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Step Into Newsletter – January 2, 2026

Joseph Simpson

2025 Year in Review and the first edition of the Office Hours Yearbook.

This Week on Step Into Vision

We wrapped up the year with some examples in the RealityKit Basics series.

Using Convenience Entities. – When should we use Convenience Entities vs. components.

Using Spatial. – Spatial is a collection of types for working with 3D mathematical primitives.

Loading Entities on Device. – We can load entities from our app bundle if we’re not working with Reality Composer Pro.

Loading Entities from Data. – We can load Entities from a block of Data, which we can retrieve remotely.

Lab 100 – Trigger. The last in a series of 7 guest labs from Michael Temper.

2025 Year in Review

A year ago I set an ambitious goal: Publish on Step Into Vision every day of 2025. This week I reached that goal! Some quick stats from 2025.

Keeping the daily cadence has been an enormous amount of work, but it has been worth every second. The work has snowballed into a knowledge base for all visionOS developers. I made a quick video to recap the year. Check it out!

Much work remains for 2026. There are sections of Example Code I haven’t started. I have many labs to toil in. I’m excited to work on larger projects and courses. I want to include new writers and contributors. Clearly, I have plenty of new things for you in 2026. I won’t stick to a daily posting schedule. I need to dedicate more time to develop many topics I want to explore.

Aside from the content on the site, there are some other items worth highlighting.

Step Into Office Hours: I did a few private sessions in December of 2024, then launched this as weekly meeting in 2025. This was the best decision I made the whole year. These meetings became the highlight of my week. A time and place to show my work try to be of service to others. I met dozens of visionOS developers, many of whom are now regular members of a new community. In the fall, we launched a second edition called Step Into Office Hours EMEA hosted by Roxana Monica Nagy and Cristian Díaz. With two weekly meetings, we were able to expand our reach in a larger community around the world.

Towards the end of the year Roxana Monica Nagy and Paolo Villanueva had an idea to make a Yearbook. We snapped a few photos during office hours throughout December. Here is the result!

The first Office Hours Yearbook

Celebrating One Year: I hosted a Birthday Bash to celebrate the first year of the website. I talked about where the project came from and shared a look at the roadmap. Many of these items are in development and will be launching in 2026. I knew when I wrote that post that I could not build all this on my own. I needed to surround myself with like-minded partners. We teased the first look at this partnership on December 1: Shaping the Future of Step Into Vision

Our Full Team

We have a beta version of the Community Calendar and an internal prototype of the Developer Directory. We’re hard at work on the YouTube channel and we hope to launch a podcast soon. We have a lot of amazing things in the works.

Another initiative I’m particularly proud of is the Shared Visions Community Project. I shared my vision for this in August and set out to gather a community. Nearly eighty people answered. We’ve been organizing and building the foundation of what will be some an incredible documentary about the Apple Vision Pro community. We’ve had several great workshops with more happening soon. In fact, the next one is next week.

I want to thank every single one of you who has followed and supported this project throughout 2025. Your kind works and encouragement have kept me going when I wanted to give up. I also want to thank my new partners. I’m proud of what I’ve built on my own, but our work together will eclipse it in no time. Thank you all and Happy New Year. Let’s keep building the future, one day at a time.

Joseph Simpson
January 2, 2026

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