Oleg Frolov

Also, I increased the corner radius of the snake’s body elements. More apparent highlights on the cubes’ bevels are yet another way to raise spatial awareness.

📋 Next steps:

🔉Sound design tuning.
🏆 Game Over Screen for sharing.
🎊 A bit of visual effects.

Added a menu and sounds to my lil AR game. It’s really great that audio spatialization is coming by default in VisionOS. It helps significantly improve spatial awareness of the experience.

#swiftui #realitykit #visionos #visionpro #spatialcomputing

Made a lil attraction physics experiment using RealityKit. Runs on Apple Vision Pro.
#spatialcomputing #realitykit #visionos

Played with the 3 Newton's motion laws in RealityKit. ECS is fun!
#spatialcomputing #xr #realitykit #visionos #ecs

For a kid, the relative side of the voxels would be even bigger. It would be challenging to make a multiplayer AR game with such mechanics.

Tried 1m^3 voxels. The size is not particularly useful in AR/VR for close-range interactions. It seriously decreases spatial awareness, and it's quite tiring to move around.

Mentally, the appropriate size was the one where the offset is reachable in a single step. Which is 0.5m for me.

Took on Vision Pro. The view was stunning!

Indeed, it very calming there when there is a few tourists.

🇬🇧🗿 That day, I was heading to Stonehenge, so I decided to grab my Vision Pro and test this prototype there. Also, I took a few nice spatial photos of these lovely stones (when I arrived, it miraculously stopped raining).

Tried to use Minecraft-sized voxels in my previous RealityKit experiment. It won’t be practical for indoor use, but I can see some use cases for this size if you're designing in the field.

#spatialcomputing #visionos #realitykit #spatialdesign

Tried small voxels.
👍 Felt comfortable, compact. You don't need to move your head too much.
👎 Tap accuracy decreased with the target size, obviously.

🔊 Added a touch sound. Love how audio is spatialized by default in VisionOS, no need for plugins or extra setup.

Thanks! Sure 🙌

Prototyped a little VisionOS game based on the previous RealityKit experiment.

I plan to juice it (or lose it) and release it on the App Store. Stay tuned!

#swiftui #realitykit #visionpro #spatialcomputing

Added an emission shader to my last prototype. Looks nice too. And useful, if you're hacking around late at night!

Love how gracefully VisionOS handles body and object occlusion.

#spatialcomputing #visionos #swiftui #realitykit #spatialdesign

The interaction itself feels fun and effortless, but it requires generated voxels to be in a wireframe or ghost mode to avoid overlapping with your hand.

Made another prototype to explore how you can create a voxel with hand-tracking. When you push the main voxel, it generates “wireframe” voxels along its path.

Tools: XCode + RealityKit + SwiftUI
Device: Apple Vision Pro

#spatialcomputing #visionos #realitykit #swiftui #prototyping

It reminded me of the time when I was renting a flat in Hounslow. The furniture there was made of chrome and glass. It looked stunning in photos, but on a sunny day, living in that apartment was remarkably unpleasant for the eyes. And do not forget about the planes from Heathrow, torture for ears.

I think it's a great style for branding and promotional experiences (where visual extravagance is highly appreciated), but for day-to-day use, it's a bit overwhelming.

The main issue is the glass effects -- it looks beautiful from one specific point of view (top). Though there are infinitely many other viewpoints from which the visuals may appear less appealing or even confusing.

Thought to try the Glass UI in AR/VR. During a quick test, it became obvious that it wouldn't work well. Which is ironic, since it might be seen as something inspired by spatial UI.

Since Unreal uses a heavily customized C++ workflow built around its own reflection system and object model, reading the book wasn’t particularly practical, though it was quite educational.

It’s a good book, but as the name might suggest, it’s a broad introduction, rather than a deep dive into the programming capabilities of the language. It didn’t teach you techniques, but it gives a solid overview of its facilities. After reading it, I think I now know less about the language.

Recently, I have been working quite extensively with C++ and Unreal, so I thought it would be a good idea to learn more about the language from its creator. That is, Bjarne Stroustrup!

It was a big surprise to discover that C++ has friends. Would never have thought about this!

#cpp #programming

The idea itself is quite promising and might work in independent operating systems, but unfortunately, right now it won’t work on mainstream XR OSs since the palm-facing index pinch is reserved for calling the system menu (you can hear the kick overlapping with the Quest’s system sound).

A while ago, I made a few prototypes while exploring different navigation patterns with finger-based interactions. Thought some of these ideas would work well as a musical instrument (or as an input system that drives the MIDI communication).

Yeah, it's especially disappointing to see such interactions where people talk about how much they care about UX and all that. It's a cognitive dissonance.

Though if the narrative "fuck the system"/break expectations, it might work well (that's why brand/marketing studios use it a lot).

Added APKs of these experiments with spatial hover effects on interactive surfaces to my XR prototypes collection.

🎮 If you have Meta Quest, feel free to try it!

⬇️ GitHub -- github.com/Volorf/xr-pr...

It was a fun year!
Happy New Year 🥳

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