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Preflight window showing an AI assistant on the left side, a dual viewport of Hydra Storm and RealityKit in the center, and inspector on the right side and a list of validation items on the bottom. The model showcased is a toy plane.

We’re happy to share that Preflight, the quality gate for OpenUSD, is now in public beta! 🛫

Learn more and sign up here: preflight.reality2713.com

@elkraneo.bsky.social @reality2713.bsky.social
#OpenUSD #USDZ #HydraStorm #RealityKit

OpenUSD ohne Apple: Wer baut ein NoCode-Tool für Windows? OpenUSD ist ein offenes Format. Jeder kann es nutzen, jeder kann darauf aufbauen. Genau das ist der Witz an Open Source: Nicht ein Anbieter entscheidet, was möglich ist, sondern die Community. Mittler...

I've been researching the overlooked work that Reality Composer Pro does with open-source technologies like OpenUSD, and I'm glad this resonates. Thanks @salestech.bsky.social & @pixelpartner.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
visales.de/openusd-ohne...

uncannyuse now has schema pages for Reality Composer Pro components—showing the exact USDA block RCP writes, field-by-field with types and sparse-authoring behavior, plus annotated fixture examples. 20 components covered so far. https://uncannyuse.com/features/accessibility-component/schema

Reality Composer Pro's component inspector looks like a RealityKit editor. It isn't.
https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-inspector-components/

USD syntax highlighting extension for @zed.dev has been officially approved; you can check the source here while it propagates to the official registry 🧊🧊🧊
https://github.com/elkraneo/zed-usd

Screenshot of Deconstructed App, a Reality Composer Pro UI with a 3D scene in the center viewport showing an orange-outlined polygon mesh; left sidebar displays the scene hierarchy with a Cube item selected; bottom panel shows a grid of asset thumbnails with "UpVectorOnly_Z.usda" selected; right panel shows the asset’s Properties (name and file path) for UpVectorOnly_Z.usda

Imagine using Reality Composer Pro in light mode 😎

uncannyuse Can I use it? Apple platform compatibility for RealityKit, ARKit, Metal, and hardware-gated features.

We need a "caniuse" for RealityKit & RCP.
That's what @kahunamoore.bsky.social commented after yesterday's post, and it is such a great idea that it had to be done
uncannyuse.com

RCP exposes less than half of RealityKit's component surface.
28 of 61 types. 5 visionOS-exclusive. There are 6 brand-new components in version 26.0, but none are available in the RCP version yet. Next on the Deconstructed series. https://observablehq.com/d/4e1ffd6d2df015f9

Bindings, References and Variants https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-inspector-bindings-references-variants/

A very basic triplanar shader graph node for Reality Composer Pro https://lekraneo.gumroad.com/l/cqewo

Deconstructing Reality Composer Pro: Logbook. Things learned so far that are too half-baked for a post but valuable enough to remember. https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-logbook/

RCP transforms are persisted in the USD file as a series of xformOp. RCP also creates and stores a custom rotationEulerHint, which includes a precalculated Euler (radians) derived from the orientation quaternion. https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-inspector-basics/

The .realitycomposerpro "document" is a bundle inside an SPM package.
Not the folder you see in Finder—the actual document is Package.realitycomposerpro/, which contains metadata, with Sources/ next to it for Xcode integration. https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-document-type/

Reality Composer Pro silently rescales every primitive to 20cm bounding. USD defaults are 2m.
Deliberate choice—AR table-scale. Undocumented, but obvious in hindsight. https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-scene-navigator/

To better understand the challenges and decisions that produced Reality Composer Pro, I'm creating a clone of it: https://elkraneo.com/deconstructing-reality-composer-pro-intro/

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

One powerful collection.
Step Into Vision Office Hours EMEA, every Wednesday, at 11:00 CET.

stepinto.vision/about-office...

