Very excited to share I'll be returning to the always amazing Reality Hack at MIT, for the first time not as a hacker but as a mentor! Bring me all of your Unreal Engine questions and I can't wait to help you make something amazing. See you January 22!

I finally installed macOS Tahoe. One of the first things I did was turn on "Increase contrast" (Settings > Accessibility > Display). Not only is it more usable for me, I genuinely think it looks better than the default design.

Chances are you've already used many of these types. Size3D, Angle2D, Axis3D, Point3D, etc. Make sure to check out Vector3D. It has a ton of useful methods

"Most Likely to Rage‑Quit RealityKit" I don't know, that seems like a crowded category to me

We can use Scene Phase keep track of open Windows. Using this at the app-level can be a bit confusing. When used inside scenes this becomes a simple and powerful way to know if a window, volume, or space is open/active. #SwiftUI #visionOS #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/example-code...

RealityKit Basics: Using Convenience Entities When should we use Convenience Entities vs. Entity plus components. stepinto.vision/example-code...

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I got interviewed INSIDE Vision Pro for the first time! 🥽 Himels Tech asked me about hitting #visionOS limitations with my app, waiting for Apple to lift them, and finally rebuilding everything for 26. It's wild how these personas improved! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QArh... #iOSDev

A cat is in charge of the weather control system over Ohio. That’s the only reasonable explanation for this

You gotta read this just to learn who won the award for "most procrastinated example of 2025"

Reminder: Office Hours is still on the schedule today. I'm sure we'll have smaller crowd than normal but I'll be there if you want to hang out and talk visionOS stepinto.vision/event/step-i...

Starting in visionOS 26, we can observe changes on RealityKit entities. Let's observe an entity position and a value in a custom component. We can use the values directly in SwiftUI views or listen for changes and apply side effects. #visionOS #SwiftUI #RealityKit stepinto.vision/example-code...

Lab 087 documents a workaround for using SwiftUI Spatial Layouts in Immersive Spaces. The short version is that we can't be inside a SwiftUI view. My hack was to raise the view above me, the offset the content to hang from the view. stepinto.vision/labs/lab-087...

Apple hosted three visionOS workshops in December: NYC, Berlin, and London. It just occurred to me that we had community members from Step Into Vision and the Shared Visions Project at all three events! If you're working with Apple Vision Pro, you'll run into us eventually.

pushWindow allows us to temporarily replace one window with another. Useful for splash screens, complex pickers, or when we need to show a content that requires a different window style (Photos app vs. single photo view) stepinto.vision/example-code...

Do you want to talk about novel approaches to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image? Join us for Vision Office Hours EMEA tomorrow Wednesday at 11:00 CET. stepinto.vision/about-office... #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #VisionOS #StepIntoVision

I hope my friends and family appreciate that I put "Holiday Activities" on my "Interpersonal & Recreational" task list for this week.

New immersive environment on the Apple Vision Pro via our app Passage! The video gives a tour of the environment, as well as gives a bunch of behind the scenes info on how we got it ready for the AVP www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn27... apps.apple.com/us/app/id647...

Almost a year to the date of my last *new* app release, SingTheSong is now out on visionOS! I'm still building apps for visionOS because it's FUN. This one listens to the music playing in your environment and displays real-time lyrics. Made this one for my fellow vinyl enthusiasts.

Shared Visions Project Here is a recap of our first two Story Workshops. We've also created a YouTube channel for the project in an effort to keep everyone up to date. stepinto.vision/articles/sha...

I built a standalone tool to manage BlendShapes for USDZ files. No Unity required! Perfect for native #visionOS & RealityKit workflow. 🧪 BlendShapeLab Edit USDZ shapes without heavy game engines. 🔗 github.com/setouchi-h/B... #AppleVisionPro #SwiftUI #OpenUSD #gamedev #indiedev

It’s a wrap! Today I gave my last visionOS lecture this semester 👨‍🏫 This was my first time teaching. So hearing from a student that it was the best course of his entire bachelor’s program due to the hands-on experience truly made my day 🧠🛠️ The perfect way to wrap up an amazing year 🙌

🥳 It’s official now on AppStore! 
MagnetStory, the app links your memory to magnets (or anything u collect). 🎁 Great for travel & sharing, linking these beautiful memories as we exchange gifts in coming holiday season, with our loved ones🎄 #magnet #magnetstory #memory #AR #app #holiday #collection

Join us for Step Into Vision Office Hours every Friday at 2:00 PM (Eastern US) Learn more and find out how to join stepinto.vision/about-office...

