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Explore advances in RealityKit

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Key Points

  • Covers the latest advancements in RealityKit designed to make apps and games more immersive and realistic than ever.
  • Covers powerful new capabilities including interactive cloth simulations, NavMesh pathfinding, mixed reality lighting, and customizable reverb meshes for enhanced spatial audio.
  • Covers visual fidelity with improved shadows, character rendering enhancements, and support for Gaussian splatting.
  • The session moves through Lighting and shadows, Navigation mesh, Cloth simulation, Performance, 3D Gaussian splats, Immersive audio.
  • Key concepts include RealityKit, NavMesh, SpotLight, SurroundingsLight, NavigationMeshResource, Reality Composer Pro, LODs, Gaussian splats.
  • Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, tvos, visionos.

Condensed Flow

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Lighting and shadows:

Focuses on RealityKit, SpotLight, SurroundingsLight.

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Navigation mesh:

Focuses on RealityKit, NavigationMeshResource, Reality Composer Pro.

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Cloth simulation:

Focuses on RealityKit.

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Performance:

Focuses on LODs, RealityKit.

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3D Gaussian splats:

Focuses on Gaussian splats, RealityKit.

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Immersive audio:

Focuses on RealityKit.

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Additional details

  • Detailed flow: Lighting and shadows -> Navigation mesh -> Cloth simulation -> Performance -> 3D Gaussian splats -> Immersive audio.
  • APIs and concepts to recognize: RealityKit, NavMesh, SpotLight, SurroundingsLight, NavigationMeshResource, Reality Composer Pro, LODs, Gaussian splats, LevelOfDetailComponent, NavigationComponent, NavigationController, BufferResource.
  • Implementation focus: RealityKit.

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