Looked At Clouds From Both Sides

Stealing the line from Joni Mitchell, this weekend Gregory Weiber aka Dreamweiber published a quick Reality Composer Pro Shader Graph tutorial on creating clouds, procedurally created with subtle movement. I look a quick look this afternoon, and hope to see it attached to a sphere on the inside for a skybox (both sides). I love seeing Shader Graph content as currently they are not well documented in the visionOS world.

Check out the tutorial here: Happy Clouds on Apple Vision Pro: Demystifying Shader Graph Materials in Reality Composer Pro

Carina D1: PixMXR has remixed their charging stand for Vision Pro

Last week I saw and instantly ordered the new Carina D1 Charging Dock for Apple Vision Pro on Amazon. It is much more compact than my Apple Travel Case, which I've been using to move between rooms. The bonus for me is that it includes a 65 watt charger brick and the battery charges as it rests in the dock.

Carina D1 Charging Dock for Apple Vision Pro

Starry Skies

Dwight Benigus aka Dwight the Maker published a quick tutorial on creating a realistic star field with Reality Composer Pro using Particle Emitters. He demos how to set up the emitters to create the stars and use RealityKit code to pause the motion, since stars unlike the clouds above don't move preceptively.

VisionOs Development: A Clever Trick to make a Stars in Space Immersive Scene in Just 7 minutesSafari Now Supports Embedding Spatial Photos.

Testing Spatial Photo and Video Embeds

Thanks this time to Micheal Verdi's blog post TESTING SPATIAL PHOTO AND VIDEO EMBEDS he's demoed how Safari can support Spatial Photos and Spatial Videos, shot on iPhone 15/16 Pro, and can be viewed on the Vision Pro. With a couple of clicks, users can select a photo or video on your blog post and choose "View Spatial Photo" for example.
Testing Spatial Photo and Video Embeds

I took it for a spin myself on my Wordpress site. You upload the HEIC photo and Wordpress will embed the image with a JPEG preview. I did have to surround the image with a "<picture>" tag in code to get it to work.</picture>

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