Step Into Newsletter – May 15, 2026

Eight new Labs, revisiting RealityKit Basics, new podcast episodes, and updates from the community. We also celebrate our 500th post on Step Into Vision.

Reminder before you dive in to the newsletter this week. The new visionOS Professionals Survey for 2026 is now live. Please take a bit of time to completed it before May 21st. Tom and Oliver will share the results before WWDC.

What’s new from Step Into Vision

Our latest podcast episode features Mel Randall and Sheba Mayer to talk about creating their new app: Arluma360. This week we recorded another new episode with members of the Shared Visions Project. Our goal was to provide a snapshot in time of where the project is. Get subscribed so you don’t miss it.

If you follow us on social media you may have notice we’ve been revisiting the RealityKit Basics series. Check out the latest example and dive into the while series to get up to speed on RealityKit.

RealityKit Basics: Create shapes with MeshDescriptor. We can use MeshDescriptor to build shapes and render them with MeshResource.

Reminder: We’ll be at WWDC this year. Learn about our events and come find us if you’re in town.

We’ve been in the labs tinkering with portals again.

Lab 102 – Input works with Portals in Immersive Spaces. A follow up to lab 093, where input was not working when using portals in a window. Input does work when using the same portal scene in an immersive space.

Lab 104 – Portal Orb. Setting up a lab to play with some ideas for using RealityKit Portals.

We also starting making a series of labs to explore ideas for a potential new project. Check out Lab 105 to see how these were built, then give into the others to explore further.

Building the scenes: Lab 105 – Vapor • Lab 106 – Mist • Lab 107 – Droplet

Lab 108 – Cycle. In this lab, we cycle through the scenes created in Labs 105-107.

Lab 109 – Layers. – Standing in one world while seeing layers of two others.

Lab 110 – Curved Display Surface. Using MeshDescriptor to create a curved surface we used in Lab 109.

Yesterday we celebrated a new milestone: we published our 500th post on Step Into Vision. We have so much more to bring you in the future. If you get any value from our work, please consider supporting us directly or on Ko-fi.

From the Community

We have a few new items in the resource library and tons of updates from the community.

NewtonLab by Luca Langella is an interactive project to learn and explore physics in RealityKit and visionOS. Make sure to check out the companion articles.

Apple provides a number of example steams we can use when working with HLS. This includes a variety of examples for Apple Vision Pro.

Immersive Watch Party SDK. A synchronized co-watching engine for Apple Vision Pro.

RealityMoreShape. RealityKit helpers to create shapes not otherwise provided in RealityKit.

Check out this recap of Adelaide Fringe from Manjit Bedi.

Matt Fisher released Spatialapse Camera. This is a must have app if you have an iPhone capable of spatial capture.

John Haney shared his WWDC26 Wish List.

Yannick Comte released OpenXR-OSX this week.

Tim Mitra released a visionOS version of his device tracker.

James Ashley has been sharing updates on an tabletop RPG.

Weekend reading from Paul Mezier: Dear Immersive Filmmakers: please stop making “Interactive Experiences”

Roland Smeenk shared in incredible idea with frosted glass.

Florian Sabatier has been getting a lot done with Unreal Engine for visionOS. Check out the latest demo.

Apple created a new way to recognize community members and leaders from across the development world. So many familiar faces, including a few friends from the visionOS community.