visionOS

Development resources and articles about Apple visionOS

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This page is for application developers and technical product managers new to swiftUI and visionOS.

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Key terms in visionOS

• RealityKit is used to manage the creation and animation of 3D objects in your apps. Create RealityKit content programmatically, or use
• Reality Composer Pro to build entire scenes that contain all the objects, animations, sounds, and visual effects you need.
• Use RealityView in your app to include the scenes with your RealityKit content, add to your windows, volumes, or spaces
• USDZ stands for Universal Scene Description. It is a file format for 3D models, introduced by Apple in collaboration with Pixar for its ARKit.  For more info, see USD Overview and Purpose

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Useful Apple Resources

• Principles of spatial design
• Design considerations for vision and motion
• Design for spatial input
• Design spatial SharePlay experiences
• Build spacial SharePlay experiences
• Go beyond the window with SwiftUI
• Meet object capture for iOS
• Meet Reality Composer Pro
• Build spacial experiences with RealityKit
• Meet SwiftUI for spacial compting
• Take SwiftUI to the next dimension

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• Explore materials in reality Composer Pro
• Enhance your spacial computing app with RealityKit
• Work with reality Composer Pro Content in Code
• Elevate your windowed app for spacial computing
• Design for spacial user interfaces
• discover Metal for immersive apps
• Explore the USD ecosystem (3D content library)
• Meet ARKit for spacial computing
• What's new in SwiftUI
• Disvoer quick Look for spatial computing
• Explore renering for spatial computing
• Build great games for spatial computing
• Create immersive Unity apps
• Get started with building apps for spatial computing
• Developer your first immersive app
• Evolve your ARKit app for sptial experiences
• Expore immersive sound design
• WWDC22 - Understand USD fundamentals
• WWDC21 - Create 3D workflows with USD

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visionOS Development Tutorials

• TBD

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Articles about Apple, visionOS, Vision Pro

• Apple Plans a 3D World and Video Service for Its Mixed-Reality Headset

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Swift UI application development

• SwiftUI Concepts
• Scenes to declare the user interface groupings that make up the parts of your app.
• An App instance presents the scenes it contains, while each Scene acts as the root element of a View hierarchy.
• Exploring the structure of a SwiftUI app
• Maintaining the adaptable sizes of built-in views. Text, Symbols, Labels, Controls (Picker, Button), Image, Shapes (Rectangle, Circle, RoundedRectangle)