More Than Just Code podcast - iOS, visionOS and Swift development, news and advice · Tim Mitra, Jaime Lopez Jr, Mark Rubin

Two Years of Apple Vision Pro with the Step Into Vision Community

·1 hr 41 min·5 clips

Tim says 20 minutes with Vision Pro changed his view after a layoff and a skeptical start.

1. More Than Just Code podcast rebroadcasts the Step Into Vision community’s second-anniversary event for the Apple Vision Pro launch day. 2. The event features Step Into Vision host Joseph, plus guests including Raven Zachary, Mike Bundy, Rose, Justin, Paolo Villamel, Juan, Tim, Alm, Matthias, Phil, Jeremy, Joy, Dylan, and Mike, all speaking from their own launch-day and building experiences. 3. The episode asks what people have done with Vision Pro over the last two years, from launch-day pickups to current apps and future plans. 4. Joseph says Step Into Vision includes example code, labs, articles, guides, newsletters, weekly office hours on Wednesday and Friday, and a private invite-only Discord. 5. He also explains Shared Visions, a community-built documentary about Apple Vision Pro that uses multiple media formats supported by the device. 6. Raven Zachary describes VisionDevCamp at Santa Clara University, where 125 people hacked over a weekend after launch. 7. Raven says he runs Raven.Vision, a data and news aggregator for the Vision platform that collects app releases, press announcements, and community news. 8. He notes that Apple does not provide a Vision OS “What’s New?” page, which is why he built scripts to harvest updates from across the ecosystem. 9. Another speaker says LoxTech bought five Vision Pros, shipped them to a president’s house in Chicago, and triggered a 4.5-hour drive from St. Louis to pick one up. 10. That same speaker lists launch-day apps such as Cone of Shame and Graph Grid, then names TimeCube, Persona Mirror, and Lexicon as later projects. 11. Mike Bundy says he has built on the platform since launch day, focusing on RealityKit and releasing Sizzly Particle Studio, a ball-pit game, and Aegis Core. 12. He also mentions a Halloween app made with Matthew Spendlove and says he is known for disliking Reality Composer Pro and Blender. 13. Rose says she was one of the first Canadians to get a Vision Pro, calling in at 5 a.m. from New York City on the first day Canada allowed orders. 14. Rose says her main goal is to put apparel into Apple Vision Pro and that she helped start the Vancouver Spatials users group in Vancouver, Canada. 15. Justin says Southwest has been using the platform for scenario modeling and pre-visualization tools, while also building a Blender-to-Vision Pro pipeline for real-time streaming. 16. Paolo Villamel says he fixed his launch-day game on the same day because he had an actual device to test on, then built community events and the choral project Lalo with spatial audio and Blackmagic gear. 17. Tim says he went from skepticism after a podcast with Daniel Steinberg to being blown away in about 20 minutes at Apple’s developer lab in Cupertino. 18. He says the community has kept him engaged through talks, hackathons, late-night conversations, and work on a compact spatial camera that blends spatial rendering with computational photography. 19. The tone is conversational, community-led, and packed with first-person launch stories and app-building details. 20. Listeners who follow Vision Pro development, launch-day stories, and community tooling will get the most from it. 21. Listeners looking for a tightly edited single-topic interview may skip it.

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A candid Vision Pro community check-in with builder detail and a loose, candid flow.

On February 2nd, the Step Into Vision community gathered to mark the second anniversary of Apple Vision Pro launch day, and this rebroadcast plays like a wide community check-in.

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Hear how Vision Pro owners, builders, and one returnee talk after two years.

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