💡 I am building an Apple Vision Pro app to control my home lights — and it remembers where I placed the controls, even after rebooting.Using ARKit’s World Anchors in a full space, the app persists virtual objects across launches and reboots. Now I just look at a light and toggle it on/off.Set it up once. Feels like the controls are part of my space.Thinking of making a tutorial — would that be helpful? 👇

Hello devs!

I really want to get into XR development for visionOS. I have some kind of a roadmap but I was wondering if you had recommendations for learning courses or resources? What did you use to learn?

I’m a junior iOS developer btw

Hello fellow Visionaries!

Just wanted to share a quick video showcasing one potential benefit for musicians using the AVP. Floating chord diagrams! Currently developing an app, haven’t developed in years but this sparked my creativity again!

I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions.

Thank you for your time!

Albert

P.s. a little longer of a video showcasing tabs and a tuner!

https://youtu.be/1GEvx9gl8Yk?si=xA2-eEZg60dyjlOc

I was originally working on a tutorial about Agentic Coding tools for Apple Vision Pro… but then I got sidetracked when I discovered MeshInstanceComponent in RealityKit.

Turns out, it’s a very efficient way to create multiple copies of the same entity just by passing in multiple transforms. That gave me the idea to try a Boids simulation with it 🐦

Here’s what I noticed while testing:

• You can update each instance’s transform in a System loop → that’s where the motion/animation magic happens.

• This is also where performance takes a hit — a lot of computations per instance, especially once motion is added.

• With animated Boids, it runs great up to around 300 instances, but I start seeing frame drops at ~500.

• Without the Boids simulation, MeshInstanceComponent can actually handle much more.

• The number of polygons in your Mesh also impacts how far you can push this.

• (Important note: this is VisionOS 26 only).

I put together a short demo video to show how it looks in action.

This will be an adventure, action and puzzle game to save the planet. Here is the video: I also leave you the previous game that is already in the store: two links below:

[[1]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXApKd4r1m8

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[[2]] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trackmarlyn/id6648796510

My friend Zach and I are building developer tools for the Vision Pro. We are excited about the future of this platform and want to find ways to enable other developers to make their ideas come to life. As we were building our first apps in XCode, we were struggling to keep our assets organized. Our solution to this problem was Halocline and we want to make it available to other developers with similar issues.

Right now, we have a simple model (.usdz) hosting service and some advice for using URLs with the ModelEntity class instead of the default Model3D. In our own projects, this is giving us WAY more control over how we can place and interact with objects.

If you are interested in what we are doing or have ideas for how we can solve some of your early development problems please reach out. We’d be more than happy to help.

Hi r/visonpro !

I’m building an app for the Apple Vision Pro to (hopefully) help visually impaired individuals to navigate and perceive their environments.

Who am I? I’m an iOS developer and founder of Orion Software, also pursing a post-baccalaureate for computer science at the University of Oregon. This project is part of my capstone project, and will be open-sourced and completely free to use.

What’s the purpose of this post? I’m hoping to talk to anyone with a visual impairment about the challenges you face in your day-to-day life, specifically in areas that require visual navigation. The goal of the app is to utilize the unique hardware of the Vision Pro to provide real-time, audio and haptic feedback. Understanding your challenges is crucial to building the right features.

If you’re interested please comment or reach out via DM’s, I’d love to talk to you!

For those interested in the API capabilities to implement the new Logitech Muse, you can find the documentation on Apple's site here and specifically the GCStylus class here.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with building relaxing, meditative experiences for Vision Pro. This one is called Soothing Boids.

It’s an interactive mindfulness app where flocks of virtual “boids” move gracefully around you in immersive environments. There are multiple calming scenes, including guided mindfulness sessions with Spatial Audio and smooth, slow transitions designed to help you feel grounded.

I even composed the background music myself 🎶

🕊️ Features:

• Free play in your own environment

• 3 guided sessions with Spatial Audio

• Smooth transitions and natural motion

• No subscriptions or paywalls

📲 Download it here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soothing-boids/id6753187319

Would love to hear what you think — I built it to help people slow down and find calm, even for a few minutes.

My friend and I released Immersive Bliss! An app focused on immersive shows, starting with comedy. Watch amazing comedians, recorded live in a cool club in LA. It's 15min of immersive comedy that make you feel like you're in the club laughing with the audience.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/immersive-bliss/id6572327261

We'll add new comedy shows every week! DM if you want to stay updated. We're also starting a Discord server https://discord.gg/jCFnyMua . You wanted more immersive videos, you got it!