#AppleVisionPro
#SpatialComputing
#VisionOS
#StepIntoVision

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

#usda 1.0
(
doc = "Join us for Step Into Office Hours EMEA"
author = "Step Into"
creationTime = "Every Wednesday, at 11:00 CET"
defaultPrim = "Root"
upAxis = "Y"
metersPerUnit = 0.01
)
def Xform "Root" {
def Cube "Box" {}
}

stepinto.vision/about-office...

#AppleVisionPro

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

Adobe has a collection of USD plugins, which allow the interchange between most common 3D formats. Join us for Vision Office Hours EMEA tomorrow, Wednesday, at 11:00 CET.

stepinto.vision/about-office...

#AppleVisionPro
#SpatialComputing
#VisionOS
#StepIntoVision

Time to show how the scan actually looks!

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

Do you want to talk about novel approaches to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image? Join us for Vision Office Hours EMEA tomorrow Wednesday at 11:00 CET.

stepinto.vision/about-office...

#AppleVisionPro
#SpatialComputing
#VisionOS
#StepIntoVision

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

...the first (and possibly greatest) documentary about Apple Vision Pro and the people behind it.
Join Vision Office Hours EMEA every Wednesday at 11:00 CET.

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#AppleVisionPro
#SpatialComputing
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#StepIntoVision

"Across these stories, a shared journey emerges: years of curiosity, experimentation, and skill-building converged when Apple revealed Vision Pro."

@melissabella3.bsky.social will speak tomorrow about what happened at the initial workshop for Shared Visions...

𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝟯 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱:

🥇 @natpanferova.bsky.social on SwiftUI ScrollView
🥈 @elkraneo.bsky.social on visionOS animation
🥉 @fatbobman.com on iMessage agents

Full articles 👇

#iOS #SwiftUI #visionOS

If you would like to see how we turned TEDxBaiaMare’s photo archive into a interactive story on Apple Vision Pro, we just published a deep dive article:

roxana-nagy.com/xploratoriu-...

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#AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #visionOS #TEDx #TEDxBaiaMare

Step into Yearbook, where people come together in the Zoom call to get in the screenshot and memory for the foreseeable future; we are doing it tomorrow.
Step Into Vision Office Hours EMEA every Wednesday at 11:00 CET. Join!
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#visionOS

Deep Dive into Animation on visionOS Explore how the animation tools and rendering paths on visionOS can enhance your spatial applications. Learn how temporal cues improve user clarity and comfort while navigating spatial changes.

🎨 𝐷𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑂𝑆 by Cristian Díaz (@elkraneo.bsky.social)

Overwhelmed by visionOS animation options? Cristian demystifies all 10 animation mechanisms to help you choose the right tool for motion.

#visionOS #Animation

stepinto.vision/articles/dee...

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

Can the "slide to unlock" gesture be reinterpreted on #visionOS? Every Wednesday at 11:00 CET, step into Vision Office Hours EMEA. Join!. stepinto.vision/about-office...
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A screenshot of the community calendar in the simulator

Do you want to hang out with the best visionOS community? We have two weekly meetings for you!

@coderox.bsky.social and @elkraneo.bsky.social hosts the Wednesday meeting.

@vrhermit.com hosts the Friday meeting.

Find these and other events on our calendar

stepinto.vision/events/

"Inside The BioVault" / Episode 7 / The Mechanics Repository #applevisionpro YouTube video by Roxana Nagy

“Inside The BioVault” / Episode 7 of our series about The Green Spurt → How we built our Mechanics Repository, a collection of 50+ ways to notice, reason, and act.

youtube.com/shorts/FhmuV...
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#AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #visionOS #TheGreenSpurt

About Office Hours What is Step Into Vision Office Hours?

Would you like to discuss the compatibility of a Limited Edition iPod Sock-Style Accessory with Apple Vision Pro? If so, join us tomorrow at 11:00 CET for the Step Into Vision Office Hours EMEA.
stepinto.vision/about-office...
#AppleVisionPro
#SpatialComputing
#visionOS