According to a recent Apple press release, some developers are reacting with an “audible gasp” when first using the company’s upcoming Vision Pro headset. ZDNet reports: Michael Simmons, who’s led the team behind popular productivity apps Fantastical and Cardhop described his experience as “like seeing Fantastical for the first time. It felt like I was part of the app.” By the time his test session was over, the big takeaway was that “Experiencing spatial computing not only validated the designs we’d been thinking about — it helped us start thinking not just about left to right or up and down but beyond borders at all.” “The first time you see your own app running for real, that’s when you get the audible gasp,” adds David Smith, podcaster and developer of Widgetsmith.
“It instantly got me thinking about how 3D offerings and visuals could come forward in our experiences,” says Chris Delbuck, principal design technologist at Slack, in the Apple press release. Delbuck had first planned to test the iPadOS version of Slack on the Vision Pro, only to realize how much more potential there was in upgrading the UX to suit VisionOS’ added layer of depth.