA.

DroneXL’s Take

These two updates read like a product roadmap made visible. The Flight App expansion is the tactical move: meet agencies where their hardware already is, lower the barrier for the whole team rather than just the power user. The VR update is the strategic bet. SkyeBrowse has been building toward this since its Pocket AI, Merge Model, and Workspace Images release last March and the Rapid and Ultra processing modes it shipped in December 2025. Each update has added a layer between raw drone footage and the person making decisions from it.

The real-world occlusion feature is the part that matters most. Floating 3D models on a screen require the viewer to mentally reconstruct spatial relationships. A model that physically occupies your office, occluded by real furniture, does that work for you. That’s the difference between presenting evidence and presenting presence. The SkyeBrowse-Paladin DFR partnership from last year already showed where this is heading: near-real-time models delivered to responders en route. The VR layer is what happens when those responders arrive at the command post.

Apple Vision Pro at $3,499 is a tough sell for most municipal police departments. Quest 3 at a fraction of that price is not. Expect SkyeBrowse to bring the Enterprise VR occlusion and gesture work to a Meta Quest-compatible version within the next 12 months. That’s when this feature actually reaches the 1,200 agencies already on the platform at scale.

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