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What's new in visionOS 2

This was predicted to be a big year for vision OS. Now the dust has settled after version 2 being announced at WWDC 2024, here’s what it means for...

Playgrounds >= Xcode

I gave a talk at /dev/world in May 2024 that put forward an argument that Swift Playgrounds is a much better featured and more useful tool than many are...

visionOS 2.0 at WWDC 2024 Predictions

We’re a few months away from WWDC 2024 (confirmed for 10-14 June) so that means that it is prediction time. Or as I like to call it, the time to cross...

Vision Pro Connectivity

February 26, 2024

One thing everyone agrees on is that using the Vision Pro is a solitary experience. Apple has done plenty to make the experience more inclusive, including...

Inspiring Apple Vision Pro Apps

January 29, 2024

Inspiring Apple Vision Pro Apps Having declared that all Apple Vision Pro Apps were boring just a week ago, there’s been an influx of launch announcements...

Vision Pro Apps look boring

January 19, 2024

It's Finally Time There has been a flurry of excitement on social media this past week, as developers showcase their apps in anticipation of the release of...

More windows approach for Vision Pro

November 17, 2023

Recently I have been trying to improve the flexibility of my Cricket Scores App to show more even more information about a game at once. Coming from iOS, the...

Have we reached Peak App?

September 23, 2023

I’ve been pondering an idea for the last few months, since WWDC, which is whether we have passed Peak App? Has the idea of what we think an App is reached a...

August 22, 2023

Apple released their Swift Charts library back in 2022 as a native way to generate a whole host of different chart types without having to reach for an...

Adapting an App to visionOS

I’ve been continuing to explore Vision Pro, this time with the intention of bringing my Cricket App to the device. The App is built in SwiftUI and uses...

Windowing on the Vision Pro

Window management in visionOS is handled using familiar SwiftUI APIs, but with a few restrictions as well as opening up some new opportunities. First thing’s...

Hand tracking in VisionOS

Updated for visionOS 1.0 beta 2 Hand Tracking is a key feature of the Vision Pro, enabling the main user interaction with the device. It allows the device to...

Skyboxes and transparency in VisionOS

I was recently experimenting with adding a glowing gradient material to a cylinder in RealityKit for use on the Vision Pro. This led me down a journey that...

Hand Tracking in Vision Pro Simulator

There’s currently (as of Xcode 15 beta3 VisionOS SDK 1.0) no way of testing or simulating hand tracking in the Vision Pro Simulator. In fact, many of the...

Multiple Cameras in VisionOS Previews

If you’ve had a play around with the Preview of Vision content within Xcode, you’ll know how powerful it can be to see instant feedback for changes you’re...

Testing edge cases

January 27, 2023

The personal cricket app I made for myself gets daily use. It means I’m finding edge cases which is breaking things. Some recent issues have been when the...

December 13, 2022

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