Awesome visionOS

A curated collection of resources for developers working with visionOS. Explore communities, websites, courses, tools, libraries, projects, and more to build immersive spatial computing experiences.

Table of Contents

• Communities
• Websites
• Newsletters
• Online Courses
• AI Tools
  • GPTs
  • Code Completion
• From Apple
  • WWDC
    • 2023
    • 2024
  • Samples
• Libraries
  • SwiftUI
  • RealityKit
  • ARKit
  • ShaderGraph
  • Metal
  • Media
  • Maps
  • IAP
  • Database
  • AI
  • Testing
  • Auth
  • Others
  • React
• Tools
• Gists
• Projects
  • Apps
  • Examples
• Articles
  • Media
  • Reality Composer
  • SwiftUI

Communities

• visionOS Developer Group on LinkedIn
  Connect with visionOS professionals on LinkedIn.
• /r/VisionPro
  A subreddit for visionOS discussions.
• Vision Pro Discord
  Join the conversation on Discord.
• Apple Vision Pro Community on X
  Engage with developers on X (formerly Twitter).

Websites

• Step Into Vision

Newsletters

• visionOS fan

Online Courses

• Apple Vision Pro Master Class
  Learn to create Vision Pro apps with Swift.
• Become a visionOS Specialist
  Craft groundbreaking 3D experiences for the future of visionOS.

AI Tools

GPTs

• visionOS Assist
  Get up-to-date answers on visionOS 2 development.
• VisionOS Copilot
  A GPT tailored to assist with building VisionPro and visionOS apps.
• iOS & visionOS App Builder
  Expert Swift coder with integrated documentation for visionOS & RealityKit.
• visionOS Dev
  Generate Apple Vision Pro apps with ease.
• VisionOS Developer
  An assistant and project generator trained with the latest docs.

Code Completion

• CopilotForXcode
  An Xcode source editor extension inspired by GitHub Copilot, Codeium, and ChatGPT.

From Apple

WWDC

2023

• Get started with building apps for spatial computing
• Meet Safari for spatial computing
• Develop your first immersive app
• Meet SwiftUI for spatial computing
• Build great games for spatial computing
• Design for spatial user interfaces
• Design for spatial input
• Principles of spatial design
• Meet UIKit for spatial computing
• Build spatial SharePlay experiences
• Discover Quick Look for spatial computing
• Enhance your spatial computing app with RealityKit
• Evolve your ARKit app for spatial experiences
• Explore materials in Reality Composer Pro
• Explore rendering for spatial computing
• Meet ARKit for spatial computing
• Take SwiftUI to the next dimension
• Work with Reality Composer Pro content in Xcode
• Explore enhancements to RoomPlan
• Meet Object Capture for iOS

2024

• Build compelling spatial photo and video experiences
• Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro
• Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
• Design great visionOS apps
• Discover RealityKit APIs for iOS, macOS and visionOS
• Enhance your spatial computing app with RealityKit audio
• Explore multiview video playback in visionOS
• Explore object tracking for visionOS
• Introducing enterprise APIs for visionOS
• What’s new in SwiftUI
• Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit
• Create custom environments for your immersive apps in visionOS
• Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces
• Enhance the immersion of media viewing in custom environments
• Explore game input in visionOS
• Meet TabletopKit for visionOS
• Optimize for the spatial web
• Render Metal with passthrough in visionOS
• Work with windows in SwiftUI
• Break into the RealityKit debugger
• Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS
• Build immersive web experiences with WebXR
• Create custom hover effects in visionOS
• Design interactive experiences for visionOS
• Discover area mode for Object Capture
• Get started with HealthKit in visionOS
• Optimize your 3D assets for spatial computing
• Customize spatial Persona templates in SharePlay
• What’s new in Quick Look for visionOS

