Lab 091 – Light the Beacon

Joseph Simpson

Just a bit of fun while I wait for my Apple Vision Pro M5 to arrive.

Most of the work for this lab is in a Reality Composer Pro scene. I have a cone with a transparent material and a spotlight that uses a radius similar to the cone. I added an anchor transform to the end. Then I used a Timeline to spin the cone in one direction and the anchor transform in the other.

In the RealityView, we simply load this scene and get the anchor. Then we just add an attachment to this anchor and give it some content.

struct Lab091: View {
    var body: some View {
        RealityView { content in

            guard let scene = try? await Entity(named: "SaveUs", in: realityKitContentBundle) else { return }
            content.add(scene)

            guard let anchorPoint = scene.findEntity(named: "Anchor") else { return }
            let attachment = ViewAttachmentComponent(rootView: beaconFace)
            anchorPoint.components.set(attachment)

        }
    }

    var beaconFace: some View {
        VStack {
            Image(systemName: "vision.pro")
                .font(.extraLargeTitle2)
        }
    }
}

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