I really love the way how you can add SwiftUI views as attachments to a RealityView on visionOS. As I am now porting my app to iOS as well, I was wondering if something like this is possible in ARView as well? I've only seen custom libraries trying to mimic UI elements so far.

I'm implementing an AR app with Image Tracking capabilities. I noticed that it takes very long for the entities I want to overlay on a detected image to show up in the video feed. When debugging using debugOptions.insert(.showAnchorOrigins), I realized that the image is actually detected very quickly, the anchor origins show up almost immediately. And I can also see that my code reacts with adding new anchors for my ModelEntities there. However, it takes ages for these ModelEntities to actually show up. Only if I move the camera a lot, they will appear after a while. What might be the reason for this behaviour? I also noticed that for the first image target, a huge amount of anchors are being created. They start from the image and go all up towards the user. This does not happen with subsequent (other) image targets.

Our app needs to scan QR codes (or a similar mechanism) to populate it with content the user wants to see. Is there any update on QR code scanning availability on this platform? I asked this before, but never got any feedback. I know that there is no way to access the camera (which is an issue in itself), but at least the system could provide an API to scan codes. (It would be also cool if we were able to use the same codes Vision Pro uses for detecting the Zeiss glasses, as long as we could create these via server-side JavaScript code.)

We are developing apps for visionOS and need the following capabilities for a consumer app: access to the main camera, to let users shoot photos and videos reading QR codes, to trigger the download of additional content So I was really happy when I noticed that visionOS 2.0 has these features. However, I was shocked when I also realized that these capabilities are restricted to enterprise customers only: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10139/ I think that Apple is shooting itself into the foot with these restrictions. I can understand that privacy is important, but these limitations restrict potential use cases for this platform drastically, even in consumer space. IMHO Apple should decide if they want to target consumers in the first place, or if they want to go the Hololens / MagicLeap route and mainly satisfy enterprise customers and their respective devs. With the current setup, Apple is risking to push devs away to other platforms where they have more freedom to create great apps.

With quite some excitement I read about visionOS 2's new feature to automatically turn regular 2D photos into spatial photos, using machine learning. It's briefly mentioned in this WWDC video: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/10166 My question is: Can developers use this feature via an API, so we can turn any image into a spatial image, even if it is not in the device photo library? We would like to download an image from our server, convert it on the visionPro on-the-fly and display it as a spatial photo.

I noticed that tracking moving images is super slow on visionOS. Although the anchor update closure is called multiple times per second, the anchor's transform seems to be updated only once in a while. Another issue might be that the SwiftUI isn't updating more often. On iOS, image tracking is pretty smooth. Is there a way to speed this up somehow on visionOS, too?

We are building an app that uses ARKit occasionally, but not always. We would like to test the non-ARKit parts in the simulator, since it offers more debugging features (e.g. SwiftUI previews or the Thread Sanitizer). However, we can't even build the app for the simulator, since the simulator SDK does not know about certain classes (e.g. "AnchorEntity"). This also means that none of the SwiftUI previews work, even if the views are not using ARKit. What is the best approach to test such an app in the simulator, without using any ARKit features?

We tried out our Unity-based AR app for the very first time under iOS 18 and noticed an immediate, repeatable crash. When run in Xcode 16, we get this error message: Assert: /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleCV3D/library/VIO/CAPI/src/SlamAnchor.cpp:37 : HasValidPose() Assert: /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleCV3D/library/VIO/CAPI/src/SlamAnchor.cpp:37 : HasValidPose() That's a blocker to us. We're using Unity 2022.3.27f1.

On iOS, Sign in with Apple will provide an e-mail address if the user is logging in for the first time. On all subsequent logins, the e-mail address will be missing. However, this can be reset by removing the app from your Apple ID. If you then try to login again, the e-mail dialog will popup again, and the app will receive this e-mail. On visionOS, however, the latter does not happen. Even if I have removed the app from my Apple ID, the e-mail dialog won't show up again. The only way to resolve this is to reset the visionOS simulator (haven't tried it on a real device).

Apple asked me today to add the compliance information for the Digital Services Act in the EU. I tried to do so, but ran into a major issue here. When I created the developer account many years ago, it was a personal account used by me as a natural person / freelancer in Germany. When I later founded my US company, I converted the existing developer account into a business account for that company. While doing this, I obtained a DUNS number which is linked to the business address in the States (California). However, it seems as if this US address never made it into App Store Connect. It still shows my personal address in Germany, which is not correct. I cannot modify it either. The address page says that I have to update it at DUNS. However, in their system, everything is ok. The problem seems to be related to the transfer of the address data between DUNS and App Store Connect. I opened up a ticket in the DUNS system, but I need to publish a new version of our app soon. So I am wondering if there is a faster way to get this resolved somehow?