Step Into Newsletter – October 10, 2025

Updates to RealityKit Basics, Shared Visions Project opens, and community resources.

What’s new on Step Into Vision

We’ve been busy adding new examples to our RealityKit Basics series this week. Our aim with this series is to give you a quick tour of some important concepts so you can start building with RealityKit on visionOS. If you know someone just getting started with visionOS, make sure to send this to them.

RealityKit Basics: RealityViewContent. – This structure provides access to entities, subscriptions, animations, and coordinate space conversions.

RealityKit Basics: Working with Events. – Our apps can respond to a number of scene and component events.

RealityKit Basics: Coordinate Space Conversion. – RealityViewContent provides several ways to values convert between coordinate spaces.

RealityKit Basics: Perform SwiftUI Animations. – Starting in visionOS 26, we can perform SwiftUI animations in RealityKit.

Find these and the rest of RealityKit Basics on the Learn visionOS page. We have a few new posts coming next week. We’ll explore more with SwiftUI animations. We’ll also cover Entity Actions and Entity Observations.

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Shared Visions Update

We shared some administrative updates on setting the Shared Visions Discord Server. If you signed up but haven’t seen your invite, please reach out to Joseph. We’re planning a the first Writing and Story meeting soon.

Read: Starting the Shared Visions Project

From the Community

New in the Resource Library: Antaeus AR is a Medium publication for Augmented Reality and Spatial Computing.

New app from Matt Fisher. BatRay is an advanced Battery Widget for your Apple Vision Pro.

Awesome OpenUSD curates the best of the OpenUSD resources.

Hand Physics Labs releases today on Apple Vision Pro. This port of a hand tracking classic is weird and delightful.

Jingle Chen wrapped up the Lofi Music Player built with WebSpatial. Try the web version or get it on TestFlight. The code is available here.

Cristian Díaz made the first Model Context Protocol server based on Step Into Vision.

Office Hours

Reminder: we host About Office Hours for the visionOS community. Join is each Wednesday and Friday to share your knowledge and hang out people who are building the future of Spatial Computing.