Seeing this magical sand table, the unfolding and folding effects are similar to spreading out cards, which is very interesting. But I don't know how to achieve it. I want to see if there are any ways to achieve this effect and give some ideas. May I ask if this effect can be achieved under the existing API
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Hi,
I am creating an ECS. With this ECS I will need to register several DragGesture.
Question: Is it possible to define DragGestures in ECS? If yes, how do we do that? If not, what is the best way to do that?
Question: Is there a "gesture" method that takes an array of gestures as a parameter?
I am interested in any information that can help me, if possible with an example of code.
Regards
Tof
Using Xcode v26 Beta 6 on macOS v26 Beta 25a5349a
When pressing on the home button of the visionOS simulator, I am not positioned in the middle of the room like would normally be. This occurred when moving a lot in the space to find an element added to an ImmersiveSpace.
How to resolve: restart simulator device.
See attached the pictures of the visionOSSimulatorCorrectHomePosition and the visionOSSimulatorMisallignedHomePosition.
Similar to the visionOS Spatial Gallery app, I'm developing a visionOS app that will show spatial photos and videos. Is it possible to re-create the horizontal (or a vertical) scrolling functionality that shows spatial photos and spatial video previews? Does the Spatial Gallery app use private APIs to create this functionality? I've been looking at the Quick Look documentation and have been able to use the PreviewApplication to show a single preview, but do not see anything for a collection of files as the Spatial Gallery app presents in the scrolling view. Any insights or direction on how this may be done is greatly appreciated.
I have been concentrating on developing the visionOS application. While I am currently quite familiar with RealityKit, CompositorServices has also captured my attention. I have not yet acquired knowledge of CompositorServices. Could you please clarify whether it is essential for me to learn CompositorServices? Additionally, I would appreciate it if you could provide insights into the advantages of RealityKit and CompositorServices.
We can add ornaments to popovers shown by PresentationComponent, but I’m not sure if we should.
While working on the editor for entities in a Volume-based app, I had the idea to add ornaments to the presented views. The entire app exists inside a volume. A user can tap a item to present a popoverUI to edit it. This is displayed using the new PresentationComponent in visionOS 26.
Ornaments have a new attachment anchor option this year: .parent().
.ornament(attachmentAnchor: .parent(.top), ornament: {...})
This works well in the Simulator. We can add ornaments around this popover view just like we would with a window.
Unfortunately, when I run this on device I get a different experience. Any part of the ornament that overlaps with the popover content isn’t rendered correctly. Sometimes it entirely disappears, other times it becomes partially transparent.
We could use content alignment to try to make sure the ornament doesn’t overlap the popover content.
.ornament(attachmentAnchor: .parent(.top), contentAlignment: .bottom, ornament: {...})
This works sometimes–but not all the time. It’s not clear if this is a bug or not, because I’m not sure if we are even supposed to be able to use ornaments in this way. Here is my hierarchy:
An app opens as a Volume
Volume presenting a RealityView, with its own ornament using .scene() anchor
Multiple Entities with Presentation Component show an edit view
The view uses .parent() anchor to add ornaments.
What makes me unsure is that other methods for drawing UI in RealityView don’t seem to work with ornaments. For example, if I add an attachment to show a view with the ornament–even when I use the .parent() anchor–the ornament is anchor to the volume, not the attachment view.
So what do we think? Is this a rendering bug? Are ornaments intended to work with attachments and presentations?
I’m facing an issue while using CustomHoverEffect. In my view, there is a long title, which causes the title to be truncated. When the user hovers over it, the title should scroll. Although I have already implemented the scrolling effect, I am unsure how to trigger the scroll on hover. How should I approach this?
The landing page for visionOS 26 mentions
The Unified Coordinate Conversion API makes moving views and entities between scenes straightforward — even between views and ARKit accessory anchors.
This WWDC session very briefly shows a single example of using this, but with no context. For example, they discuss a way to tell the distance between a Model3D and an entity in a RealityView. But they don't provide any details for how they are referencing the entity (bolts in the slide).
The session used the BOT-anist example project that we saw in visionOS 2, but the version on in the Sample Code library has not been updated with these examples.
I was able to put together a simple example where we can get the position of a window relative to the world origin. It even updates when the user recenters.
struct Lab080: View {
@State private var posX: Float = 0
@State private var posY: Float = 0
@State private var posZ: Float = 0
var body: some View {
GeometryReader3D { geometry in
VStack {
Text("Unified Coordinate Conversion")
.font(.largeTitle)
.padding(24)
VStack {
Text("X: \(posX)")
Text("Y: \(posY)")
Text("Z: \(posZ)")
}
.font(.title)
.padding(24)
}
.onGeometryChange3D(for: Point3D.self) { proxy in try! proxy
.coordinateSpace3D()
.convert(value: Point3D.zero, to: .worldReference)
} action: { old, new in
posX = Float(new.x)
posY = Float(new.y)
posZ = Float(new.z)
}
}
}
}
This is all that I've been able to figure out so far. What other features are included in this new Unified Coordinate Conversion?
Can we use this to get the position of one window relative to another? Can we use this to get the position of a view in a window relative to an entity in a RealityView, for example in a Volume or Immersive Space? What else can Unified Coordinate Conversion do?
Are there documentation pages that I'm missing? I'm not sure what to search for. Are there any Sample projects that use these features? Any additional information would be very helpful.
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Hi !
I'm new on this forum, so if I need to update this post to have more info, or anything else, please let me know.
I'm using the Apple Vision Pro to develop some app (with unity). To demonstrate what the user see on the headset, I would like to mirror the view on a device (an iPad in this case). I managed to do this without any issue.
My problem is that, in the Vision Pro, I have an interface that the user can interact with. But I would like to be able to manage myself the interface on the iPad. What I mean is that the user can (or can't, doesn't matter) see the interface in the headset, and the interface is controlled by myself on the iPad.
