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Explore wellbeing APIs in HealthKit

Learn how to incorporate mental health and wellbeing into your app using HealthKit. There are new APIs for State of Mind, as well as for Depression Risk and Anxiety Risk. We’ll dive into principles of emotion science to cover how reflecting on feelings can be beneficial, and how State of Mind can be used to represent different types of mood and emotion.

Design interactive experiences for visionOS

Learn how you can design a compelling interactive narrative experience for Apple Vision Pro from the designers of Encounter Dinosaurs. Discover how these types of experiences differ from existing apps, media, and games, and explore how to design narratives that bring audiences into new worlds. Find out how you can create stories that adapt to any space and size, provide multiple levels of interaction to make them accessible to all, and use animation, spatial audio, and custom gestures to further immerse people in your experience.

Use CloudKit Console to monitor and optimize database activity

Discover the new observability features in CloudKit Console. Learn how to use Telemetry and Logging to troubleshoot and optimize your app. Find out how to set up alerts to monitor your application’s behavior and notifications to stay on top of the container events that are most important to you. To get the most out of this session, we recommend being familiar with CloudKit containers.

Discover RealityKit APIs for iOS, macOS and visionOS

Learn how new cross-platform APIs in RealityKit can help you build immersive apps for iOS, macOS, and visionOS. Check out the new hover effects, lights and shadows, and portal crossing features, and view them in action through real examples.

What’s new in Create ML

Explore updates to Create ML, including interactive data source previews and a new template for building object tracking models for visionOS apps. We’ll also cover important framework improvements, including new time-series forecasting and classification APIs.

What’s new in location authorization

Location authorization is turning 2.0. Learn about new recommendations and techniques to get the authorization you need, and a new system of diagnostics that can let you know when an authorization goal can’t be met.

Explore object tracking for visionOS

Find out how you can use object tracking to turn real-world objects into virtual anchors in your visionOS app. Learn how you can build spatial experiences with object tracking from start to finish. Find out how to create a reference object using machine learning in Create ML and attach content relative to your target object in Reality Composer Pro, RealityKit or ARKit APIs.

Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit

Learn how to create captivating immersive experiences with ARKit’s latest features. Explore ways to use room tracking and object tracking to further engage with your surroundings. We’ll also share how your app can react to changes in your environment’s lighting on this platform. Discover improvements in hand tracking and plane detection which can make your spatial experiences more intuitive.

Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit

Harness the power of RealityKit through the process of building a spatial drawing app. As you create an eye-catching spatial experience that integrates RealityKit with ARKit and SwiftUI, you’ll explore how resources work in RealityKit and how to use features like low-level mesh and texture APIs to achieve fast updates of the users’ brush strokes.