Open for Display. Expert Controls. Fly your Files.

Over 100 file extensions, one app, each shown the way it's meant to be — documents, books and comics, photos and music, video, 360s and 3D. Map them, sticker them, wire them to knobs, and play the whole job with one key: you at the controls, the room on a clean screen.

display · organize · sticker

vxKite on macOS showing an illustrated book's page: Viking ships in a fjord vxKite on Windows showing an illustrated book's page: Viking ships in a fjord

How it flows

  1. A three.js scene, playing in place.

    1Open

    A job is a folder. Point vxKite at it and open what's there — 112 file extensions, each the way it deserves. Resume brings both panes back as you left them.

  2. Two panes linked as a spread on macOS: a book's painting beside its text
    Two panes, linked — a book as a spread.

    2Show

    Fit, zoom and find. Two panes, any kind in either, and Link moves them as one. A callout lifts a passage out, large, over the page.

  3. Your laptop, and the room's screen.

    3Present

    Live puts your view on the room's screen and never takes the keys. Pause it, push a view, cut to black, or put a document camera beside the page.

  4. A media map on a drawn plan: in Viewing, a click on a dot opens its file; in Editing, a file placed where it belongs, its dot given an icon of your own, a cone turned the way it looks; then a 3D scene opened from its dot as a Card, playing.

    4Build

    Put the job's photos, clips, 360s and documents on a map where each was taken — a police diagram, a site plan, a dungeon's map, a lake with the day's GPS track. Draw a hotspot on a page to open another file, or a panel of knobs to drive one.

  5. 5Mark, then hand off

    The sticker's live proof reading VXKITE · STICKER · No. 1, and the sticker placed at the top right of a project report, on macOS
    VXKITE · STICKER · No. 1, proofed live and placed — Enter stamps it.

    Mark

    mx4 copies the file into Marked as EX4, mx4a as EX4A — a translation beside its original — and mxa as Exhibit A; after .series D Doe, mxd1's sticker reads Doe 1. S places the sticker, Enter stamps it — a PDF stays a searchable PDF. The original is never written.

    The court reporter's Batch sheet, filled from the hand-off: five exhibits under two labels, each label mapped to a style
    The court reporter's Batch, filled from the hand-off: each label mapped to a style of the reporter's own.

    The hand-off is the labelled set.

    At the end of the day: the stickered set, each exhibit in its own label, and the exhibit list as Excel, Word, PDF or CSV. One file, the exhibit log, hands the record to the court reporter's vxKite, and its Batch stamps the same exhibits in that operator's own labels. Before a job closes, vxKite looks over the exhibits against their files, and asks first if one is out of step.

360 — from one photo to a tour

A 360 photo opens on the sphere — drag to look around — and View turns it into the flat panorama or a little planet. A 360 video plays on the sphere too. Place your 360s on a map by hand and each opens beside it, ← and → walking them in turn: a rough tour, made in vxKite. For a full tour — walk arrows, info cards, hidden trails — build it in srScout, a separate app from the same maker; vxKite plays it in srScout's own player, unchanged.

A 360 photo from the Hellcat trail's tower on Plum Island, shown flat
A 360 photo flat: the whole sphere at once.
A 360 photo from the Hellcat trail's tower on Plum Island as a little planet, the tour's badge at its middle
The same photo as a little planet.
360 photos placed on a map of Plum Island by hand, the first open beside the map
360s placed on a map by hand, each opening beside it.
A walking tour of 360s on Plum Island at scene 19 of 79, an info card showing the Hellcat trail map
A tour built in srScout, scene 19 of 79, an info card open.
A panel beside the clock it drives: each hand follows its knob, the button calls the cuckoo, every switch sets something going.

Panels — knobs, sticks and switches.

A board of controls vxKite draws itself — knobs, sliders, switches, buttons, joysticks — a small file of its own that drives another, beside it or over it: a clock's hands and its cuckoo, a clip's play and its seconds, a dial through a document's pages, a demonstrative's layers switched on in turn, a stick to look about a 360. Made by mouse and kept with the job. Nothing in it runs.

vxKite playing a guided job, stopped at a fork: a 3D model of a boathouse on screen, the Branches map in the corner with three branches off stop 2 and two off stop 3, and the stop strip with each branch's stops in a lane beneath its stop
A guided job at a fork: three branches ready for the room's question. ↑, ↓ or 2 takes one; Space carries on.

6Guide — then play the whole case with one key

Everything above, set up once as stops across the job's files, each landing exactly as it was kept — panes, page, zoom, ink. Space moves on; a branch waits for the question you may or may not be asked. Leave, and the screen is as it was.

A desktop app on your own disk. What vxKite makes goes into one vxKite folder in the job, with the record beside it. Your originals are never written.