Is there any way to do this ? Is this a question I should ask on unity's forum ? (I don't think so, because it should be related to the mirroring function non ?)
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BUG IN CLIENT: For mixed reality experiences please use cp_drawable_compute_projection API
Type: Error | Timestamp: 2026-01-13 09:21:57.242191+02:00 | Process: Neuron XR | Library: CompositorNonUI | TID: 0x75e2c
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Hello,
I've been tinkering a bit with TextComponent.
Based on the docs it seems like this component should always render sharp and nice text, no matter how close the user gets:
RealityKit dynamically adjusts the backing size to a value that results in high-fidelity text at its current location.
And it does on visionOS, but on iOS and macOS the text gets pixelated when I get close to it, as if its just rendering it once as a plain image texture.
Can anyone tell me if this is expected behavior or a bug?
Here two screenshots for comparison (iPhone and Vision Pro):
Thanks!
Happy new year to all!
I have created an iOS app that also runs on Apple Vision Pro.
On iOS, when you activate the fileImporter modal, you can swipe down the modal in iOS to dismiss.
However, in visionOS, this same modal CANNOT be swiped down to cancel/dismiss. If you are drilled deep into a file hierarchy, you have to navigate back to the top level to tap X to dismiss.
Is there a way to add swipe down to the visionOS implementation of fileImporter, or any other workaround so the user doesn't have to navigate back to the top to dismiss?
Again, this is not a visionOS app but an iOS app compatible for use in Vision Pro.
Thanks!
Hi,
I'm trying to correct the lens distortion in frames provided by Enterprise API camera frame provider. The frames provided seem to have only in/extrinsics info, but not the distortion lookup table.
Is there some magic setting, or function to do that (I can't seem to find anything like this)? Or is there a way to use AVCameraCalibrationData together with provider?
Hello,
I am building a kiosk-style app for VisionOS which will be used in Guided Access mode, to be given to various visitors. So each of them will do hands + eyes setup, standard Guided Access thing.
I want my experience to auto-start playing content when setup is done. I looked everywhere, but found no way do detect whether setup is complete? Also adding any kind of interface to start the app manually is risky, since buttons etc remain visible an interactable WHILE setup takes place. Delay-based approach also wont work, since setup can be skipped, or failed, or be done quickly, slowly... So it takes between 10 seconds and a few minutes.
So the question is - is there any way to get notification, or check some bool or something that will tell me that Hands + Eyes setup in Guided mode is complete (or skipped)?
Thanks in advance!
I am beginner to spacial computing and would like to build an enterprise solution for my enterprise on VisionOS. How can I accomplish that?
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I am trying to launch a fully immersive game from Unity on a SwiftUI view. The game is using Metal Rendering with Compositor Services.
I added the unity Xcode project into the workspace, added the necessary bridge code. When I click on the button to call ufw?.showUnityWindow(), it does not start and I get the following in the console:
AR session failed to start after 5 seconds. Is the app configured to use an immersive space?
I posted https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/809481 yesterday about an issue I discovered with pushWindow in visionOS 26.2 RC, but today I discovered a second problem with pushWindow.
If window A calls pushWindow to present window B, and the user pins window B to a wall, the following unexpected behaviors are observed:
Window B spontaneously disappears.
If the user re-launches the (still running) app from the visionOS home view, both window A and window B appear simultaneously. I assume only window B should be visible at this point, since window A pushed window B.
If the user closes window B, it's now impossible to present window B again. Calls to pushWindow appear to be ignored.
If the user force-quits the app and relaunches it, and pushWindow is called again, window B appears, but window A remains visible.
I also noticed this surprising behavior:
This broken state of pushWindow behavior now affects all other apps on the system that may call pushWindow in the future, not just the app whose pushed window was pinned above.
A workaround is to reboot the device, and then the system will behave as expected until the next time the user pins a pushed window.
I recently added pushWindow to my app, and I discovered that in visionOS 26.2 RC (23N301), pushWindow followed by dismissWindow no longer works as expected.
Specifically, if the user moves the pushed window, then when the pushed window is later dismissed, the parent window's position isn't aligned with the pushed window's new position. Its original position is restored instead.
Curiously, the bug only happens when an app is launched from the visionOS home view, and not when an app is launched from Xcode. It also doesn't happen in the visionOS 26.2 simulator.
Another interesting detail is that while the parent window is hidden, if the user long-presses the Digital Crown and then dismisses the pushed window, the parent window's position seems to be immune from the Digital Crown scene reorientation. It's restored to its original real world position.
Demo video: https://youtu.be/zR3t2ON3Wz0
I've submitted feedback as FB21287011 with a sample app and detailed repro steps.
Has anyone else encountered this issue already and figured out a workaround? It would be nice if I could get pushWindow to work correctly in my app.
Thanks everybody! 😀
With Xcode 26, loading ressources with RealityKit is extremely slow.
Here my project takes almost 50 seconds to load.
I also get multiple Hang detected messages in the console:
When I uncheck "Debug executable" in the schema, the same project loads in 2 seconds.
I'm using RealityKit asynchronous loading:
private static func loadFromRealityComposerPro(
named entityName: String,
fromSceneNamed sceneName: String
) async -> Entity? {
var entity: Entity?
do {
let scene = try await Entity(
named: sceneName,
in: visionPetsContentBundle
)
entity = scene.findEntity(named: entityName)
} catch {
print(
"Error loading \(entityName) from scene \(sceneName): \(error.localizedDescription)"
)
}
return entity
}
Anyone having the same problem?
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Has Roomplan been abandoned? Two years have gone by without comments from Apple on improvements. Are the improvements behind the scenes? Is there going to be any major updates?