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📣 PaulHoule

How to get ready to develop for Apple Vision?


Persona A: (Myself) Experienced software developer who knows the math for 3-d geometry, optics and such and can work the problems but has never developed with anything like Unity. Frequently one of the first if not the first to be out with a demo with a new technology. Expects a hardware and software budget of about $5k including the headset and an M2 mac.

Makes inkjet prints of photographs, art reproductions and such. Would like to put a QR code next to a print that would be linked to an AR and a VR experience. For AR additional information would be projected on the wall next to the print, but I'd also like to invite the user to visit a "land", for instance, an art gallery where they can view that art and related art.

Thinks it is important that such an experience can also be experienced on a mobile phone or desktop computer.

Persona B: Owner of several Thai restaurants in a small city. Master of SEO and social media marketing, dominates the SERPs for his business area in his town and has thought a lot about his relationship with food delivery services and such. Spends $100 a day for an ad in the newspaper, could be sold on a $30,000 project (done by a local shop that makes mobile apps and web sites, maybe even Persona A) based on some combination of the business case and appeal to vanity.

Imagines a project similar to Persona A's but is focused towards building a brand or facilitating commerce.

Persona C: Maybe Persona B doesn't have the resources to succeed at this or decides it isn't worth it. Persona C is a similar person but in a larger organization with a budget 10x-100x larger. Imagine somebody doing marketing for Taco Bell.

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What does it take to create this kind of experience? How does somebody prepare now to be delivering this kind of experience in 6 months to 1 year?


  👤 danjl Accepted Answer ✓
Forget about unity and start playing with swift, swiftui and reality kit. It's going to take a couple years for everyone to figure out what kind of applications succeed in this new spatial design world.