Samples

• Hello World
  Learn to use windows, volumes, and immersive spaces.
• Destination Video
  Leverage 3D video and Spatial Audio for immersive experiences.
• Happy Beam
  Create a fun game using ARKit in a full space.
• Diorama
  Design scenes using Reality Composer Pro.
• Swift Splash
  Use RealityKit to create an interactive ride.
• Incorporating real-world surroundings in an immersive experience
  Make your app’s content respond to the local shape of the world.
• Placing content on detected planes
  Detect horizontal and vertical surfaces.
• Tracking specific points in world space
  Retrieve the position and orientation of stored anchors.
• Converting side-by-side 3D video to multiview HEVC
  Convert existing 3D HEVC files for visionOS playback.
• Construct an immersive environment for visionOS
  Build efficient custom worlds.
• Transforming RealityKit entities using gestures
  Support standard visionOS gestures on any entity.
• Simulating physics with collisions in your visionOS app
  Create entities that react like physical objects.
• Simulating particles in your visionOS app
  Attach particle emitter components for visual effects.
• BOT-anist
  Build a multiplatform app featuring windows, volumes, and animations.
• Building an immersive media viewing experience
  Enhance media playback with RealityKit and Reality Composer Pro.
• Enabling video reflections in an immersive environment
  Add video reflections for a more immersive experience.
• Exploring object tracking with ARKit
  Track real-world objects using ARKit.
• Composing interactive 3D content with RealityKit and Reality Composer Pro
  Build interactive scenes with animation timelines.
• Presenting an artist’s scene
  Display a Reality Composer Pro scene.
• Creating a spatial drawing app with RealityKit
  Use low-level mesh and texture APIs to achieve fast updates.
• Combining 2D and 3D views in an immersive app
  Attach 2D content relative to 3D content.
• Creating a Spaceship game
  Build an immersive game using RealityKit features.
• Rendering a windowed game in stereo
  Bring and enhance your iOS or iPadOS game for visionOS.
• Building local experiences with room tracking
  Use room tracking for custom interactions.
• Visualizing HealthKit State of Mind in visionOS
  Incorporate and visualize HealthKit data.
• Customizing spatial Persona templates
  Arrange spatial Personas for team-based games.
• Creating a data visualization dashboard with Swift Charts
  Visualize large data collections efficiently.
• Enhancing your app’s content with tab navigation
  Use SwiftUI for seamless navigation.
• Creating tabletop games
  Develop spatial board games.
• Creating 2D shapes in visionOS with SwiftUI
  Draw 2D shapes with built-in or custom SwiftUI shapes.
• Creating 3D entities in visionOS with RealityKit
  Display 3D shapes using predefined meshes.
• Creating SwiftUI windows in visionOS
  Manage multiple SwiftUI windows.
• Creating 3D models as movable windows
  Display 3D content in volumetric windows.
• Creating immersive spaces in visionOS
  Enhance apps with immersive spaces using SwiftUI and RealityKit.
• Displaying a 3D environment through a portal

Libraries

SwiftUI

• Glur
  A SwiftUI library using Metal for efficient progressive blurs.
• SwiftUI Shimmer
  Easily add a shimmering effect to any SwiftUI view.
• CodeEditorView
  A code editor view for iOS, visionOS, and macOS.
• DSWaveformImage
  Draw audio waveforms with a native interface.
• EmojiKit
  A Swift SDK to work with emojis on Apple platforms.
• Vortex
  High-performance particle effects in SwiftUI.
• Orb
  A mesmerizing orb built entirely in SwiftUI.
• ScenesManager
  Manage windows and immersive spaces in visionOS apps.

RealityKit

• RealityGeometries
  Additional geometries for RealityKit 2+—visionOS ready.
• GoncharKit
  Helper functions for RealityKit on visionOS.
• PlanePlopper
  Simplify persistent immersive object placement.
• RealityBound
  Visualize bounding boxes in RealityKit for visionOS.

ARKit

• FindSurface
  Extract 3D geometry from point cloud data.

ShaderGraph

• ShaderGraphCoder
  Write RealityKit shaders in Swift.

Metal

• swifty-creatives
  A creative coding framework built on Metal, inspired by Processing.

Media

• KSPlayer
  A video player for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS based on AVPlayer and FFmpeg.
• HaishinKit.swift
  A camera and microphone streaming library via RTMP and SRT.

Maps

• Mapbox
  Embed highly customized maps with the Mapbox Maps SDK.

IAP

• RevenueCat Purchases
  Simplify in-app purchases and subscriptions.
• Flare
  Another solution for in-app purchases and subscriptions.

Database

• Firebase
  Firebase SDK for Apple app development.

AI

• MLX
  Swift API for MLX – an array framework for Apple silicon.
• LLM.swift
  A simple library to interact with large language models locally.
• WhisperKit
  On-device speech recognition for Apple Silicon.
• GPTalks
  A multi-platform ChatGPT API client written in SwiftUI.

