So, I was trying to animate a single bone using FromToByAnimation, but when I start the animation, the model instead does the full body animation stored in the availableAnimations.
If I don't run testAnimation nothing happens.
If I run testAnimation I see the same animation as If I had called
entity.playAnimation(entity.availableAnimations[0],..)
here's the full code I use to animate a single bone:
func testAnimation() {
guard let jawAnim = jawAnimation(mouthOpen: 0.4) else {
print("Failed to create jawAnim")
return
}
guard let creature, let animResource = try? AnimationResource.generate(with: jawAnim) else { return }
let controller = creature.playAnimation(animResource, transitionDuration: 0.02, startsPaused: false)
print("controller: \(controller)")
}
func jawAnimation(mouthOpen: Float) -> FromToByAnimation<JointTransforms>? {
guard let basePose else { return nil }
guard let index = basePose.jointNames.firstIndex(of: jawBoneName) else {
print("Target joint \(self.jawBoneName) not found in default pose joint names")
return nil
}
let fromTransforms = basePose.jointTransforms
let baseJawTransform = fromTransforms[index]
let maxAngle: Float = 40
let angle: Float = maxAngle * mouthOpen * (.pi / 180)
let extraRot = simd_quatf(angle: angle, axis: simd_float3(x: 0, y: 0, z: 1))
var toTransforms = basePose.jointTransforms
toTransforms[index] = Transform(
scale: baseJawTransform.scale * 2,
rotation: baseJawTransform.rotation * extraRot,
translation: baseJawTransform.translation
)
let fromToBy = FromToByAnimation<JointTransforms>(
jointNames: basePose.jointNames,
name: "jaw-anim",
from: fromTransforms,
to: toTransforms,
duration: 0.1,
bindTarget: .jointTransforms,
repeatMode: .none,
)
return fromToBy
}
PS: I can confirm that I can set this bone to a specific position if I use
guard let index = newPose.jointNames.firstIndex(of: boneName) ...
let baseTransform = basePose.jointTransforms[index]
newPose.jointTransforms[index] = Transform(
scale: baseTransform.scale,
rotation: baseTransform.rotation * extraRot,
translation: baseTransform.translation
)
skeletalComponent.poses.default = newPose
creatureMeshEntity.components.set(skeletalComponent)
This works for manually setting the bone position, so the jawBoneName and the joint-transformation can't be that wrong.
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I have been using ARKit to get hand tracking data on a continuous loop by implementing the AnchorUpdateSequence.
I want to try out the .predicted hand tracking, but it seems as though using ARKit session and HandTrackingProvider do not allow me to enable this feature?
Seeing this magical sand table, the unfolding and folding effects are similar to spreading out cards, which is very interesting. But I don't know how to achieve it. I want to see if there are any ways to achieve this effect and give some ideas. May I ask if this effect can be achieved under the existing API
Topic:
Spatial Computing
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General
This modifier in visionOS 2.5 works perfectly with LazyVgrid inside a Stack in ScrollView:
.hoverEffect { effect, isActive, _ in
effect.scaleEffect(isActive ? 1.1 : 1.0)
But the grid does not scroll in visionOS 26 beta 1 unless the scaleEffect is commented out.
FB17941468
We are building an AR experience for deployment on iphones. We are using Unity but it looks as if Reality Composer Pro has better features for spatial audio. I am not sure if Reality Composer Pro can only be used for Vision Pro or can it also be used for deployment on Iphone or ipad.
Hello! I’m familiar with the discussion on “Sending messages to the scene”, and I’ve successfully used that code.
However, I have several instances of the same model in my scene.
Is it possible to make only one specific model respond to a notification?
For example, can I pass something like RealityKit.NotificationTrigger.SourceEntity in userInfo or use another method to target just one instance?
Topic:
Spatial Computing
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Reality Composer Pro
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visionOS
Hi, I have been using RealityRenderer to render scenes in MacOS as spatial videos and view it in Vision Pro and it is awesome. I understand that it uses PerspectiveCamera to render. I wanted to know what is the default FOV for this camera and how much can we push it? I want to ideally render a scene with 180 degrees of fov. Thanks
Following up on my previous question here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/774262
Having solved the clipping problem, I am now trying to overlay some content in front of the RealityView. However, it looks like any content with transparency does not render in front of the RealityView, while opaque views seem to work; placing content with transparency like glassBackgroundEffect() behind the RealityView in a ZStack causes the entire window to flicker.
Additionally, my SwiftUI attachment placed in front of the stereoscopic image plane are invisible if the user look at it straight at 90 degrees. However, if the user look at it from increasing angles from the sides, the attachment gradually turns visible again.
Are these behaviors expected? What is a recommended approach to overlay content in front of a RealityView? Thanks!
I am developing an app which needs high-quality immersion on VisionOS. I found that when some messages pop up, the virtual object will get transparent so the immersion is broken. How could I disable such pop-up messages when the ImmersiveSpace is open
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I want an AR character to be able to look at a position while still playing the characters animation.
