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Apple introduced several new features and enhancements for visionOS at WWDC 2024. Here are some key highlights:
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Spatial Computing Opportunities:
- VisionOS provides incredible opportunities for creating spatial apps, leveraging the foundation of macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Developers can use familiar tools and frameworks like SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit to build spatial computing apps (Platforms State of the Union).
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Enhanced Scene Understanding:
- VisionOS now allows developers to decide if the user's hands should appear in front of or behind the content. It also includes improved scene understanding capabilities, such as detecting planes in all orientations, room anchors, and a new object tracking API (Platforms State of the Union).
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HealthKit Integration:
- VisionOS supports immersive health experiences. For example, users can enter an immersive space to reflect on their feelings and save this data to HealthKit. The platform also supports guest user features to preserve data and privacy (Get started with HealthKit in visionOS).
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Designing Great Apps:
- VisionOS is designed with people at the center, ensuring comfortable interactions. Developers are encouraged to find their app's "key moment" optimized for visionOS, like the mindfulness app's breathing flower, which provides a unique spatial experience (Design great visionOS apps).
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Game Development:
- Developers can bring iOS or iPadOS games to visionOS by using the visionOS SDK. This includes rendering to a CMTL layer or directly to a relative texture, adding stereoscopy, head tracking, and VRR to optimize performance (Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS).
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Enterprise Use Cases:
- VisionOS 1.1 supports device and user enrollment for enterprise customers, making it easier to manage Vision Pro devices using familiar device management infrastructure (What’s new in device management).
Relevant Sessions
- Platforms State of the Union
- Get started with HealthKit in visionOS
- Design great visionOS apps
- Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS
- What’s new in device management
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the new features and capabilities introduced in visionOS.
Get started with HealthKit in visionOS
Discover how to use HealthKit to create experiences that take full advantage of the spatial canvas. Learn the capabilities of HealthKit on the platform, find out how to bring an existing iPadOS app to visionOS, and explore the special considerations governing HealthKit during a Guest User session. You’ll also learn ways to use SwiftUI, Swift Charts, and Swift concurrency to craft innovative experiences with HealthKit.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Platforms State of the Union 5-Minute Recap
Watch a quick recap of the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
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
Find out how to create compelling spatial computing apps by embracing immersion, designing for eyes and hands, and taking advantage of depth, scale, and space. We’ll share several examples of great visionOS apps and explore how their designers approached creating new experiences for the platform.
What’s new in device management
Learn about the latest management capabilities for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, then discover the latest changes to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. We’ll also share updates to Activation Lock, SoftwareUpdate, and Safari management.