Chapter 2

From Traditional Applications to Spatial Workspaces with SwiftUI

If you’ve been paying attention the past few years, you’ve seen popular VR headsets released like the Meta Quest family, Valve Index, and PlayStation VR2. The common thread between all these platforms is games. Yes, there are productivity solutions, but none offer an integrated experience with thousands of polished and stress-tested applications that users run on their phones, tablets, or desktops every day.

The Apple Vision Pro and visionOS change that dynamic. The Vision Pro is just as comfortable running productivity applications from iPadOS and sharing the table with Universal applications that run on multiple platforms as it is playing a game. SwiftUI is the interface ...

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