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...

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....