How to make visionos app
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To create a visionOS app, you can follow several strategies and best practices highlighted in the WWDC sessions:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
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 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.