Platform: iOS18 Tech: RealityView Hi! I was wondering if RealityView now provides ways for their session to persist Anchor data in a world such that the anchor locations in one session can be saved and loaded in a another session that persists the exact same anchor positions. I know that ARWorldMap in ARKit does that, but I was not able to find a way to use it with RealityView. I think it's because RealityView has ARKit under its hood but does not expose the ARKit session info publicly to the client code. So I was wondering if there's a SwiftUI + RealityView approach that can help me to achieve a similar goal: Come back to the same location and see the object in exactly the same place. Thanks!

Hey Everyone, Happy New Year! I wanted to see if you have seen this before. I have added an attachment to the RealityView as a child on an entity that has a Billboard component set on it. I wanted to create the effect that the attachment is offset by .5 meters from center and follows the device as you move around it. IT works great until you try click a button. The attachment moves with the billboard, but the collision box around the attachment is not following it. If I position myself perfectly it works. Video Example: https://youtu.be/4d9Vx7K8MmU // // ImmersiveView.swift // Billboard Attachment // // Created by Justin Leger on 1/3/25. // import SwiftUI import RealityKit import RealityKitContent struct ImmersiveView: View { var rootEntity = Entity() var body: some View { RealityView { content, attachments in // Add the initial RealityKit content let sphereEntity = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateSphere(radius: 0.1), materials: [SimpleMaterial(color: .red, roughness: 1, isMetallic: false)]) sphereEntity.position = [0.0, 1.0, -2.0] let controlsPivotEntity = Entity() controlsPivotEntity.components[BillboardComponent.self] = .init() // Extract the attachemnt entity and disable it before its used. if let controlsViewAttachmentEntity = attachments.entity(for: PlacedThingControls.attachmentId) { controlsViewAttachmentEntity.position.z = 0.5 controlsPivotEntity.addChild(controlsViewAttachmentEntity) sphereEntity.addChild(controlsPivotEntity) } content.add(sphereEntity) } attachments: { Attachment(id: PlacedThingControls.attachmentId) { PlacedThingControls() } } } } #Preview(immersionStyle: .mixed) { ImmersiveView() .environment(AppModel()) } struct PlacedThingControls: View { static let attachmentId = "placed-thing-3D-controls" var body: some View { VStack { HStack(spacing: 0) { Button { print("🗺️🗺️🗺️ Map selected pieces") } label: { Text("\(Image(systemName: "plus.square.dashed")) Manage Mesh Maps") .fontWeight(.semibold) .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) } .padding(.leading, 20) Spacer() Button(role: .destructive) { print("🗑️🗑️🗑️ Delete selected pieces") } label: { Label { Text("Delete") } icon: { Image(systemName: "trash") } .labelStyle(.iconOnly) } .padding(.trailing, 20) } .padding(.vertical) .frame(minWidth: 320, maxWidth: 480) } .glassBackgroundEffect() } }

Hi everyone, I’m currently developing an app using Apple’s RoomPlan framework, and so far, everything is working great! However, I’d like to extend the functionality to include scanning smaller objects, such as light switches or power outlets, in addition to the walls and larger furniture that RoomPlan already supports. From what I understand, based on the documentation, RoomPlan doesn’t natively support the detection or measurement of smaller objects like these. Is that correct? If that’s the case, does anyone have suggestions or ideas on how this could be achieved? Perhaps by integrating another framework or technology alongside RoomPlan? I’d appreciate any insights or advice from those who have worked on similar use cases. Thanks in advance!

"Although Xcode generates loading methods for all Reality Composer files in your Xcode project" I do not find this to be true, sadly. Does anyone have any luck or insight on how one can build just a simple MacOS app that will import a scene from a Reality File? The documentation suggests that the simple act of bringing a .Reality File in (What about .realitycomposerpro?) will generate code, but that doesn't seem to happen. The sample code (Spaceship) does not compile for MacOS. I'd really love just the most generic template of an Xcode Project that compiles with a button that pops open a scene., Like the VisionOS default immersive project.