So far, I managed to manually adjust a single bone rotation using
skeletalComponent.poses.default = Transform(
scale: baseTransform.scale,
rotation: lookAtRotation,
translation: baseTransform.translation
)
which I run at every rendering update, while a full body animation is running.
But of course, hardcoding single joints to point into a direction (in my case the head) does not look as nice, as if I were to run some inverse cinematic that includes, hips + neck + head joints.
I found some good IKRig code in Composing interactive 3D content with RealityKit and Reality Composer Pro.
But when I try to adjust rigs while animations are playing, the animations are usually winning over the IKRig changes to the mesh.
Hi all,
I'm working on an ARKit-based iOS app where I need to accurately determine the direction the device is facing to localize objects in the real world. I'm using:
let config = ARWorldTrackingConfiguration()
config.worldAlignment = .gravityAndHeading
Thus, I would expect the world alignment to behave as given in the gravityAndHeading page.
The AR session is started after verifying that CLLocationManager.headingAccuracy <= 20, and the compass appears to be calibrated.
However, I'm seeing a major inconsistency:
When the rear camera is physically pointed toward true North, I would expect:
cameraTransform.columns.2.z ≈ -1 // (i.e. ARKit's -Z pointing North)
But instead, I'm consistently seeing:
cameraTransform.columns.2.z ≈ +0.97 // Implies camera is facing South
Meanwhile, the translation vector behaves as expected:
As I physically move North, cameraTransform.columns.3.z becomes more negative, matching the world’s +Z = South assumption.
For example, let's say I have the device in landscapeRight (or landscapeLeft for UIDeviceOrientation). Let's say the device rear camera is pointing towards True North, and I start moving towards True North. I get something like this:
Camera Transform = simd_float4x4(
[
[0.98446155, -0.030119859, 0.172998, 0.0],
[0.023979114, 0.9990097, 0.037477385, 0.0],
[-0.17395553, -0.032746706, 0.98420894, 0.0],
[0.024039675, -0.037087332, -0.22780673, 0.99999994]
])
As you can see, the cameraTransform.columns.2.z is positive despite the rear camera pointing towards True North, while cameraTransform.columns.3.z is correctly positive as the device is moving towards True North.
So here is my question:
Why is cameraTransform.columns.2.z positive when the rear camera is physically facing North?
Any clarity would be deeply appreciated. I've read the documentation and tested with different heading accuracies and AR session resets, but I keep running into this orientation mismatch.
Thanks in advance!
My friend cannot build my visionOS project in the simulator. He gets the following error.
Error:
[xrsimulator] Exception thrown during compile: cannotGetRkassetsContents(path: "/Users/path/to/Packages/RealityKitContent/Sources/RealityKitContent/RealityKitContent.rkassets")
In Xcode, he is able to open the RealityKitContent package in realityComposer Pro by clicking on the Package.realitycomposerpro file. No warnings show up wrt this error in RCP either. All scenes appear to be usable/navigable in RCP. This error only comes up when he tries to build the project in Xcode command+b. The is no other information in the Report Navigator's Build logs for this error. The error is always followed by this next error.
Error:
Tool exited with code 1
Yikes, please help!
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
Reality Composer Pro
Hello
When processing an ARPlaneAnchor geometry using its ARPlaneGeometry, the triangleIndices is an array of Int16. It's supposed to be an index buffer, which can only be uint16 or uint32 metal. What am I supposed to do with negative indices ? Negative indices are rare but do appear sometimes.
Thank you
Topic:
Spatial Computing
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ARKit
help me please i cant remove little messed up pixels and they are getting more and more please help me!!
2025 Macbook pro no protection screen actual screen
I am trying the image tracking of ARKit on VisionPro, but there seems to be some problem when adding reference image.
Here is my code:
let images = ReferenceImage.loadReferenceImages(inGroupNamed: "photos")
print("Images: \(images)")
try await appState!.arkitSession.run([imageTracking])
It can successfully print those images, however sometimes it will print the error message like this:
ARImageTrackingRemoteService: Adding reference image <ARReferenceImage: 0x3032399e0 name="chair" physicalSize=(0.070, 0.093)> failed.
When this error message is printed, the corresponding image can not be tracked.
I do not understand why this will happen, because sometimes the image can be successfully added, but other time not, even for the same image. It makes my app not stable.
Besides, there are some other error messages, and I do not know whether it is related:
ARPredictorRemoteService <0x1042154a0>: Query queue is not running.
Execution of the command buffer was aborted due to an error during execution. Insufficient Permission (to submit GPU work from background) (00000006:kIOGPUCommandBufferCallbackErrorBackgroundExecutionNotPermitted)
I am developing an visionos app. I load a .usdz file as a Reality Entity(such as a cabbage). And I want such an effect:
When I turn on a desk lamp in real world near the Entity, the surface of the Entity will correctly respond to the light in the real world.