The neurotypical urge to listen to Waloyo Yamoni on repeat all day

Lab 101 - Exploring Extrusion Methods We can use linear, tracePositions, and traceTransforms to when extruding meshes in RealityKit. stepinto.vision/labs/lab-101...

444 posts covering visionOS is an arbitrary milestone that I’ll happily celebrate

I still have a few more posts to add to the RealityKit Basics series that I started in January. Some topics covered: ModelEntity, Entity, Components, Materials, RealityView, Attachments, Interactions, Events, Animations, and Entity Actions. stepinto.vision/learn-vision...

🥽 𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑋𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 by Joseph Simpson (@vrhermit.com) Automate visionOS example code updates with metadata-driven scripting instead of manual Xcode project changes. #visionOS #Automation #iOSDev stepinto.vision/articles/scr...

This is a pretty simple example of extrusion using a linear depth. Should I make some examples to showcase how we can also extrude using trace positions and transforms?

RealityKit Basics: 3D Text We can generate 3D text from an attributed string and some configuration options. stepinto.vision/example-code...

RealityKit Basics: Visual Bounds We can use visual bounds to get the center, extent, and other properties of a bounding box for a given entity. stepinto.vision/example-code...

developers often face a puzzling issue: data syncs well between devices after enabling CloudKit for Core Data or SwiftData, but the CloudKit console shows "no records found." To solve this mystery, simply add an index manually on the CloudKit Dashboard. fatbobman.com/en/snippet/...

Shared Visions Participants: We have our second Story Workshop this Thursday. See the Meetings channel in the Shared Visions Discord for details. stepinto.vision/event/shared...

We can open value-scoped windows in visionOS, in much the same way as macOS and iPadOS. Each combination of id and value results in a unique window. #SwiftUI #visionOS #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/example-code...

When opening new windows, we can specify a default placement. Relative to an existing window: leading, trailing, above, and below. Relative to the user: utility #visionOS #SwiftUI #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/example-code...

Step Into Newsletter for December 12, 2025 Examples about building Example Code, community updates, and taking photos for the yearbook. stepinto.vision/articles/ste...

Take a look at some methods to size windows in visionOS. We cover defaultSize, contentSize with windowResizability and frame, and fixed size. #visionOS #SwiftUI #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/example-code...

The first article on Step Into Vision was posted weeks before the site went live. I kicked things off with a series of examples covering Windows, Volumes, and Spaces. This one was about openWindow and dismissWindow #visionOS #SwiftUI #AppleVisionPro stepinto.vision/example-code...

This is one of the many concepts I learned at the visionOS workshop last week. I'm not sure how I made it so long without knowing about onGeometryChange3D

Do you use the realityKitScene Environment Variable in your visionOS work? It's not something I've used much but it has been on my to do list for months. It provides access to the a RealityKit Scene from outside of a RealityView. stepinto.vision/example-code...

Something a little different today. I took some time to automate the process for adding new files to the Example Code project that I use on Step Into Vision. A script reads the headers of all Swift files in the Examples folder and builds the data for the UI. stepinto.vision/articles/scr...

Our first Story Workshop is on Thursday. If you're a part of Shared Visions, I hope to see you there

Spatial SwiftUI: Preferred Surroundings Effect We can use three presets, colorMultiply, and intensity to tint the passthrough video feed. This modifier has a neat bonus feature when used with a system environment. #visionOS #SwiftUI stepinto.vision/example-code...

Well, I'll be damned if I'm gonna be late for being early for the meeting

Heading to Brussels to speak @unitedxr.eu! I’ll be the only speaker focusing entirely on Apple Vision Pro and #visionOS, so if you're curious about building meaningful spatial experiences on this incredible platform, join us! 🍻 Happy Hour: augmenos.com/meetup 🥽 Session: unitedxr.eu/agenda#talk=1682

We can use presentationBreakthroughEffect to override the system default breakthrough effect for presentations. #SwiftUI #visionOS stepinto.vision/example-code...

Have you ever had a SwiftUI view in a window or volume that gets blocked by 3D objects or RealityView content? The new breakthroughEffect modifier in visionOS 26 solves this by making sure content stays visible. stepinto.vision/example-code...

Live from the visionOS Workshop in New York City. This is something new I learned this week. I've prepared an example to show how to use onGeometryChange3D to scale RealityKit content.

visionOS 26 brings two convenient modifiers to scale views based on their parent size: scaledToFill3D and scaledToFit3D. #SwiftUI #visionOS stepinto.vision/example-code...