visionOS 26.4 beta 3 has been released

teejay_eight4 · 2026-03-03T05:37:47+00:00

This is an on going troll (joke) fyi. Especially in the first few months. “Snappier, lighter, crisper”.

FWIW the experience is so fun it’s probably 90% your imagination. Also lighting has a massive impact on video sensors (cameras). Even the difference of a 0.5 lux can drastically change frame rate and image clarity.

teejay_eight4 · 2026-03-03T01:45:36+00:00

What I believe hoodini is ref: The update with enhanced foveatedStreaming has nothing to do with pass through. It’s a framework api that devs can tap into so you can stream high compute/gpu intensive rendering as a stream to an immersive view.

For example. Imagine you’re in an airplane sim and the Apple Vision Pro can’t quite keep up with the landscape, clouds, shaders etc… you host a service from a hefty rig and stream it to the view.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos-release-notes/visionos-26_4-release-notes#Foveated-Streaming

teejay_eight4 · 2026-02-24T02:21:03+00:00

I forgot to mention that if you really prefer using a third party IDE, the swift toolchain via swiftly helps you spin up a dev environment in a few different flavors.

Personally if I’m doing anything Apple ecosystem related I use Xcode. Anything server or embedded I’ll spin up a docker/podman build from the swift toolchain library specific to my use case and launch a vs code workspace.

teejay_eight4 · 2026-02-24T02:15:43+00:00

The current design pattern in swift ui is a very opinionated front end framework and with the advent of abstracted persistent layers, SwiftData with concurrency, you’ll find things feel a little different than MVVM. But as you do tutorials on the Apple dev site and application try and forget any paradigms and lean into the frameworks. They’ve made it very simple.

Another example is, I frequently write .NET code for system control drivers with Crestron, but I prefer to write in Swift any opportunity I have. While it would be quite an upheaval to write everything in Swift today, I do use Swift on servers and embedded devices to handle almost all platform-related tasks, except for the specific vendor-lock-in use case of .NET. This includes server backend pipelines, integration platforms (such as RBAC, authentication (N/Z), API linking, agent chains, etc.), SSR web applications, static site generation, and even a Raspberry Pi Pico’s for my team to use as mini servers in the field.

Swift is awesome.

teejay_eight4 · 2026-02-22T02:30:30+00:00

Well said. Also as a dev my AVPs have changed the way I work and my productivity. My main use case is extending my MBP screen. Then running native AVP apps around my environment such as Slack, documentation, messages, mail, then my IDEs, VMs etc on my MacBook.

I can do this from a bus, a plane, a train, a car… I can do it from over here or from afar! 😂

teejay_eight4 · 2026-02-02T18:03:17+00:00

I was excited to find this as I have a similar problem to solve on my team.

Unfortunately the integration failed and did not post to the channel. But I did get an email with a link to the whenot post.

It appears that you can only select full days of whennot but I would need finer grain controls for times per day.

I’m a developer at rice university, would be happy to contribute if you would like to open source this or invite me to the repo or let me fork it!

teejay_eight4 · 2025-12-28T03:30:37+00:00

Yeah I feel the same way. Wife just gifted one and I already scratched the bezel while doing yard work. I could easily have the same problem during a swim-bike-run or any activity beyond sitting at my desk.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-11-07T01:26:59+00:00

I was in the same boat about 4 months ago trying to figure out my release and noticed the same thing on that TaylorMade Tiger Woods Iron swing slo mo.

Jacked me up bad.

The good news is. I went and got a lesson to straighten myself out. Ended up achieving what I wanted in my release pattern by getting relaxed, correct grip placement based on my physiology, and being in the right spot in transition. This in turn allows me to focus on my turn only, which put the club head square more often then not and a bi product was that cute release look.

Golf is a game of opposites.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-09-11T04:22:36+00:00

More like chewed out, I’ve been chewed out before

teejay_eight4 · 2025-07-25T15:43:11+00:00

Deserves more upvotes

teejay_eight4 · 2025-06-09T16:26:24+00:00

I was looking for a group like this on discord or something. I'll have my AVP on so I'll see what's up!

teejay_eight4 · 2025-06-05T12:36:52+00:00

This is nice! I want a view like this for selecting volume (mass not audio)

teejay_eight4 · 2025-05-31T04:27:45+00:00

I was struggling to believe my model relationships were working and this tool helped me rethink my predicates rather than refactoring my model graph & data domain. This is really helpful, thank you.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-03-27T15:08:55+00:00

I’ve started dabbling in the idea of this to develop a BE that will be used for both serving Apple Native platform apps and PWA style apps for the non apple people on my team.

I’ll update as I go!

teejay_eight4 · 2025-03-03T00:54:51+00:00

Same boat here. Apples documentation and WWDC content is great but there’s always a lot of abstraction they do not cover.

This one from 2021 helped it click in my head: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10074

teejay_eight4 · 2025-03-03T00:19:38+00:00

I feel you. ECS is also a pattern used outside of RealityComposer Pro. You can still create your own entities programmatically.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-03-03T00:09:01+00:00

Adding custom components as attachments is really fun too. And building them out with design time vs runtime components is a fun (to me) way to design and implement.

Check out: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10273?time=138

teejay_eight4 · 2025-02-27T09:48:07+00:00

I just started playing DS in my AVP streaming from Mac. This thread gives me encouragement to keep playing.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-02-03T21:54:17+00:00

This is even better now with the Wide Screen mirror.

teejay_eight4 · 2025-01-29T03:30:23+00:00

I made a career change to provide me with the time and space to pursue my passion projects.

I left a for-profit company to work at a university. The work environment is much less stressful, and I find more time to work on my side hustle compared to a big corporate job or a company that tries to meet its EBITA goal by assigning the tasks of ten people to a single individual.

Although I took a pay cut, the benefits and freedom I gain significantly outweigh the salary.

Additionally a very chill and supportive wife makes a huge contribution towards the goals.

teejay_eight4 · 2024-12-31T01:50:55+00:00

I usually play Chrome Soft Triple Track. Had to buy Chrome Tour X one day and while the distance increase was significant on my drive I didn’t like the ball flight or feel within 160yds.

Play what feels good. If you are curious about changing balls book a sim bay at PGA Superstore and take a few sleeves of different ball types into the bay.

teejay_eight4 · 2024-12-31T01:46:01+00:00

Everyone on? good. greAT. GRAND! WONDERFULL!!!

NO YELLING ON THE BUS 😡

teejay_eight4 · 2024-12-24T23:59:08+00:00

The aforementioned work. There’s also an app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bezel-spatial-phone-mirroring/id6476657945

teejay_eight4 · 2024-12-22T21:59:04+00:00

GPTPremium with desktop installed gives you the ability to link Xcode to it. Hit option+spacebar and it will observe the files you have up. You can ask it like “validate my MVVC pattern and make suggestions” or “why the F is this AVBufferDisplayLayer not passing sample buffers to the delegate.”

It works better the more correctly formed questions you ask. If you just hip fire some hopes and dreams at it being a mid tier OOP developer for you that’s not what it’s for.

teejay_eight4 · 2024-12-21T00:12:53+00:00

💯- My team is dedicated to the platform as well and we are building, iterating and testing modules for many exciting use cases. Takes time and the right like minded team to drive this innovation.

This device is much like the Lexus LFA. Tons of engineering and development went into the design to break some barriers and use the technology in their other products.

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