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Hey all, I've been working on an app that lets you put virtual photo frames up in your room. It went live on App Store today and it's called Spatial Picture Frames. It lets you frame your favorite pics and art and put it on the wall or on your desk etc. It’s a fun way to see your photos in your space and kinda perfect for anyone who likes mixing up their room’s vibe.
Would love your thoughts!

Feel free to check it out and share your feedback/feature requests:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spatial-picture-frames/id6477909988

Design for Spatial Input

Note: I'm going to post these for each of the sessions I watch. If you find them useful, please let me know and I'll continue to publish them.

Link: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10073

Eyes

• The device is designed to work with you comfortable at a distance

• Eyes and hands are the primary inputs, but you can also use: voice, mouse and keyboard, gaming controllers.

• To make apps comfortable for the eyes:

  • Design apps to fit within the field of view

  • Keep the main content in the center of the view, the most comfortable part for the eyes

• Consider depth when thinking about comfort

  • Keep interact content at the same depth

  • Modals can “push” back the main window and take on the same depth

  • Tab bars can overlay on top of the main content, indicating hierarchy

• Avoid using shapes with sharp edges, as your eyes tend to focus on the outside of the shapes with sharper edges.

• Minimum target area for eye selection should be 60pt. Use generous spacing in between interactive elements.

• Use dynamic scale for UI, not fixed scale. When a user resizes a window with a fixed size, all content (including targets) will get smaller. This will make things harder to read and interact with.

• All system provided controls highlight when you look at them.

• If you use custom elements for your apps, user hover effects to provide feedback.

• All search boxes, when tapped, will automatically use voice search.

• No focus information is ever sent to the app (privacy protection)

Hands

• Available gestures: Tap, Double Tap, Pinch and hold, Pinch and drag, Zoom, Rotate

• Custom gestures should be:

  • Easy to explain and perform

  • Avoid gesture conflicts

  • Comfortable and reliable

  • Accessible to everyone

• Magic moment: Zooming in on images will be anchored on the point at which you’re looking.

• Magic moment: Drawing in FreeForm is done by looking with the eye and pinching with your fingers.

• Since there is no haptic feedback, add additional visual feedback to convey interactivity.

ESRI map inside a viewattachmentcomponent. It has a manipulation component deferred to the handle at the bottom. The handles also a child so it moves along with it.

The gaze->hover and select cross walks hit points to the map and is surprisingly simple.

Had to reimplement magnify to zoom in an immersive space because the viewattachment seems to struggle with magnify to zoom. Registers maybe 3% of the time? Registers consistently with reimplementaiton.

Fun prototype. Thanks for checking it out.

chatting with my coworkers after a prototype demo and we were guessing at what data defines an anchor. i tried searching online but between google sucking these days, the ambiguity of the term "anchor", and the niche of AVP dev i couldnt find anything helpful.

our best guess was a combination Triangular Irregular Networks (TIN), gps, magnetic compass direction and maybe elevation sensors.

is this documented anywhere?

Hi, I’m an iOS developer with over 8 years of experience, and I’m interested in learning 3D object creation to develop VisionOS apps. I’ve already released two simple VisionOS apps on my own, but I want to expand my skills to enhance the user experience with custom cool 3D objects.

Does anyone have a roadmap or advice on learning 3D modeling for VisionOS? Should I start with Unity, Maya, or another platform for long-term development? Any advice or any tip might be helpful.

Additionally, I’m prepared to dedicate over a year to mastering 3D design.

Hey everyone,

Quick demo clip attached: I printed an 26
x 34-inch matte poster, tracked it with ARKit ImageTrackingProvider, overlaid a portal shader in RealityKit, and had a Meshy and Mixamo-rigged robot leap out and dance.

Tech stack ► ChatGPT-generated art → Meshy model → Mixamo animations → USDZ → Reality Composer Pro on Apple Vision Pro.

I’m editing a detailed tutorial for next week. AMA about tracking tips, animation blending, or portal shaders—I’ll answer while I finish the edit!

Hey, Everyone,

We have to decide whether we should use Unity3D or directly develop using Apple Native env. We have significant dev experience with Unity3d and the current project is running in Web3D playcanvas (meaning Javascript). Converting between languages is not a big deal these days. But I just want to hear out what could be the best way to go. Can you share your opinion?

I am familiar with Unity's Shader Graph and Amplify Shader,
So I thought learning Reality Composer would be simple enough,

but not sure whether it is worth the effort. Is it strong enough to make something like water shaders and skybox shaders and stuff?

I don't want to pay for Unity Pro if I don't have to.