Alright, so we have the above visionary approach to spatial computing where you can actually touch and feel the computable things, your body is fully present in the computable space — assuming the dream comes true and it ever takes off — versus the now all-too-inevitable Vision where you don't even get to touch glass, your body is so absent that they have to make a meta human out of you. Here's hoping the latter doesn't take the wind out of the sails of the former. I'm curious to see what sorts of programming tools Apple has come up with for Vision. I'm assuming it'll be the same old Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode (now in a spatial window), but maybe there'll be some hint of novelty in Reality Composer Pro or some other accessory tooling. But I'm far, far more interested in seeing what we all can come up with.

Hopefully Swift Playgrounds lets us play around here (and one day soon just add an app to our homescreen)

Also saw something about Unity XR being available for it?

Curious if that's just support for hand tracking, head tracking, etc, or if there's anything more to it. I mean, it won't be "a new interface to Unity for authoring content spatially within Vision"

I was really surprised by the lack of incorporating physical objects into the system. Seems like augmenting reality should include augmenting actual reality, not just overlaying objects in your vision. Given the cameras it has and the processing they are capable of doing, it can obviously do it. I'm wondering what will be exposed to developers. Are we going to be able to use the apple vision pro to imbue the world with computation? Or will we be stuck with floating rectangles?

I think I'm putting on this facething when my present context is feeling dilute / void of stimulus – ie, go ahead and wipe out this current scene – but I get the "imbue" question I want my memory palace

On the "what sort of dev tools?" front, there's a bit of smoke from an AI/ML fire

VisionPro just seems to be simulating old media in a slightly more convenient form

I'm more optimistic — I think it's a new medium, being bootstrapped off the existing app ecosystem so as to avoid feeling empty on day 1. Remember how the iPhone (and Apple Watch) launched with effectively no apps?

VisionPro just seems to be simulating old media in a slightly more convenient form

If eye tracking is supported at OS level as a first class concept like cursor and touch then that would be interesting. The rest is impressive but meh.

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There's a decent amount of info on the Apple developer site, but yes it's mostly the same stuff