Step Into Newsletter – July 3, 2026

Community Updates and a very early preview of the Step Into Vision app.

From Step Into Vision

We’ve been pretty busy since WWDC. We’re catching up on work and making our way through WWDC sessions. We don’t have new examples or labs just yet, but many are in the works. In the meantime, we’re hard at work building a new Step Into Vision App.

We’ll share more in dedicated devlog posts soon. For now, we’re working on a few key areas. We currently have multiple Xcode projects that we use for creating content for the site. We have a dedicated project for example code and another one for labs. We have many stand-alone projects that drill into topics like working with Windows, Volumes, and Spaces. We even have some utility apps that we use to generate screenshots.

The current example code and labs projects allow us to do the majority of our work as dedicated Swift files. A build script then adds that file to a registry that becomes available in the app. Both of these projects are the victim of slow organic growth. We’ve amassed quite a pile of assets in the Reality Composure Pro bundles and we haven’t always been good about keeping track of where something is used. The release of Reality Composer Pro 3 seems like a good time to force us to rebuild this project from the ground up.

We’re working on migrating our existing content to this app, while also building out the workflow to create new examples and labs. Eventually, this app will have all of the same categories as the website. We’ll expand this with our resource library, developer logs, newsletters, and even a dedicated podcast section.

The new project combines all of the content in one place–well, almost all of it. There may still be a few dedicated Xcode projects that won’t make it into this main Step Into Vision app. But we’re doing our best to get all of the entries in one place. Another goal for this new project is to be able to combine the code and demos with the actual articles that we publish on the site. This will allow us to show the full article, along with any inline images, videos, and code snippets. The content lives in the main window, and the lab or example opens as a new window, volume or immersive space.

As you can see from the screenshots above, we have spent basically no time on design so far.We’re just using stock Visualize controls and cobbling things together as quickly as. This will change over the next couple of months as we refine the design and the workflows for this app.

We’re building this as a visionOS app for now, but we may also create a Mac target for this. Do you think it would be helpful to have a macOS app for Step Into Vision? You could have an offline searchable archive of our content. We could even build in some agentic AI features into the app, such as an MCP server.

This project is very early, and we have no timeline of when it will be ready. We hope to get a version on TestFlight within the next couple of weeks. Make sure that you’re active in the Discord server so you know when that goes live.

From the Community

Justin Ryan had a great interview with Apple during WWDC. Definitely worth your time. YouTube
Gracia is finally on the App Store. Make sure to check out this impressive showcase of 4D Gaussian Splats.

Samuel Scalise released MindGallery on the App Store.

Merve Kavaklıoğlu released PuffPatch on the App Store. It has to be one of the cutest games on the platform.

Matt Fisher shared an iPhone workflow for capturing and publishing Spatial Video to YouTube.

Doug Holland released Martian Attack. Defend Earth from Martian invaders!

Reminder: the visionOS Professionals Survey for 2026 was released last month. Spent some time looking at how things have changed over the last year.

In case you missed it, Roxana Monica Nagy recently launched a new podcast: Women in Spatial. This should definitely be in your podcast player going forward.

Thomas Kumlehn shared some thoughts on the new Reality Composer Pro. While the new version is certainly welcome news for RealityKit developers, it leaves out a lot of USD features that were useful for building models for QuickLook.

Tomas Cupal recently launched Blockworks on the App Store. The interactions and mechanics here are truly impressive.

Look back at WWDC with Mathew Spendlove: WWDC26: Why the Community Was the Highlight for Me

Tom Betti has some weekend reading for you. The Reports of Vision Pro’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated and An Apple Vision Pro Made Me Cry. The Reason Is Personal.

Session videos from AWE are starting to hit YouTube. Make sure to check out some of the sessions from the visionOS community and explore the rest of the XR world.