Testing

• MockingKit
  Easily mock protocols and classes in Swift.

Auth

• OAuthKit
  A Swift package for OAuth 2.0.

Others

• AppState
  Effortless state management and dependency injection for Swift 6.

React

• react-native-visionos
  Build native visionOS apps using React.

Tools

• reality-check
  An open-source Mac app for streamlined debugging and real-time preview of AR projects built with RealityKit.
• Spatial
  A free macOS CLI tool to process MV-HEVC video files and spatial photos.
• Spatial-Metadata
  Prepare immersive content for Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest HMDs.
• visionOS App Icon Web Previewer
  Arrange, preview, and export app icons for visionOS online.

Gists

• View+WindowGeometryPreferences.swift
  A SwiftUI view modifier to hide window resize handles or constrain aspect ratios.
• ScaledVolumeContentView.swift
  Example for making visionOS volumes work with window zoom.
• Extension+ModelComponent.swift
  Extension to dump mesh data from a ModelComponent.
• BubbleRealityView.swift
  A floating, morphing transparent sphere RealityView built from a LowLevelMesh.
• GradientTextureSphereView.swift
  LowLevelMesh sphere with a programmatically generated gradient texture.

Projects

Apps

• PersonaChess
  A chess game with SharePlay support.
• HandsRuler
  A measure app using hand tracking for Apple Vision Pro.
• ALVR
  Experimental visionOS client for ALVR – SteamVR on Apple Vision Pro.
• AugmenosCode
  An educational app showcasing visionOS capabilities with open source code.
• openimmersive
  A free, open immersive video player for Apple Vision Pro.

Examples

• Terrain
  Procedurally generated terrain using RealityKit.
• visionOS_30Days
  Daily examples implementing various visionOS features.
• visionOS-examples
  A collection of visionOS feature examples.
• Immersive Video Player Sample
• SpatialPlayer
  An example MV-HEVC spatial/immersive video player.
• metal-spatial-rendering
  A minimal example rendering a fully immersive spatial experience using Metal, ARKit, and visionOS Compositing Services.
• SpatialMetal
  VisionOS Metal refactored from FullyImmersiveMetal.
• SpatialMetal2
  Extended SpatialMetal with multiple shaders.
• VisionProVacuumDemo
  A demo showcasing Apple Vision Pro with RealityKit and ARKit.
• HandTrackingSandbox
  A playful sandbox where the physical environment interacts with virtual content.
• Agora Quickstart
  Basic visionOS video call using the Agora RTC SDK.
• SceneVisualizer
  Visualize LIDAR information received by Vision Pro.
• HandVector
  Calculate hand gesture similarity using the Cosine Similarity Algorithm.
• MLX & Mistral
  Examples using MLX Swift & Mistral.
• metal-spatial-dynamic-mesh
  Demonstration of RealityKit's LowLevelMesh API.
• Settings-visionOS
  A SwiftUI recreation of the visionOS Settings app.
• VOClimateSpiral
  A simple AR app showing the climate spiral.
• Procedural Generation
  Procedurally generated meshes using Metal.
• VisionOS2SampleVolumeOrnaments
  Sample demonstrating ornaments with Volumes.
• VisionOS-Prototypes
  A collection of interactive visionOS prototypes built with SwiftUI.
• HoudiniMeshSync
  Sync meshes between Houdini and Apple Vision Pro.
• RealityGlitchArt
  Shader Graph examples for visionOS2.0+/iOS18+ achieving a cyberpunk glitch art effect.
• SpatialEffectsVideoPlayer
  Spatial effects synced to video metadata.
• HLS360VideoMaterial
  Use video material with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) 360 video.
• VisionProSwiftSamples
  Vision Pro samples covering ARKit, RealityKit, and GroupActivities.
• Cubes
  A visionOS sample using RealityKit to demonstrate ornaments, shadows, collisions, and audio.
• ShaderGraphByExamples
  Examples of ShaderGraph Materials with RealityKit.
• ScenesManager-Example
  Demonstrates the usage of the ScenesManager SwiftUI package.
• visions-os-workshop
  A workshop for visionOS development.
• SGMExamples
  A collection of Shader Graph Materials for visionOS.

Articles

Media

• Immersive Video: Which camera is right?

Reality Composer

• Unlocking the Power of visionOS Particles: A Detailed Tutorial

SwiftUI

• Color Contrast on Apple Vision Pro

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