Step Into Newsletter – October 03, 2025

Everything you want to know about Manipulation, animating particles, and community updates.

This week on Step Into Vision

We published a huge guide teach you everything you want to know about Manipulation on visionOS 26. Eye tracking + pinch to tap was the first native input paradigm on Apple Vision Pro. Manipulation feels like the second. While there are some bugs to work out, our hope is that these APIs see wide adoption across the visionOS community.

Deep Dive into Manipulation on visionOS. – Taking the next step into creating a native input system for Apple Vision Pro.

Lab 086 – Capsule Catch. – A bit of a digression to make a drop and catch mini-game.

Lab 088 – Animated Particles. – We can provide an image that contains a grid of sub-images, and use it to generate animated effects. This lab is available as a video on our YouTube channel.

Project Graveyard – Devlog 010. – Using the same concepts documented in Lab 088, Joseph added Moths to fly around the Lamp Posts in Project Graveyard. He also started working on new light settings, including colors.

From the Community

raven.vision has been added to the Resource section. Check out the new site for the Apple Vision Pro community from Raven Zachary.

Shader Vision has been added to the Resource section. This app happens to let users write shader code–something many of us need to learn to continue working towards our goals.

Spatial Fields is a suite of apps across the Apple ecosystem for working with Gaussian Splats. See the announcement post by Contrast Media Labs.

Issue 21 of the diff visionOS newsletter is out. We’re glad to see this newsletter getting active again.

Rich Fallat has started work on a new app called Gravitas Reader. He published a video where he talks through some of the ideas for the app. Try it on TestFlight now.

Sarang Borude has published a new app called Soothing Boids. Take a break and experience something different.

Reminder: visionOS 26: The MacStories Review was published a couple of weeks ago. This deep dive into visionOS is a must read for anyone working with Apple Vision Pro.

Justin Ryan published an awesome video showing off tons of Widgets on visionOS.

Speaking of widgets, the nice folks at Antaeus AR published our guild on Building Widgets for visionOS.

We hope to see you at Office Hours!