Hands On With visionOS 2025 Kodeco Webinar

This is a webinar I gave to the Kodeco iOS Bootcamp in Nov 2025

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2. •State of the Platform •Daily use of Vision Pro •Media Consumption •Coding for visionOS •Q&A Agenda
3. •Latest model Vision Pro w/M5 •Available in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, & U.K. •~600,000 Vision Pros sold •Thousands of developers •LinkedIn, Slack, Discord •visionOS 26.1 State of the platform: Vision Pro
4. @timmitra Why Should You Learn How to Create visionOS Apps? There will be businesses no one has thought of! • visionOS 26 (aka 3rd version) • is the operating system that runs on the Vision Pro • written primarily in SwiftUI • can run apps built for UIKit • compatible with iPadOS* • Surgery, Architecture, Construction, Games, Immersive, Mac Mirroring. • “An iPad you wear on your face”
5. Developer Labs & In-store Demo “The Vision Pro and visionOS are poised to create a paradigm shift in the idea of computing. Spatial computing involves interacting with elements rendered in front and around the computer user.” Work With Apple - Vision Pro (QR code)
6. Developer Labs & In-store Demo “The Vision Pro and visionOS are poised to create a paradigm shift in the idea of computing. Spatial computing involves interacting with elements rendered in front and around the computer user.”
7. Using the Vision Pro
8. Spatial Computing?
9. @timmitra
10. @timmitra
11. @timmitra
12. @timmitra Mac Mirroring: Standard & Wide
13. @timmitra Mac Mirroring: Standard & Wide
14. @timmitra Mac Mirroring: Standard & Wide
15. @timmitra Mac Mirroring: Ultra-wide
16. Spatial WWDC Keynote
17. Apple Immersive Video
18. Spatial FaceTime
19. Spatial FaceTime
20. Develop with the Vision Pro
21. @timmitra The Three Faces of visionOS Three Pillars • Window • Majority of apps • Run in the Shared Space. • Volume • ~1 cubic meter • Immersive • Takes over the full space • Partial - dial back with the Digital Crown • .mixed, .full • Environments
22. @timmitra The Three Faces of visionOS Media Experiences • Apple Projected Media Profile (APMP) • Added 180º, 360º and Wide FoV
23. @timmitra The Three Faces of visionOS World Anchors • Anchor to world positions and persists when restarting • Eg. With app widgets
24. visionOS is deep!
25. RealityKit
26. @timmitra Tools The players RealityKit SwiftUI (UIKit) ARKit/Metal Xcode 26 Reality Composer Pro Unity Pro
27. @timmitra SR Measure
28. @timmitra Reekon Tools
29. @timmitra NVidia Omniverse
30. @timmitra PortalGate
31. @timmitra It’s built with SwiftUI
32. @timmitra It’s built with SwiftUI
33. @timmitra Vision Pro Simulator
34. @timmitra var body: some Scene { WindowGroup(){ CourseListView() }.windowStyle(.plain) } Window Group in @app • .automatic, .plain, .volumetric
35. @timmitra RealityView { content, attachments in // Add the initial RealityKit content let ball = ModelEntity( mesh: .generateSphere(radius: 0.05), materials: [SimpleMaterial(color: .white, isMetallic: true)]) // set ball position x,y,z ball.generateCollisionShapes(recursive: false) ball.components.set(InputTargetComponent()) ball.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateSphere(radius: 0.05)])) ball.components[PhysicsBodyComponent.self] = .init( PhysicsBodyComponent( massProperties: .init(mass: 50.0), material: .generate(staticFriction: 10.0, dynamicFriction: 50.0, restitution: 0.0), mode: .dynamic ) ) ball.components[PhysicsBodyComponent.self]?.isAffectedByGravity = true content.add(ball) } RealityView
36. @timmitra • simpler than RealityView • used to asynchronously load and display a model • from the specified URL • .usdz or • .reality model • from app's bundle. • Good for product gallery app Model3D(named: "Robot-Drummer") { model in model .resizable() .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit) } placeholder: { ProgressView() } Model3D( url: URL(string: “https://example.com/robot.usdz”)! ) .frame( width: 300, height: 600 ) Model3D
37. @timmitra Reality Composer Pro (SPM)
38. @timmitra Reality Composer Pro viewport Project nav Inspector
39. *New - WWDC24
40. *New - WWDC24
41. @timmitra @State var runAnimation: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { RealityView { content in if let scene = try? await Entity(named: "Scene", in: realityKitContentBundle) { content.add(scene) } } update: { content in if let scene = content.entities.first { if runAnimation { scene.availableAnimations.forEach { animation in scene.playAnimation(animation.repeat(), transitionDuration: 3, startsPaused: false) } // … } } } // ... } } Volume (load Scene)
42. @timmitra import RealityKit import RealityKitContent @State private var currentStyle: ImmersionStyle = .full var body: some Scene { WindowGroup(){ CourseListView() }.windowStyle(.plain) ImmersiveSpace(id: "ImmersiveScene") { ImmersiveView() } .immersionStyle(selection: $currentStyle, in: .full) } Immersive App
43. @timmitra struct ContentView: View { @State private var showImmersiveSpace = false @State private var immersiveSpaceIsShown = false @Environment(\.openImmersiveSpace) var openImmersiveSpace @Environment(\.dismissImmersiveSpace) var dismissImmersiveSpace var body: some View { VStack { VStack (spacing: 12) { Toggle("Show ImmersiveSpace", systemImage: "mountain.2",isOn: $showImmersiveSpace) } } .onChange(of: showImmersiveSpace) { _, newValue in Task { if newValue { switch await openImmersiveSpace(id: "ImmersiveSpace") { case .opened: immersiveSpaceIsShown = true // … } } // ... } ContentView
44. @timmitra Skybox
45. @timmitra Immersive App
46. @timmitra Insight Heart
47. @timmitra SimulatorPlayground
48. @timmitra SimulatorPlayground
49. @timmitra Beat Punch Fitness
50. •Mentors •Intro to visionOS •modes; window, volumes, immersive •Introduction to Reality Composer Pro •Accessibility & Design •RealityKit •Reality Composer Pro •Capstone project Bootcamp Syllabus
51. •https://developer.apple.com/ visionos/work-with-apple/ •https://www.kodeco.com/ios/ programs/visionos •https://www.linkedin.com/ groups/12922559/ •https://stepinto.vision/ Source: Apple Useful Links:
52. @timmitra About: Tim Mitra • iOS Dev - 15 years • visionOS Engineer - 2 years • visionOS SME at Kodeco • MTJC podcast - 11th year • Kodeco authored 11 years • lkn.bio/timmitra • @timmitra