We applied for the visionOS enterprise permission license, which can help us improve object tracking capabilities on Vision Pro. However, we are unsure how to use it in Unity, specifically how to implement object tracking in Unity and increase the tracking speed.
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We use SceneReconstructionProvider to detect meshes in the surrounding environment and apply an OcclusionMaterial to them.
// Assuming `entity` represents one of the detected mesh in the environment
entity.components.set(ModelComponent(
mesh: mesh,
materials: [OcclusionMaterial()]
))
While this correctly occludes entities placed in the immersive space, it also occludes system windows. This becomes problematic when a window is dragged into an occluded area (before or after entering the immersive space), preventing interaction with its elements. In some cases, it also makes it impossible to focus on the window’s drag handle, since this might become occluded as well after moving the window nearby. More generally, system windows can be occluded when they come into proximity with a model that has OcclusionMaterial applied.
I'm aware of a change introduced in visionOS 2 regarding how occlusions interact with UI elements (as noted in the release notes). I believe this change was intended to ensure windows do not remain visible when opened in another room. However, this also introduces some challenges, as described in the scenario above.
Is there a way to prevent system window occlusion while still allowing entities to be occluded by environmental features? Perhaps not using OcclusionMaterial at all?
Development environment: Xcode 16.2, macOS 15.2
Run-time configuration: visionOS 2.2 and 2.3
Hello All,
We're going to do a scene now, kind of like a time travel door. When the user selects the scene, the user passes through the door to show the current scene. The changes in the middle need to be more natural. It's even better if you can walk through an immersive space...
There is very little information now. How can I start doing this? Is there any information I can refer to
thanks
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?
Hello, I am trying to develop an app that broadcasts what the user sees via Apple Vision Pro. I am a graduate student studying at the university.
And I have two problems,
If I want to use passthrough in screen capture (in VisionOS), do I have to join Apple Developer Enterprise Program to get Enterprise API?
and Can I buy Apple Developer Enterprise Program (Enterprise API) with my university account?
Have any of you been able to do this?
Thank you
I am using HelloPhotogrammetry in Xcode
I can make one model with something like HelloPhotogrammetry.main([path_to_folder_of images, path_to_output/model.usdz, "-d", "medium", "-o", "unordered", "-f", "high" ])
But how would I request several models simultaneously? I only want to vary the detail.
[ ("/Users/you/Desktop/model_medium.usdz", detail: .medium), ("/Users/you/Desktop/model_full.usdz", detail: .full), ("/Users/you/Desktop/model_raw.usdz", detail: .raw ]
Hello everyone,
I've been trying for a few weeks now to convert a sequential series of meshes into a stop-motion animation in USDZ format.
In Unreal Engine, I’ve already figured out how to transform the sequential series of individual meshes into a smooth animation using the node system and arrays.
Unfortunately, the node system cannot be exported as a usdz animation logic in either Unreal or Blender.
Because of this, I have tried several other methods to incorporate the animation logic. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
I attempted to create the animation in Blender with Render-/Viewports and mapping it to keyframes. However, in my experience, Viewports are not supported in the conversion.
I tried aligning the vertices of individual objects and merging the frames using the Shrinkwrap modifier in Blender, then setting up a morph animation with keyframes. However, because the individual meshes are too different, this results in artifacts, and manually editing each mesh is too difficult for me to handle.
I placed all individual meshes at the same position and animated them sequentially by scaling them from 0 to 100 in keyframes (Frame 1 is visible for 10 frames, then scales down at frame 11, while Frame 2 becomes visible at frame 11, and so on). I also adjusted the keyframes so that the scaling happens in a "constant" manner rather than the default Bezier or linear interpolation. I then converted this animation to .abc, and the result initially looked good. However, some information is lost when converting it with OpenUSD. The animation does not maintain its intended jump-like behavior in USDZ format, and instead, the scaling of individual files is visible in the animation.