Hi, When I attach BillboardComponent to anchor entities, I am no longer able to retrieve the tapped entity anymore because the collision shapes of the entity are messed up due to always orienting it towards the camera. And it does not updated the collision shapes because if I try pressing everywhere that is not my model entity, I get a hit out of nowhere. I tried updating the collision shapes of the entity every frame: for child in existingPassport.mainEntity!.children { child.generateCollisionShapes(recursive: true) } However, nothing comes of it, and it is not a smart solution in the first places because it is too heavy to recreate the shapes every frame. I am using the usual AR View Controller that works when I comment out the BillboardComponent line just fine: private func setupTapRecognizer() { let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(handleTap)) arView.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer) } @objc func handleTap(_ recognizer: UITapGestureRecognizer) { print("handle tap URL 1") let location = recognizer.location(in: arView) if let entity = arView.entity(at: location) { print("handle tap URL 2") // Assuming each entity has a URL stored in a component if let urlComponent = entity.components[URLComponent.self] { webViewPresenter?.presentFullScreenWebView(url: urlComponent.url) print("handle tap URL: \(urlComponent.url)") } } } How should we tackle this issue on iOS 18? Thanks!

I’m developing an app using RealityKit and RealityView. On newer iPhones, such as the iPhone 15 Pro, Object Occlusion appears to be enabled by default, which causes 3D entities to be hidden behind real-world objects in the scene. However, I need to disable this behavior to ensure proper rendering of my 3D content. This issue does not occur on older devices like the iPhone 13, where the app works as intended. I haven’t been able to find a solution to explicitly disable object occlusion on the newer devices for RealityView. Any guidance or suggestions to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi guys, I have set size of cube is 20 cm. Then i want to transform scale with values x: 0.048, y: 1, z: 0.0.48, But strangely it reset all value to x: 1, y: 1, and z:1. Then i want to try with another decimal such as x: 1.2, y: 2, z: 1.2 the panel will automatically reset it into x: 1, y: 1, z: 1. My question is how to set transform scale that can accept decimal number ?

Hi, I added DockingRegion to my scene from Reality Composer Pro, and I am able to load up the scene, but DockingRegion is getting ignored and the scene is getting rendered with no change in AVPlayerViewController window. As it can be seen in Reality Composer Pro screenshot below, I set the width of the player to 666, and moved it to the back by 300cm, but the actual result does not reflect the position I set on Reality Composer Pro. Is there anything else I should do other than loading up the Entity and adding to RealityView? Specifically, do I have to get the DockingRegion within the usda file and somehow enable it?

Hello everyone, Since last night, the Object Capture feature in my app has stopped working. Whenever I try to use it, a blank screen is displayed instead of the expected functionality. I’ve also tested several other apps that rely on Object Capture, and they are experiencing the same issue. This makes me think it might not be a problem specific to my device or app. I’ve already tried restarting my device and ensuring all apps are up to date, but the issue persists. Does anyone have more information about this issue? If so, is there any update on when it might be resolved? Thank you in advance for your help! Best regards

Hi, every one! I'm trying to bind timeline(animation + audio) and behaviors on an entity in reality composer pro. In xcode, I need to clone this entity and use the behavior, but I found that the behaviors are not clone(send notification but not received by reality composer pro and not execute the timeline). How can I solve this problem? Thanks!

Ever since updating to Xcode 16 my AR app doesn't compile, because Xcode doesn't recognize the .rcproject files used to load the AR experiences in iOS app. The .rcproject files were authored in Reality Composer on iPadOS. The expected behavior is described in this official Apple documentation article: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/loading-entities-from-a-file How do I submit a ticket to Apple?

When using ARView of RealityKit, I can code like this let results = arView.raycast(from: point, allowing: .estimatedPlane, alignment: .any) to get the 3D position of where I tap on the plane. In iOS 18, we can use RealityView and I found that unproject(_:from:to:ontoPlane:) may implement the same function, but I don't know how to set the ontoPlane parameter. Can someone help me with some code snippets?

