Step Into Newsletter – December 19, 2025

Your weekly update from Step Into Vision.

This Week on Step Into Vision

We have some new examples in our RealityKit Basics series.

RealityKit Basics: Visual Bounds. – We can use visual bounds to get the center, extent, and other properties of a bounding box for a given entity.

RealityKit Basics: 3D Text. – We can generate 3D text from an attributed string and some configuration options.

RealityKit Basics: Extruding Meshes. – We use data from a Swift Path to extrude a 3D Shape.

Check out the entire series for examples on ModelEntity, Entity, Components, Materials, RealityView, Attachments, Interactions, Events, Animations, Entity Actions, and many other topics.

Lab 101 – Exploring Extrusion Methods. – This lab builds on the Extruding Meshes example above. We can use linear, tracePositions, and traceTransforms to extrude meshes.

Lab 098 – Vector Subtraction. – A guest lab from Michael Temper to show subtraction of two vectors

We have more coming on RealityKit Basics and Spatial SwiftUI before the end of the year. We’re also hard at work on animation example code. This may end up one of our most comprehensive series on the site.

From the Community

USDZ: A snowman hops through a winter landscape. Gerhard Schröder published an article about their magical Christmas card for 2025. The article is in German, but most browsers offer a way to translate.

App: Gravitas Reader is out! Rich Fallat has been building this for a while now. This Spatial Research tool brings a new way of thinking about reading and learning.

New in the Resource Library: Spatial Metadata. We can use this tool to create or edit metadata for immersive media.

Paolo Villanueva shared an end-of-year trailer to accompany the latest update to LALÒ Immersive on Apple Vision Pro.

Read: With Apple’s help, storytellers are figuring out Vision Pro

Hangout

Join us later today for the Friday edition of Office Hours.

We host these meeting every week on Wednesday and Friday. Find out how to attend and get involved in our community. We’ll keep our regular schedule during the Holidays, so come and join us.