I tried using a Blender add-on (StepMotion), which allows the animation to be exported as .abc, but it can only be read in Blender or Unreal. Even in the preview, the animation is not displayed correctly, so converting the animation logic does not work either.
Unfortunately, I have no alternative way to create the animation, as the individual frames have been provided to me as meshes. So far, I haven’t found a way to implement this successfully.
I would be very grateful for any tips or ideas, as I am running out of options on how to make this work.
Thanks in advance!
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Core Animation
Reality Converter
Visual Design
USDZ
Previously I had developed software using SMI eye trackers, both screen mounted and their mobile glasses, for unique therapeutic and physiology applications. Sadly, after SMI was bought by Apple, their hardware and software have been taken off the market and now it is very difficult to get secondhand-market systems. The Apple Vision Pro integrates the SMI hardware. While I can use ARKit to get gaze position, I do not see a way to access information that was previously made accessible on the SMI hardware, particularly: dwell time and pupil diameter information. I am hopeful (or asking) to see that if a user has a properly set up Optic ID and would opt-in if, either on the present or a future version of visionOS, it might be possible to get access to the data streams for dwell times and pupil diameter. Pupil diameter is particularly important as it is a very good physiological measure of how much stress a person is encountering, which is critical to some of the therapeutic applications that formerly we used SMI hardware. Any ideas, or, if this is not possible, proposing this to the visionOS team would be appreciated!
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General
Hi,
we've been through the Explore Object Tracking for visionOS and worked through the sample code ExploringObjectTrackingWithARKit.
What we'd really like to see is Object Tracking for iOS using devices with either LiDAR or the TrueDepth/RGB cameras.
With the new ImagePresentationComponent in visionOS 26, how can text/overlays be shown on top of the image as seen in the Spatial Gallery app?
What is recommended best practice for importing a Blender 3D file into RCP? I assume as a .usdz file? Is there a WWDC24 session or other Apple resource that best explains this. I want to make sure I provide the right format/file to RCP from Blender.
In visionOS, once an immersive space is opened, the background color is solid black, is it possible to make this background transparent?
FYI, The Immersive spaces on visionOS uses Compositor Services for drawing 3D content.
Hi folks, I’m new to Vision Pro stack, still trying to learn all the nuances. Here is a problem I can’t seem to find an answer.
I placed entity A( a small .02 radius sphere) inside entity B( size:.1 box). Both entities have HoverEffectComponent, and both inputcomponent is set to .direct. Entity A is NOT a child of Entity B. When I direct touch Entity B, I noticed that Entity A’s hover effect is fired as well. This only happens if Entity A‘s position is inside Entity B. The gesture that is only targeted at Entity A doesn’t work either. I double checked Entity A collider which sits inside entity B collider, my direct touch shouldn’t have trigger its hove effect. Having one collider inside another seems to produce unpredictable behavior? Thanks in advance 🙏🙏🙏
Context: I’m trying to create an invisible bound around Entity A, so when my hand approaches the bound to grab Entity A, a nice spotlight hover effect would fire first on the bound before hand reaching entity A.
Hi 26 beta guys,
I have apps using ARKit.
In iPadOS 26 beta, ARKit stops working after switching to other apps.
how to:
Enable WindowMode in iPadOS 26
Launch my app and start ARSession
Switch to another app (preference app, etc.)
Switch back to my app
AR stops updating camerafeed.
I debug printed ARSessionDelegate, and found that
after sessionWasInterrupted was called, sessionInterruptionEnded was never called.
sessionInterruptionEnded is called if WindowMode disabled.
Is this just a bug for 26 beta?
I suspect there is similar problem with non-AR camera.
Any idea?
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
ARKit
Hello experts, and question seekers,
I have been trying to get Gaussian splats working with RealityKit, however it seems not to work out for me.