I have this code to make ARVR Stereo View To Be Used in VR Box Or Google Cardboard, it uses iOS 18 New RealityView but for some reason the left side showing the Entity (Box) more near to the camera than the right side which make it not identical, I wonder is this a bug and need to be fixed or what ? thanx Here is the code import SwiftUI import RealityKit struct ContentView : View { let anchor1 = AnchorEntity(.camera) let anchor2 = AnchorEntity(.camera) var body: some View { HStack (spacing: 0){ MainView(anchor: anchor1) MainView(anchor: anchor2) } .background(.black) } } struct MainView : View { @State var anchor = AnchorEntity() var body: some View { RealityView { content in content.camera = .spatialTracking let item = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: 0.25), materials: [SimpleMaterial()]) anchor.addChild(item) content.add(anchor) anchor.position.z = -1.0 anchor.orientation = .init(angle: .pi/4, axis:[0,1,1]) } } } And Here is the View

I have an issue using RealityView to show two screens of AR, while I did succeed to make it as a non AR but now my code not working. Also it is working using Storyboard and Swift with SceneKit, so why it is not working in RealityView? import SwiftUI import RealityKit struct ContentView : View { var body: some View { HStack (spacing: 0){ MainView() MainView() } .background(.black) } } struct MainView : View { @State var anchor = AnchorEntity() var body: some View { RealityView { content in let item = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: 0.2), materials: [SimpleMaterial()]) content.camera = .spatialTracking anchor.addChild(item) anchor.position = [0.0, 0.0, -1.0] anchor.orientation = .init(angle: .pi/4, axis:[0,1,1]) // Add the horizontal plane anchor to the scene content.add(anchor) } } }

I want use SwiftUI views as RealityKit entities to display AR Labels within a RealityKit scene, and the labels could be more complicated than just text and window as they might include images, dynamic texts, animations, WebViews, etc. Vision OS enables this through RealityView attachments, and there is a RealityView support on iOS 18. Tried running RealityView attachments code samples from VisionOS on iOS 18. However, the code below gives errors on iOS 18: import SwiftUI import RealityKit struct PassportRealityView: View { let qrCodeCenter: SIMD3<Float> let assetID: String var body: some View { RealityView { content, attachments in // Setup your AR content, such as markers or 3D models if let qrAnchor = try? await Entity(named: "QRAnchor") { qrAnchor.position = qrCodeCenter content.add(qrAnchor) } } attachments: { Attachment(id: "passportTextAttachment") { Text(assetID) .font(.title3) .foregroundColor(.white) .background(Color.black.opacity(0.7)) .padding(5) .cornerRadius(5) } } .frame(width: 300, height: 400) } } When I remove "attachments" keyword and the block, the errors are kind of gone. That does not help me as I want to attach SwiftUI views to Anchor Entities in RealityKit. As I understand, RealityView attachments are not supported on iOS 18. I wonder if there is any way of showing SwiftUI views as entities on iOS 18 at this point. Or am I forced to use the text meshes and 3d planes to build the UI? I checked out the RealityUI plugin, but it's too simple for my use case of building complex AR labels. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

In visionOS, ARKit is to integrate virtual and reality. However, most of the functions RealityKit can be easily implemented (except for Scene reconstruction, Room Tracking and enterprise API), so do I still need to use ARKit? Is there any difference between them?

Hi, I'm currently working on an ARKit project where I need to implement object occlusion on devices that do not have a LiDAR sensor (e.g., iPhone XR, iPhone 11). I used CoreML models like DepthAnythingV2 to create depth maps and DETRResnet50SemanticSegmentationF16P8 to to perform real-time segmentation. But these models are too heavy for devices. Much appreciated on any advice or pointers to resources.

As mentioned in https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/756736?answerId=810096022#810096022 Is there any update about the full support to WebXR AR Module, which should enable immersive-ar mode? Are the features such as DOM overlays and WebGPU bindings on the roadmap? Is it possible to capture stereoscopic video either internally or externally or via airplay for debugging purposes? Thanks

Hi folks: I've been creating .reality files out of Reality Composer for over a year. Some of the files are up to 500 mB and, prior to the last month they opened fine as AR projected experiences on even basic iPhones and iPads. Now, I think since iOS 18, a 64Mb file will open as an AR experience but files it seems from about 350MB up don't open. Files just opens a window displaying the name of the file, that it's a .reality file and the file size. But it no longer opens into either an AR or Object display of the .reality scene. Has there been a new file size limit put on .reality files that Files will open or what else is going on here. Have a client who was about to launch and experience based on the .Reality file I can no longer open. Please help.

Hello Apple Team, Is it possible to change the zoom factor, exposure, white balance and other settings, of an iOS ARKit session? I know how to do it using an AVCaptureSession, however, I can't figure out how to access the AVCaptureDeviceInput of the current AR session. Thanks PS: I'm using ARkit and RealityKit on iOS 17