I want an effect like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1as01mm/shiny_disco_ball_reflecting_my_room/
I look up the api such as ImageBasedLightComponent andVirtualEnvironmentProbeComponent in RealityKit、EnvironmentLightEstimationProvider in ARKit,but I do not know how to code.
Besides, it will be better if the shadow will also respond to the light correctly.
I'm starting my journey in developing an immersive app for VisionOS. I've been making steady progress, but I've encountered a specific challenge that I haven't been able to resolve.
I created two ModelEntity objects — a sphere and a cube — and added a DragGesture to the cube. When I drag the cube over the sphere, the two collide correctly, and the collision is logged in the console. So far, everything works as expected.
However, when I try to anchor the cube to my hand, the collision stops working. It's as if the cube loses its ability to detect collisions once it's anchored.
Any guidance or clarification on this behavior would be greatly appreciated.
// ImmersiveView.swift
// estudos_vision
//
// Created by Lailan Rogerio Rodrigues Matos on 15/05/25.
//
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
import RealityKitContent
struct ImmersiveView: View {
@Environment(AppModel.self) var appModel
@State private var session: SpatialTrackingSession?
@State private var box = ModelEntity()
@State private var subs: [EventSubscription] = []
@State private var ballEntity: Entity?
var body: some View {
RealityView { content in
// Load initial content from the RealityKit scene.
if let immersiveContentEntity = try? await Entity(named: "Immersive", in: realityKitContentBundle) {
content.add(immersiveContentEntity)
}
// Create and run a spatial tracking session.
let session = SpatialTrackingSession()
let configuration = SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration(tracking: [.hand])
_ = await session.run(configuration)
self.session = session
// Create a red box.
let boxMesh = MeshResource.generateBox(size: 0.2)
let material = SimpleMaterial(color: .red, isMetallic: false)
box = ModelEntity(mesh: boxMesh, materials: [material])
box.position.y += 0.15 // Position the box slightly above the origin.
// Configure the box for user interaction and physics.
box.components.set(InputTargetComponent(allowedInputTypes: .indirect)) // Make it interactive.
box.generateCollisionShapes(recursive: false) // Generate collision shapes for physics.
box.components.set(PhysicsBodyComponent( // Add physics behavior.
massProperties: .default,
material: .default,
mode: .kinematic // Use kinematic mode so it can be moved by user interaction.
))
box.components.set(GroundingShadowComponent(castsShadow: true)) // Add a shadow.
//content.add(box) //commented out to add to hand anchor
// Create a left hand anchor and add the box as a child.
let handAnchor = AnchorEntity(.hand(.left, location: .palm), trackingMode: .continuous)
handAnchor.addChild(box)
content.add(handAnchor) // Add the hand anchor to the scene.
// Create a sphere.
let ball = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateSphere(radius: 0.15))
ball.position = [0.0, 1.5, -1.0] // Initial position of the ball.
ball.generateCollisionShapes(recursive: false) // Add collision.
ball.name = "Sphere"
content.add(ball)
ballEntity = ball
// Subscribe to collision events between the box and other entities.
let event = content.subscribe(to: CollisionEvents.Began.self, on: box) { ce in
print("Collision between \(ce.entityA.name) and \(ce.entityB.name) occurred")
//ce.entityA.removeFromParent() // removes the colliding object
//ce.entityB.removeFromParent()
}
Task {
subs.append(event)
}
}
// Add a drag gesture to the box, allowing the user to move it.
.gesture(
DragGesture()
.targetedToEntity(box) // Target the drag gesture to the box.
.onChanged({ value in
// Update the position of the box based on the drag gesture.
box.position = value.convert(value.location3D, from: .local, to: box.parent!)
})
)
}
}
#Preview(immersionStyle: .full) {
ImmersiveView()
.environment(AppModel())
}
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General
Since using Quick Look exits you from both your app and Immersive Space. Is there a way to view immersive images within Immersive Space?
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General
It's all about notifications to trigger actions from RCP's new Timeline system. From Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro I am actually starting to confuse why there was need to use Entity.applyTapForBehaviors in code to trigger content in Behaviors Component. Simply because in Behaviors Component, we have chosen OnTap to allow a "Tap Notification" to trigger our action (on a selected target object).
Then I guess by selecting OnCollision this trigger, I should write something like CollisionEvent.entityA.applyCollisionForBehaviors, which we don't have. And ofc the collision on my object won't trigger this action (because I only did things in RCP not in code).
Ignoring this post has pointed out we could use Behaviors Component's OnNotification to trigger something for now.
I found that I could still use OnTap trigger but actually put my code Entity.applyTapForBehaviors under my subscribed collision's begin event. That actually works better than OnCollision
So what is the design principles here? And how could I trigger a collision notification to let my Behaviors Component's OnCollision actually works?
I am experiencing an issue where USDZ files exported from Blender do not display textures when opened in Apple Vision Pro Quick Look. Instead of the expected materials, the model appears completely white, as if the textures are missing or not being recognized by the rendering engine.
Topic:
Spatial Computing
SubTopic:
General