The library I use for Gaussian splatting: https://github.com/scier/MetalSplatter
My idea was to use the renderers provided by RealityKit (aka RealityRenderer) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/realityrenderer and the renderer provided by MetalSplatter (aka. SplatRenderer) https://github.com/scier/MetalSplatter/blob/main/MetalSplatter/Sources/SplatRenderer.swift
Then with a custom render pipeline, I would be able to compose the outputs of the renderers, enabling the possibility, for example to build immersive scenery with realistic environment scans, as Gaussian splats, and RealityKit to provide the necessary features to build extra scenery around Gaussian splats, eg. dynamic 3D models inside Gaussian splats.
However the problem is, as of now I am not able to do that with the current implementation of RealityRenderer.
It seems to be, that first RealityRenderer is supposed to be an API, just to render colour information onto a texture, which in first glance might be useful, but misses important information, such as for example depth, and stencil information.
Second issue is, even with that in mind, currently I am not able to execute RealityRenderer.updateAndRender, due to the following error messages:
Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/Common/realityRendererBackground.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users//Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices//data/Containers/Bundle/Application//.app'. Loading via asset path.
exiting spatial tracking service update thread because wait returned 37”
I was able to build a custom Metal view with UIViewRepresentable, MTKView, and MTKViewDelegate, enabling me to build a custom rendering pipeline, by utilising some of the Metal developer workflows.
Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/metal-developer-workflows/
Inside draw(in view: MTKView), in a class derived by MTKViewDelegate:
guard let currentDrawable = view.currentDrawable else {
return
}
let realityRenderer = try! RealityRenderer()
try! realityRenderer.updateAndRender(deltaTime: 0.0, cameraOutput: .init(.singleProjection(colorTexture: currentDrawable.texture)), whenScheduled: { realityRenderer in
print("Rendering scheduled")
}, onComplete: { RealityRenderer in
print("Rendering completed")
})
Can you please tell me, what I am doing wrong?
Is there any solution, that enables me to use RealityKit with for example Gaussian splats?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
All the best,
Ethem Kurt
So I am exporting a .usdc file from blender that already has some morph animations. The animations play well in blender but when I export I cannot seem to play them in RealityKit or RCP.
Entity.availableAnimations is an empty array.
Not of the child objects in the entity hierarchy has an animation library component with it.
Maybe I am exporting it wrong but I tried multiple combinations but doesn't seem to work.
Here are my export settings in blender
The original file I purchased is an FBX file that has the animation but when I try to directly get it in RealityConverter it doesn't seem to play animations.
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Reality Converter
RealityKit
Reality Composer Pro
visionOS
I sketched a idea for a project in Reality Composer on my iPad, thinking when I had a chance to sit down I would work it up in Xcode.
However, when I got back to my computer, I discovered I cannot open a file created in Reality Composer (or the exported Reality file) in Reality Composer Pro.
Am I missing something obvious here, because this seems like a huge oversight.
If anyone, can let me know how to open a file created in Reality Composer in Reality Composer Pro, I would greatly appreciate it. Partly, because there seems to be objects available in Reality Composer that are not in Reality Composer Pro.
Thanks
Stan
At the moment the map kit APls only support non-volumetric maps (i.e. in a window or in a volume, but on a 2D surface).
Is support for 3D volumetric maps in VisionOS in the works? And if so when can we expect it to be available?
We have a project which is currently being built as a XCFramework.
The framework contains a custom component to be used with entities in Reality Composer Pro.
I have tried to se set the RCP Package.swift file to reference the framework package for the in the dependancies.
Nothing that I do with the folder path to reference the code is working.
Do I need to change the project to be using Swift source code instead of a XCFramework?
The component needs to be in the framework as there is a class in the framework that works directly with the custom compoent.
I am able to reference the XCFramework as a Swift Package with other projects.
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
Reality Composer Pro
.glassEffect(.regular, in: .rect(cornerRadius: 24))
error; 'glassEffect(_:in:isEnabled:)' is unavailable in visionOS
This is not surprising since visionOS already has a native glass interface that formed a model for the other OS's, but this error will create additional overhead for developers creating multi-platform apps that include visionOS.