Step Into Newsletter – May 2, 2025

Your weekly recap from Step Into Vision.

Happy Friday everyone. I hope to see you later today for Office Hours.

This was a bit of an off week for me. I started working with ARKit World Anchors and ran into some issues. I decided to reach for a few other ideas instead. I’ll get back to work on the ARKit series soon.

Example Code & Labs

RealityKit Basics: pointing entities – We can use `look(at:)` and its variants to point entities to new directions.

Lab 047 – Emoji Friends – Making some little emoji spheres to bounce around my office.

Lab 048 – No really, open a window – Watch the video for this. I’ve wanted to make this for a while and finally made the chance.

Other Updates

I hit another small milestone this week. For the last four months, I’ve posted something on Step Into Vision everyday! I try to post something useful or interesting everyday. Most of the time this means example code for the various series I’m working on. Sometimes it means labs, devlogs, resources, and newsletters.

I decided revamp a project that I prototyped last year, Looming Deadlines. I wrote about the project in the first devlog and posted some updates yesterday. This is going to be my first project for visionOS, madOS and iOS. I’m thinking of this mostly as a SwiftUI project, but I want to do something special on each platform. For example, on macOS I can create floating windows and a menu bar widget. On iOS I can look into showing a countdown in the Live Activities section. For visionOS, I have a lot of ideas. There are some concepts related to windows that I can use, but I also have some ideas for how to make the app a bit more Spatial.

Looming Deadlines – Devlog 001 – Revamping a visionOS app idea and taking it in a new direction.

Looming Deadlines – Devlog 002 – Starting over with a new Xcode Project, SwiftData setup, CloudKit syncing, and opening windows.

From the Community

Tom Krikorian shared a project called Blocks Reloaded. He created this during a recent hackathon and released a version on the App Store. He also made the source code available. I’m excited to dive into this and see what I can learn! I recently added Tom’s website to the resource section on Step Into Vision.

Matt Hoerl announced an update to Beautiful Things. An updated UI, new sandbox mini-game, and tons of new models.

Last week Kerwin Kassulker attended Step Into Office Hours. While he was there he shared his LinkedIn group for Apple Vision Pro Enterprise Users. Check out the group if you are using or building for Vision Pro in the Enterprise space.