The best time to become an Apple developer was sixteen years ago when the iPhone was released, followed by now. The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the value of Vision Pro to developers, why they should join Vision Pro, and the main application direction.
1. Welcome to the Spatial Computing Platform
The best time to become an Apple developer was sixteen years ago when the iPhone was released, followed by now. The arrival of Apple Vision Pro ushered in the era of spatial computing and represented creators entering a new field of 3D UI.
Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games, said: "I'm pretty sure that Apple's entry into this segment will make a huge difference. He likened the birth of the Vision Pro to the early days of the computer age in the 1980s.
While spatial computing platforms have brought creators into a new three-dimensional world, Apple has already done the technical work to help developers make a smooth transition from iOS to visionOS. The development of visionOS applications will be based on frameworks such as SwiftUI, UIKit, RealityKit, ARKit, etc. Among them, UIKit is the core graphical application development framework in iOS application development, while SwiftUI is a full-platform graphical framework promoted by Apple in recent years.
It is not difficult to see that visionOS application development will rely on a strong and mature iOS application ecosystem, from design specifications to programming languages, from technical frameworks to application publishing. In other words, those who are familiar with the iOS development process will be one step ahead of others in visionOS development.
"We need to make it accessible to every developer, and developers can build their applications using familiar Apple tools like Xcode, SwiftUI, ARKit, etc., which will ensure that the platform is understandable even for developers who have never tried to build an application for a spatial computer," Sinclair explains. ”
2. The epoch-making significance of Vision Pro
Take a look directly at the introduction on Apple's official website.
1. Infinite canvases
Vision Pro is equivalent to using real space to provide people with an infinite environment, liberating people from the constraints of the screen - your documents, web pages, and windows can be spread out throughout the room, no longer limited to small screens.
VisionOS has a three-dimensional interface that frees applications from the boundaries of the display, so they can be displayed side-by-side at any scale.
Vision Pro makes users more productive, with unlimited screen real estate, access to their favorite apps, and a whole new way to multitask. With keyboard and mouse support, users can set up the perfect workspace to create a huge, private, and portable 4K display that displays incredibly clear text.
2. Panoramic entertainment experience
Judging from the 4K-level screen of the Vision pro, movies and TV series are no longer the focus, and this thing has the potential to change the way the game is played in the future. Because it's a panoramic view, it can recognize your body movements and voice in real time.
With two Ultra HD resolution displays, the Vision Pro can turn any space into a personal cinema with screens up to 100 feet wide and an advanced spatial sound system. Users can not only watch movies but also enjoy stunning three-dimensional movies.
Vision Pro also takes gamers into a whole new world, with users playing over 100 Apple Arcade games on any big screen, incredible spatial audio, and support for today's popular gamepads.
3. 3D camera
In my opinion, it's neither a photo nor a video, it's a 3D image – with the Vision Pro, the photo can be restored to life-size and can form a surround to create an "immersive" feeling – you're not looking at the photo, you're being in that environment. Allows users to capture, relive, and immerse themselves in their favorite memories with spatial audio.
In summary, infinite canvases, panoramic experiences, and 3D cameras are undoubtedly telling everyone that the future will be a world of spatial computing, which will reshape the way we communicate, collaborate, work and play.
3. Why should you settle in Vision Pro?
1. Apple's developer ecosystem
Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of Vision Pro is the ease with which iPhone and iPad developers can port their existing applications to the device's operating system, visionOS, using familiar tools and frameworks.
This is in stark contrast to the headsets of competitors such as Meta, Valve, PlayStation, and HTC, which rely heavily on virtual reality and augmented reality applications and games made by platforms like Unity or OpenXR.
Unlike other headset ecosystems, Apple promises hundreds of thousands of apps on the first day of the Vision Pro's launch, thanks to the foundation the company has laid on other platforms.
Apple will automatically convert iPad and iPhone apps into "a scalable 2D window" for the Apple Vision Pro, with no additional work required unless developers want to make some other changes.
2. Provide sufficient hardware and software capabilities for space design
Whether it is the precision design of the product required to build the Apple Vision Pro at the hardware level, various sensor systems, spatial audio systems, display screen technology, iris verification technology, as well as the M2 chip that provides computing power for this product and the R1 chip that is specially developed to eliminate the latency of virtual devices, or the new interaction mode EyeSight to build the user experience of Apple Vision Pro, The visionOS system and the early application ecological layout make this device stand out in the current market.
For developers who are eager to take the plunge, Apple encourages them to extend the functionality of their apps.
A simple port allows you to display your application as a "window" on Vision Pro, creating a floating version in mixed reality. Applications with 3D elements may render content as "Volumes" to increase depth visible from all angles, and more immersive applications can build a "Space" that occupies the user's entire field of view.
"Apple will likely prioritize apps that use the new volume and space app paradigm," said Steve Moser, iOS developer and editor-in-chief of The Tape Drive, "and I think developers should recompile their existing iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS apps as soon as possible so they can go live on the visionOS AppStore and have a chance to be featured by Apple." ”
Fourth, it is no longer just the consumer side, and begins to target the enterprise market
Although in the official application display, Vision Pro focuses on four major scenarios: video, office, games and home, and the display scenarios are mainly home scenes. In addition, sports and fitness are also one of the main application areas promoted by Apple
But recently, Apple updated the Vision Pro's developer webpage with a new content focused on "reimagining enterprise apps on the Apple Vision Pro." In this section, Apple first highlighted the use of the Vision Pro at work. After listing a series of development examples, the specific functions of Vision Pro that can be implemented in enterprise work are described in detail. Apple's move clearly emphasizes the use case of VisionPro in the enterprise, and it appears to be the first time since the release of VisionPro that Apple has emphasized its use in this area.
5. Summary
To sum up, joining the Vision Pro platform is a choice of cross-generational significance, and how to design for Vision Pro has become a new topic.
原文地址：【Vicky Design Studio】
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