Submersed In Immersive On Oct 10, 2024, Apple released Submersed on Apple TV+, a film made for the Apple Vision Pro. It tells a short story of young sailors on a submarine in WWII, which is under attack. While the audience for this film is currently small, the film represents the future of immersive story telling. I watched it when it premiered and can tell you it's unlike any other motion picture I've ever seen - and I've seen a lot. It's an amazing experience, with spatial audio effects,...

RealityKit Pivot Points For the past month and a half, I've been mentoring students in the second Kodeco visionOS Bootcamp. One of the projects submitted involved creating a controllable robotic arm. The challenge was trying to figure out how to rotate or transform the robot arm Entities connected at a joint. The student figured it out eventually (see the links below).The very next day, we discovered that Apple WWDR had published a document and sample code about the new RealityKit 2.0 physics...

Neural Link? Called it! This week Meta introduced their XR Orion glasses. They resemble standard glasses with speakers and batteries in the arms, specially engineered holographic lenses and projectors. Using eye tracking and hand gestures. They are wireless, however users will carry a puck that does the computing and wear a neural link wrist band. I've been joking that the evolution of the Vision Pro will be an implant behind your ear as Apple will project visionOS into your head. Here are...