Step Into Newsletter – December 26, 2025

The final newsletter of the 2025, including an award for the most procrastinated example of the year.

This Week on Step Into Vision

We have a short edition for you this week, with an eclectic collection of examples, labs, and resources.

Lab 099 – Direction. – A guest lab from Michael Temper to show the direction of an object.

Lab 087 – Standing inside a Spatial Layout. – Documenting a workaround for using SwiftUI Spatial Layouts in Immersive Spaces.

Spatial Event Gesture. We can use this gesture to tap into a stream of input events happening in our scene. This example wins the award for the “most procrastinated example of 2025”. Better late than never?

RealityKit Basics: Entity Observation. – Starting in visionOS 26, we can observe changes to component data on entities. It is hard to over state just how cool it is to have observable components.

Shared Visions: Update on Story Workshops. Recapping our recent workshops and plan for what’s coming next.

From the Community

Let’s Vision announced the dates for 2026 and opened submissions for speakers and exhibits. Get your ticket now. Let us know if you’re planning to attend. You may see some familiar faces.

Passage was updated with a new environment. Matt Waller took the time to share the process on YouTube.

New in the Resource Library: Blend Shape Lab

Reminder: Office Hours is still on the schedule today. We may have a smaller crowd than normal but we’ll be there if you want to hang out and talk visionOS