Step Into Newsletter – August 22, 2025

Join us this weekend as we celebrate one year of Step Into Vision.

This Week on Step Into Vision

This week has been light on examples and labs. We’ve been busy preparing some new initiatives. Make sure to join us this weekend for some announcements about what lies.

Example Code: How to change immersive style at runtime – Our apps can switch between mixed, progressive, and full immersion.

Lab 077: Ornaments in Presentations – We can add ornaments to popovers shown by PresentationComponent, but I’m not sure if we should.

Lab 078: Building a glass material box – Using spatialOverlay wrap any SwiftUI view in glass material panes.

Project Graveyard – Devlog 005 – Joseph shared an update about the latest features and opened a TestFlight for version 3.0. See also: Project Graveyard On Apple Vision Pro Is A Free Place For Dead Ideas. Ian Hamilton did a short write up about Project Graveyard.

Step Into Vision: Birthday Bash!

Aug 24, 2025 11:00 AM Eastern Time. More info in our LinkedIn community.

Community

Hugh Hou on YouTube has been added to the resource library. Hugh is sharing valuable information about immersive media. Make sure to check out his app as well. Get Spatial Film on the App Store.

Le-Roy Karunaratne published an article about SharePlay. Read SharePlay and Personas and sigh up for new articles.

Rich Fallat published an article about his amazing visionOS game, Gravitas Dark Matter. Read Gravitas Dark Matter for Apple Vision Pro

Devon Dundee wants to hear from visionOS developers who have been building with new visionOS 26 features.

Fall is approaching, and that means new OSes! visionOS developers, if you're working on an update for your app – whether it be integrating widgets, Remote Immersive Spaces, new peripherals, or something else – l'd love to give it a try.Feel free to reach out here or via email: devon@macstories.net

— Devon Dundee (@devondundee.com) 2025-08-21T14:57:46.670085Z

The next meeting of the Immersive Video Enthusiasts is coming up next week.

PhotoDome on Apple Vision Pro is a delightful way to revisit photos and albums. Combining XR concepts and interfaces with the rest of my computing life is why I’m so excited about visionOS. The developer of this app did an amazing job.

Step Into Vision has a Discord Server now. We’ve invited our existing LinkedIn community and we’ll open it up to more folks soon. If you would like access, please DM Joseph on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

We hope to see you at Step Into Vision Office Hours and at our birthday bash this weekend!