Step Into Newsletter – September 5, 2025

Your weekly recap from Step Into Vision.

This Week on Step Into Vision

New Example Code

How to scale RealityView content when a Volume is resized. This post shows a method to scale RealityView content based on the size of a Volume.

Spatial SwiftUI: Using Look to Scroll. We can let users look to scroll with the Scroll Input Behavior modifier in visionOS 26.

Spatial SwiftUI: Custom alignment with spatialOverlay. We can use AlignmentID to customize the alignment of a view within a .spatialOverlay.

From Project Graveyard

Project Graveyard – Devlog 006. This article describes the new record creation process and a the hacky way to set up some Lamp Post entities. These changes are available to try in TestFlight version 3.0 build 3.

Project Graveyard – Devlog 007. Dynamic lights in RealityKit don’t scale relative to their parent scene. This becomes an issue in volumes, which users can resize. We can address this by adjusting the intensity (value * scaler²) and attenuation radius (value * scaler) of our lights. This article documents this process. We’re working on a version of this as a RealityKit System that you can add to your projects.

Shared Visions Project

We published a blog post with some more information about the Shared Visions Project. We also have a video trailer for you to check out. 30+ people have signed up. Have you?

Blog Post: Shared Visions: a community project

Video Trailer: Shared Visions on YouTube

A very special Thank You to Paolo Villanueva for his incredible video editing work.

From the Community

Check out the new Apple Vision Pro Enterprise page from Apple.

Code: OpenImmersive. A free and open source MV-HEVC/AIVU spatial & immersive video player for the Apple Vision Pro.

SharePlay Game: TacTile was released by Le-Roy Karunaratne this week.

Tim was kind enough to invite Joseph back on the Vision Pros podcast to talk about visionOS 26.

Weekend Reading:

XR Must published an interview with Tom Krikorian.

Gravitas Dark Matter: designing new interactions for spatial computing on Apple Vision Pro

We hope to see you at Office Hours late today. As always, if you value the work we do at Step Into Vision, please consider supporting this project.