Hello! I am relatively new to dev for Apple Vision Pro, however I have owned one since launch and love it. When I heard that we were going to be able to preview real-time, 3D models from the Mac I couldn’t believe it! This is one of my major workflows and I have been using 3rd party workarounds (that don’t work well).
My question is, is there any word on supported 3D modeling apps like Blender or Cinema 4D? Or will there be a way to implement this preview feature with any app via a protocol? Any documentation would be really helpfu!
Thank you, and continue the great additions to Apple Vision Pro!
Hello there! Great that you are trying out the Vision Pro.
There is actually a new framework for doing exactly what you describe called "Spatial Preview". It is integrated in macOS27 in Preview.
So if you have a .usdz file from one of those apps, you can open it in Preview in the beta and share with your Vision Pro! Also as a slight aside, if you have some 3D model exported from one of those apps, Preview has some great 3D editing capabilities now.
More info on that in the Spatial Preview Framework overview
In there you can see an example of it integrated to Cinema4D. Blender or other 3D applications would be other great candidates for using this to bridge to the Vision Pro.
In that link you should find more explanation and example code for doing so. Let us know if you have more questions!