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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · 22d

I wonder if my Apple Vision Pro will explode if I watch Meta Connect... 🤣 #visionos #applevisionpro #spatialcomputing

Meta Connect livestream web page in the Bora Bora environment on Apple Vision Pro

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · 28d

More information here www.contxtu.al/dayahead

Contxtual | Day Ahead for Apple Vision Pro

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · 28d

Our Apple Vision Pro app is getting an important UX improvement, better display of overlapping meetings. Day Ahead provides a beautiful, glanceable overview of your calendar events for the day, so you can always see your next meeting and tap to find out more testflight.apple.com/join/Zn1fuHUp

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Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tomkrikorian.com · Sep 9

If Apple can make an iPhone Air, they can make a Vision Air 👀

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Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tomkrikorian.com · Jul 11

It was a pleasure to chat with Tim Chaten and @oliverw.bsky.social about WWDC25 and our VisionOS Professionals Survey 2025!

visionpros.fm/2025/07/10/e...

Episode 45 – WWDC 2025 and the visionOS Professionals Survey with Oliver Weidlich and Tom Krickorian

Oliver Weidlich and Tom Krickorian discuss their experiences at WWDC 2025 in Cupertino and the results of their visionOS Professionals Survey.

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jul 14

The amazing Yin got me little “Oli with Apple Vision Pro” macarons for my birthday :-D #SpatialComputing #AppleVisionPro #visionOS

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Finalist Day Planner @dayplanner.bsky.social · Jul 2

Finalist 3 is out after nine months of coding 😅 It's a daily planner that manages your calendars and reminders better than your Reminders app. I'm running a crazy launch special: get a lifetime license for $5 (five!) dollars

Screenshot of Finalist 3 running on iPhone

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Joseph Simpson @vrhermit.com · Jun 30

Step Into Vision has over 100 examples organized into some key topics.

✅ Spatial SwiftUI
✅ RealityKit Basics & Concepts
✅ System Gestures
✅ Working with App Scenes
✅ ARKit and Spatial Tracking

There's still a lot to cover, but I'm adding to this all the time.

stepinto.vision/learn-vision...

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Joseph Simpson @vrhermit.com · Jun 28

A few visionOS 26 changes unlocked a ton of app ideas I had previous set aside.

🧩 Presentations in attachment greatly expand the possibilities for 2D/3D interfaces.
🚀 Spatial Layouts open new ways to organize and present data.
🔥 Widgets and window snapping enable a level of UI persistence.

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Intopia @intopia.bsky.social · Jun 24

Want to learn about accessibility? Our refreshed Digital Accessibility Fundamentals course is available for free on the Intopia Learn platform. It provides learners with a crash course in the basics of digital accessibility.

View the course: learn.intopia.digital/courses/acce...

Intopia Learn. Digital Accessibility Fundamentals. Online, self-paced course. Learn the basics of digital accessibility. A laptop with a world icon on it.

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Wesley Hilliard @hilli.tech · Jun 19

The only thing that makes the new widgets and pinned windows appear fake in visionOS 26 is the quality of the video feed. Low light and dim rooms make the perfectly rendered objects stand out as digital objects.

Can't wait for future Vision Pros to get more lifelike passthrough.

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Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tomkrikorian.com · Jun 19

🚨 New blog post released:
Post-WWDC25 Thoughts: The Road Ahead for visionOS and the Vision Product Line

www.tabtotap.com/blog/post-ww...

Post-WWDC25 Thoughts: The Road Ahead for visionOS and the Vision Product Line — Tab To Tap

This year I was invited to attend WWDC! It was a great honor and it feels like my investment over the past two years has been recognized by Apple and the Apple community. If you’ve read my previous…

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · Jun 16

SharedDuck shows a floating duck on your Vision Pro. If you share it with a nearby user using the share button (opposite the close button underneath the space), they'll see it in exactly the same position in the room. You can both walk around it and treat it like it was a real object in the room.

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 14

And in other wearable AI tech news, my Meta Ray Bans have stopped working again… Connectivity, LED not giving the right feedback, confusing customer support (and endless loops).

oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 14

Bee.Computer: thoughts on an AI wearable before losing it after 2 days... #wearable #artificialintelligence #userexperience www.linkedin.com/pulse/beecom...

Bee.Computer: thoughts on an AI wearable before losing it after 2 days...

After a recommendation by John Allsopp (whom I respect and trust on these types of things), I purchased a Bee.Computer online to pick up when I came to the US for WWDC & AWE this week.

www.linkedin.com

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Ivan Campos @ivancampos.com · Jun 14

Foundation Models Playgrounds now contains 131 examples.

Playground categories: Chat, Summarization, Code Assistance, Language, Automation, Planning , Creative, Education, Safety, and Tools.

If there is anything you'd like to see added, let me know.

github.com/IvanCampos/F...

GitHub - IvanCampos/Foundation-Models-Playgrounds: Playground examples to demonstrate Foundation Models Framework

Playground examples to demonstrate Foundation Models Framework - IvanCampos/Foundation-Models-Playgrounds

github.com

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Gregory @dreamwieber.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ok PSA for folks on the visionOS 26 beta:

It may take a while for your photo library to update. In the interim the storage may balloon.

It took a couple of restarts for me to finally see Photos offload its storage to iCloud.

But probably good to just give it some time!

#wwdc25

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 12

Huge congrats to you and the team for running such a great event :-)

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Michael Temper @michaeltemper.bsky.social · Jun 12

It's now possible to show entities outside of a volume's scene bounds in visionOS by adjusting the clipping margins.

These entities are non-interactive and only work with volumes, but they’re still great for decorative effects. ☁

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 9

One more global catch-up!

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Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tomkrikorian.com · Jun 9

The three visionOS musketeers meeting before #wwdc25 (@AR_Ojisan, @oliverw.bsky.social )

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 6

Oh no! All the best for a quick recovery mate

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 5

Done! ✅

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Tom Krikorian ᯅ @tomkrikorian.com · Jun 5

🚨The VisionOS Professionals Survey 2025 is now available to download!

We asked developers and designers working on Apple Vision Pro to share their honest experiences with visionOS. What’s working? What’s frustrating? And how do they feel about the platform’s future?

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oliverw @oliverw.bsky.social · Jun 3

Spatial Computing has changed the way I work and I thought I'd show you some small examples of how. I usually spend a couple of hours a day in my Apple Vision Pro doing different types of tasks. You can watch the video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/oliver...
#spatialcomputing #applevisionpro

#spatialcomputing #applevisionpro #visionos #userexperience | Oliver Weidlich

Spatial Computing has changed the way I work and I thought I'd show you some small examples of how. I usually spend a couple of hours a day in my Apple Vision Pro doing different types of tasks. ...

www.linkedin.com

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