Start Here, on Downloads

What it's for

1Open & Read

Books as books with their pages turning, comics panel by panel, manga right to left — a passage highlighted, a panel lifted out large. And a website, a JSON or a script shown as it is: nothing in it runs, and the file is never written.

An EPUB open as a book: two pages side by side, a bookmark's ribbon on the first, chapters marked along the bar
A book as a book — two pages and a bookmark's ribbon.
A sentence highlighted in yellow under a book's illustration
A passage highlighted under the art.
A callout on macOS: one panel of a page, a serpent, lifted out large over the page
A callout lifts one panel out, large.
The Action Reader: a page's panels boxed and numbered, then read one at a time, the camera gliding between them.

2Doc Tech in the hot seat

Any exhibit on the room's screen in seconds, even a file you have never seen.

On this page: Present · Mark

The job's exhibits listed down the sidebar, a patent drawing open beside them
The job's exhibits down the side, each one a click away.
The room's screen showing a memo and a measured drawing side by side
Two documents side by side on the room's screen.
An exhibit sticker placed in a memo's corner, ready to stamp
A sticker placed on the page — Enter stamps it.

3Student & Researcher

Your own files — tracks, scans, records, models — shown the way you read them.

A brain's surface in 3D, finely folded, a PET scan's colours of its activity over it
A brain's surface in 3D, its activity in colour — synthetic, not for diagnostic use.
A research vault's canvas: notes on walls, riprap and living shorelines, their costs and the permit trail, joined by arrows
A research vault's canvas: notes, costs and sources, linked as you laid them out.
A scanned lab notebook page: a hand-drawn loop ride, a kite pulling the car, and the sums beside it
A scanned lab notebook, three pages in one TIFF, paged through.
A biology lab's slide review: a table of three microscope slides, each slide's thumbnail and its counts a hotspot, and the butterfly wing's slide, its eyespot, opened from its thumbnail as a card over the table
A lab's slide review: each thumbnail and count a hotspot, a slide opened as a card over the table.

4Educator / Presenter

A lesson or a talk built once as a guided job, played with one key — a document camera on the stage, your own camera in the corner.

On this page: Guide · Present

A document camera's view of a watch and a sketch on a note filling the stage, your own camera's picture in the corner, marked
A document camera fills the stage; your own camera sits in the corner.
A guided job at a fork: a memo and its drawings on screen, the branches beside them, every stop's picture along the window's foot
A guided job at a fork: the room's question picks the branch; every stop waits along the foot.
Four moments of one stop: a paragraph, then its highlight drawn in, then a circle drawn round two words
A stop draws its ink as it lands, the way a pen would.

5Mapping & Reconstruction

Panes wired through the patch bay — page for page, by time, or a 360 and a model looking the same way — a panel's knobs on the same cables, and a media map of where everything happened.

On this page: Build · 360 · Panels

A crash's media map over a street map: the dashcam's GPS route, the photos and clips placed along it, the dashcam clip beside at 23 mph
A crash's media map from the dashcam's GPS: its route, each photo and clip where it was taken, the clip beside it.
Two patents side by side, linked page for page
Two patents linked page for page: turn one, the other follows.
A 360 and a 3D model, linked: turn either, and the other turns with it.

6File management

Split a long PDF into exhibits by page range, sticker a folder in one pass from a list, and write the exhibit list from the record whenever it's wanted — Excel, Word, PDF or CSV.

On this page: Mark, then hand off

Pages, Extract and split: two page ranges of a 200-page report, each becoming an exhibit
Extract & split: pages 40–44 become EX8, pages 120–123 EX9.
Batch Stamp, filled from a list of files, each mapped to its exhibit number
Batch, filled from the marked list or a list of your own.
The sticker exhibit list written as a PDF: number, description, date marked and file
The exhibit list, written as a PDF.

7Media collection

Music as an album that plays on, or a whole library by genre, artist and album, with playlists — FLAC and WAV included, and the music files never written. A folder of photos as a gallery; open one, and its Info says where and when it was taken.

An album open in vxKite: its cover, five tracks, and Play on
An album that plays on.
The library: columns for genre, artist and album over a folk album's tracks, the playlists beside them, and a chiptune album's cover
The library, by genre, artist and album, with playlists.
A folder of eighteen photos shown as a gallery grid
A folder of photos as a gallery.

What it opens

112 file extensions on the Mac and Windows alike — only AIFF and CAF audio play on the Mac alone. Nothing is fetched from the internet to open them, and no script a file carries is ever run.

  • PDF 1
  • Office 10
  • Pictures 14
  • Camera RAW 8
  • JPEG 2000 5
  • Studio files 7
  • Medical 8
  • Video 6
  • Audio 13
  • Books and comics 4
  • Text and data 20
  • Web and mail 4
  • 3D 7
  • GPS 4
  • Canvas 1

Medical views are display only, not for diagnostic use. Every extension is listed on Help.

Kite over water
Stephen Coetsee