Step Into Newsletter – September 12, 2025

A new edition of Office Hours, final prep for visionOS 26, and a packed community section.

Happy Friday! This is your weekly recap from Step Into Vision. Each week we bring you the latest examples, labs, and devlogs, along with updates from the community. Today we have a special announcement.

For the last 8 months we have hosted a weekly meeting every Friday called Office Hours. This has become the best part of the week for many visionOS developers. But the time on Friday afternoon doesn’t work for a lot of folks. We’re happy to announce a second edition of Office Hours. See the introduction video on LinkedIn from Roxana.

Nothing has changed about the Friday edition of Office Hours. We hope to see you at either of these meetings. You can find all the detailed here.

This week on Step Into Vision

We’ve been busy wrapping up apps and updates for visionOS 26, so we are a little light on examples and labs this week.

How to adapt Dynamic Lights to the size of a Volume. Don’t miss this if you are working with Volumes on visionOS.

Lab 080 – First Look at Unified Coordinate Conversion. visionOS 26 brings a new unified coordinate system that we can use in SwiftUI and RealityKit. We still have more questions than answers about this.

Lab 081 – Exploring Feathered Materials. Le-Roy Karunaratne created three stunning materials to explore feathered edges in Shader Graph. The heavy lifting is done by the nodes that feed into the opacity channel.

New Resource: 3D Assets by Kay Lousberg. A huge collection of stylized 3D assets neatly organized into themed packs.

From the Community

Phil Traut and Artur Sychov teased a new Social Network for Apple Vision Pro Personas.

At a recent meeting of Immersive Video Enthusiasts John Gearty shared details on remastering Björk Vulnicura for Apple Vision Pro. Watch the presentation on YouTube. The app was released this week. Get Björk: Vulnicura VR Remastered on the App Store.

Justin Ryan released episode 7 of Spatial Insiders, with a special announcement at the end.

Gerhard Schröder published a new case study for a USDZ project. I had no idea these files could be optimized so much!

Oliver Weidlich and Shane Brown have updated Day Ahead for visionOS 26. Get the it on TestFlight and watch for the App Store update next week. More info

Project Graveyard 3.0 has been approved for release with visionOS 26. Try it now on TestFlight and get it on the App Store next week.

Joseph will be attending the next Developer Discussion hosted by inSpaze. We want to introduce Step Into Vision and Shared Visions to this community of developers. See you Tuesday at 7:00 PM EST

Shared Visions

The sign up window for Shared Visions is open until the end of September. We’ve had over 40 people from around the world sign up to help tell the story of this community.

Blog Post: Shared Visions: a community project

Video Trailer: Shared Visions on YouTube

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