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For developers, several important topics were covered at WWDC that can help enhance their development workflows and optimize their applications. Here are some key takeaways from various sessions:

  1. Xcode Essentials:

    • Editing and Debugging: Tips for making edits faster, using breakpoints to debug tricky situations, and leveraging the console for insights.
    • Testing: Importance of testing to catch bugs before they ship, using the test report to track test history, and distributing apps to beta testers via TestFlight.
    • Feedback and Iteration: Utilizing the feedback tab to gather user feedback and incorporating it into development sprints.
    • Organizer: Reviewing feedback and addressing quality issues using the Organizer.
    • Xcode essentials (35:41)
  2. Optimize Your 3D Assets for Spatial Computing:

    • Performance Optimization: Keeping polygon count low, optimizing assets based on screen size, and using unlit materials and baked textures to save memory.
    • Texture Management: Efficient use of texture memory and compression techniques.
    • Environment Setup: Setting up skydomes and using image-based lighting efficiently.
    • Optimize your 3D assets for spatial computing (00:52)
  3. Build Immersive Web Experiences with WebXR:

    • WebXR Integration: Using frameworks like Three.js, Babylon.js, and A-Frame to get started with WebXR.
    • Testing and Debugging: Utilizing the simulator to ensure WebXR projects work with visionOS and transient pointer inputs.
    • User Safety and Privacy: Ensuring user safety and privacy throughout the WebXR session lifecycle.
    • Build immersive web experiences with WebXR (07:27)
  4. Break into the RealityKit Debugger:

    • Debugging Tools: Using the RealityKit debugger to track down and fix issues in entity hierarchies and components.
    • Custom Visualizations: Adding visualizations and custom inspectors to improve the debugging experience.
    • Break into the RealityKit debugger (22:40)
  5. What’s New in USD and MaterialX:

    • Creative Tooling: Leveraging USD and MaterialX for creating high-fidelity 3D content and improving compatibility and performance.
    • What’s new in USD and MaterialX (08:56)

These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of tools and techniques that can significantly enhance a developer's productivity and the performance of their applications.

Break into the RealityKit debugger

Break into the RealityKit debugger

Meet the RealityKit debugger and discover how this new tool lets you inspect the entity hierarchy of spatial apps, debug rogue transformations, find missing entities, and detect which parts of your code are causing problems for your systems.

Build immersive web experiences with WebXR

Build immersive web experiences with WebXR

Discover how WebXR empowers you to add fully immersive experiences to your website in visionOS. Find out how to build WebXR experiences that take full advantage of the input capabilities of visionOS, and learn how you can use Simulator to test WebXR experiences on macOS.

What’s new in USD and MaterialX

What’s new in USD and MaterialX

Explore updates to Universal Scene Description and MaterialX support on Apple platforms. Discover how these technologies provide a foundation for 3D content creation and delivery, and learn how they can help streamline your workflows for creating great spatial experiences. Learn about USD and MaterialX support in RealityKit and Storm, advancements in our system-provided tooling, and more.

Optimize your 3D assets for spatial computing

Optimize your 3D assets for spatial computing

Dive into an end-to-end workflow for optimized 3D asset creation. Discover best practices for optimizing meshes, materials, and textures in your digital content creation tool. Learn how to harness shader graph, baking, and material instances to enhance your 3D scene while optimizing performance. Take advantage of native tools to work more effectively with your assets and improve your app’s performance.

Xcode essentials

Xcode essentials

Edit, debug, commit, repeat. Explore the suite of tools in Xcode that help you iterate quickly when developing apps. Discover tips and tricks to help optimize and boost your development workflow.