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Issue 2: diff visionOS

Published 23 days ago • 1 min read

Hacking on visionOS!

Last weekend I was a mentor on the first Vision Hack hackathon organized by Cosmo Scarf, Matt Hoerl, and Brian Boyd. There were 185 participants, from 21 countries, creating 61 visionOS projects and sharing in $2,500 in cash and prizes.

Snap rolled out their 5th edition Snap AR Specticals in Santa Monica. "Another step on the evolutionary path of spatial computing with the benefit of no cables and optical seen through HMD AR. The field of view is bigger than the last set. Scott Myers talked about the research that the portrait FoV is shown to be better (same with Magic Leap) for UX." - Oliver Weidlich.

visionOS 2.0 is officially released as well as Xcode 16, to accompany the releases of the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, and Air Pods Series 4. Along with visionOS 2.0, we got macOS Sonoma, iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and watchOS 11 releases. We covered the Apple announcement event on MTJC podcast, "It's Glowtime".

Let's dive into this week’s roundup and explore how you can transform your ideas into visionary experiences!

Here are some of the best picks:

Here'sCosmos post in Vision Hack with the list of winners, and my post on some interesting demo videos.

Some new things I found (or remembered)

Events:

Socials:

App Lists:

Check out my GitHub post on Awesome visionOS resources. I'll be updating the page regularly as I come across more interesting resources.
​https://github.com/timmitra/visionosresources​

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