How do I make an app fully immersive?

Generated on 7/31/2024

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To make an app fully immersive, you can leverage several techniques and tools presented at WWDC. Here are some key points and sessions that can help you achieve this:

  1. Immersive Space Scene Type:

    • Use the immersive space scene type in AVKit to provide customizable progressive immersion. This allows users to set their desired level of immersion using the digital crown on Apple Vision Pro.
    • Benefits include custom tint color and pass-through brightness.
    • For more details, refer to the session Enhance the immersion of media viewing in custom environments.
  2. Docking and Spatial Video:

    • Implement docking for 3D video, where the screen moves backward and enlarges, creating a more immersive experience.
    • Spatial video can expand into an immersive presentation, blending seamlessly into the real world.
    • For more information, check out the session Build compelling spatial photo and video experiences.
  3. Immersion Styles:

    • Use different immersion styles such as mix, progressive, and full to control how your app transitions from a windowed view to a fully immersive experience.
    • Customize the initial size of the portal and the supported immersion range.
    • For a deep dive, see the session Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces.
  4. Compositor Services:

    • Utilize compositor services to run your game or app as a fully immersive experience where the camera is controlled by the player's head movements.
    • This approach may require significant redesign but offers a vivid and engaging experience.
    • Learn more in the session Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS.
  5. Element Fullscreen API:

    • Use the Element Fullscreen API to take your media into an exclusive mode view, utilizing the whole display for an immersive experience.
    • This is particularly useful for spatial photos and videos.
    • For implementation details, refer to the session Optimize for the spatial web.
  6. Sound Design:

    • Incorporate meaningful auditory moments with thoughtful sound design to enhance immersion.
    • VisionOS adds reverberation based on the physical space, making interactions feel more real.
    • For more insights, see the session Design great visionOS apps.

By combining these techniques, you can create a fully immersive app that leverages the capabilities of visionOS and Apple Vision Pro to provide a rich and engaging user experience.

Enhance the immersion of media viewing in custom environments

Enhance the immersion of media viewing in custom environments

Extend your media viewing experience using Reality Composer Pro components like Docking Region, Reverb, and Virtual Environment Probe. Find out how to further enhance immersion using Reflections, Tint Surroundings Effect, SharePlay, and the Immersive Environment Picker.

Optimize for the spatial web

Optimize for the spatial web

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Build compelling spatial photo and video experiences

Build compelling spatial photo and video experiences

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Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS

Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS

Discover how to transform your iOS or iPadOS game into a uniquely visionOS experience. Increase the immersion (and fun factor!) with a 3D frame or an immersive background. And invite players further into your world by adding depth to the window with stereoscopy or head tracking.

Design great visionOS apps

Design great visionOS apps

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Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces

Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces

Discover powerful new ways to customize volumes and immersive spaces in visionOS. Learn to fine-tune how volumes resize and respond to people moving around them. Make volumes and immersive spaces interact through the power of coordinate conversions. Find out how to make your app react when people adjust immersion with the Digital Crown, and use a surrounding effect to dynamically customize the passthrough tint in your immersive space experience.

Render Metal with passthrough in visionOS

Render Metal with passthrough in visionOS

Get ready to extend your Metal experiences for visionOS. Learn best practices for integrating your rendered content with people’s physical environments with passthrough. Find out how to position rendered content to match the physical world, reduce latency with trackable anchor prediction, and more.