How to make visionos app

Generated on 9/6/2024

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To create a visionOS app, you can follow several strategies and best practices highlighted in the WWDC sessions:

  1. Designing for Immersion: VisionOS is designed to place people at the center of the experience, ensuring interactions are comfortable and delightful. It's important to find a "key moment" in your app that is optimized for visionOS, creating experiences that are only possible on this platform. For example, the mindfulness app uses a gentle pulsing flower to encourage focus and breathing, which is a unique experience on visionOS. Design great visionOS apps.

  2. Porting Existing Apps: If you have an existing iOS or iPadOS app, you can start by recompiling it for visionOS. This involves selecting the visionOS SDK in your build settings and addressing any compilation errors. You can then enhance the app for spatial computing by using frameworks like SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit, which are core to developing spatial apps for visionOS. Platforms State of the Union.

  3. Game Development: For games, you can start by making your iOS game compatible with visionOS and then progressively add features to enhance immersion. This includes adding a frame and immersive space, stereoscopy, and head tracking to make the game feel like a window into another world. Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS.

  4. HealthKit Integration: If your app uses HealthKit, you can easily adapt it for visionOS by ensuring it adopts the design and interaction patterns of the platform. This involves refining the user experience to surface more information and adding nuance to the health data displayed. Get started with HealthKit in visionOS.

These sessions provide a comprehensive guide to developing apps for visionOS, whether you're starting from scratch or porting an existing app.