Step Into Vision

This week Paolo is joined by Mike Bundy to discuss his journey into visionOS development and his involvement with the Step Into Vision community.

Mike talks about his background in software development, getting started with visionOS, and several of his projects. Mike and Paolo also unveil the story of Maestro Studio, where it came from, and where it is going.

Mike Bundy — LinkedIn

Mike Bundy — X

SideResult Software

SideResult Software — App Store

Aegis Core

Sizzly — Particle Studio

Ball Pit for Vision Pro

Go Fly A Kite

Spooky Vision

Step Into Vision

Step Into Vision — LinkedIn

Step Into Vision Podcast

Two Years of Apple Vision Pro with the Step Into Vision Community

Shared Visions Project

Shared Visions Project Updates

Shared Visions — Team Leads and Story Progress

Shared Visions Project Update — August 2026

StoryDrop

Maestro for Mac — First Look by Mike Bundy

ChapterScript — GitHub

ChapterPlayer — GitHub

DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve Cloud Collaboration

Final Cut Pro

visionOS — Apple Developer

Reality Composer Pro

RealityKit

ARKit in visionOS

Hand Tracking in visionOS

Xcode

Vision Hack

Vision Hack 2024 — Joseph Simpson’s Recap

Press Start: Game Development on Apple Platforms

Reality Composer Pro

Blender

GitHub

Swift

SwiftUI

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Paolo is joined by Jonathan Bereyziat to talk about his journey from photography, gaming, and software engineering into immersive filmmaking, building Immersa, solving immersive video distribution and demo workflows, and bringing the immersive filmmaking community together with Immersive Warsaw.

Jonathan Bereyziat

Be-Dev

Immersa

Immersa Founder Program

Immersa on LinkedIn

Immersive Warsaw

Immersive Warsaw 2026 Tickets

Palace of Culture and Science

Harvest in the Bogs — Sam Baumel

Sam Baumel

Let’s Go Fly! — Cirrus Aircraft

Let’s Go Fly! — App Store

Theater: Cinema & Events — App Store

Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive

DaVinci Resolve

Apple Immersive Video Resources: Capture, Post and Delivery

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Minecraft

Grand Theft Auto V

The Strangerhood Machinima (The Sims)

Halo Machinima (Red Vs. Blue) / Real Life Vs. the Internet Skit

Rooster Teeth

SpatialGen

Immersa

Immersa Founder Program

Jonathan on the distribution problem Immersa is solving

Jonathan on getting a Vision Pro demo ready with Immersa

Kariba Productions

Kariba Productions on Immersa

Polycount

Polycount on Immersa

ALL.com

ALL.com App

Raffles London at The OWO

NEOM

altitude.101

The Pyschology of Aspect Ratio

The Psychology of Frame Rates

MKBHD

IMAX

The Odyssey

Apple Vision Pro

Apple Immersive Video

Apple Immersive Video Resources

Explore video experiences for visionOS

Learn about Apple Immersive Video technologies

Apple FairPlay Streaming

HTTP Live Streaming

GUCCI

Encounter Dinosaurs

Paolo is joined by Roz McNulty for a fascinating discussion on clothing, fashion, and rendering cloth in 3D and immersive spaces.

You can download the Reality Composer Pro 3 project that was discussed in this episode. This tool is in Beta and seems to work best on macOS Golden Gate.

Photos of Paolo as he was experimenting on creating a pleated skirt 17 times just to get the perfect one

Flag Experiment by Paolo (Twitter): https://x.com/itspaolopv/status/2072917192690307508?s=20

Skirt Explosion Experiments (Video Attachment on Discord)

Attached Zip File

Note: If loaded in Mac OS Tahoe it falls, but it works on Mac OS Golden Gate Beta 2 and 3. There may be additional things needed to be done, will update more in a future post.

Vision ProTein: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vision-protein/id6499503487

GOOH! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gooh/id6755126563

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_transfer_illusion

Paolo and Joseph discuss their experiences attending WWDC 2026.

One More Thing: The WWDC Community Rap Lyrics
Vocals: PaoloV
Beatbox: Mike Bundy

Lights up
Cupertino’s awake and the sidewalks are humming,
The builders are coming.
Badges on chests, coffee in hand,
A thousand little futures just touched down on land.

Flighty lit up with the great migration,
Gate to gate, state to state, one destination.
Red eyes, delays, arrivals on screen,
Then Apple Park gates to CommunityKit scene.
We didn’t just arrive, we assembled the scene
WWDC26, let me tell you what I mean.

And hold up this ain’t Suno, this is PaoloV,
Mike on the beatbox, live from the community.
No full ChatGPT, just a little assist,
Just Apple Intelligence with a human wrist.

Apple said: Intelligence rebuilt from the ground,
Siri got context, App Intents got found.
Foundation Models, Core AI in the flow,
Xcode got agents saying, “Run it, let’s go.”

Design got sharper, the platforms aligned,
But the real update are the people we find.
Boots cats, code stacks, Philz in the cup,
Dub Dub week and the whole room lit up.

Saturday just started with San Pedro light,
No agenda, just stories, ideas taking flight.
try! Swift Nomikai, Japan in the room,
New friends landing and the Bay starts to bloom.

Sunday morning, Ctrl+Alt+Run,
Philz to Apple Park under California sun.
Then Step-Into-Coffee, no stage, no pitch,
Just Vision Pro builders finding their niche.

Core Coffee predictions, Bashcade at night,
Arcade lights flashing, RevenueCat bright.
AI Night, after dark, tokens in the air,
Local models, agents, devs everywhere.

CHORUS:

This is Dub Dub, this is us,
From keynote rush to shuttle bus.
CommunityKit at the center of the light,
Where the whole week found its heart each night.
Siri got smarter, Xcode got bright,
But the people made the future feel alive that night.
Step Into Vision, step in the room,
Every prototype a spark in bloom.
PV on the mic, Mike Bundy on beat,
WWDC26 brought the world to the street.

Monday hit CommunityKit came alive,
Watch parties, workshops, memories to archive.
Students, Swift, St★rs with projects on display,
Student Challenge winners showing us the way.

Beer with Swift, and a French dinner too,
macOS, iOS, and what do you do?
Apple Park glowing with the official track,
While the community kept pulling people back.

Tuesday breakfast, WWDCWomen with grace,
Thoughtful conversations, a welcoming space.
Then Step Into Vision, our show and tell call,
Filmmakers, devs, designers, room for all.

Bring a demo, bring a sketch, bring a dream half made,
Bring the messy prototype before it’s displayed.
No headset? No problem. Come see what’s new.
The future is better when we’re building it with you.

App Money Lunch Club, indie dev truth,
Pricing, paywalls, and hard earned proof.
Indie Meetup said the quiet part loud
Shipping is easy, but finding your crowd?

Apple Intelligence Automators in session,
App Intents, Siri, Shortcuts in progression.
Then The Interface, design in its prime,
Craft, decisions, stories over time.

Wednesday came with trivia and cheer,
Launched LIVE brought indie stories near.
Containers on Mac, Swift in the stack,
Make It Visible put access on track.

Accessibility isn’t polish at the end,
It’s how you make the product a really good friend.
Swift contributors at Bowlmor unwind,
Open source humans meeting offline.

Then Developer center, welcome reception glow,
Robin spoke access, helping the practice grow.
Joseph and Paolo with Vision in frame,
Daiki shared heart, James sang the flame.

Thursday Code Crawl, laptop parade,
Apple Visitor Center, new APIs made.
Philz, HEYTEA, LaTTea, Duke of Edinburgh too,
Coffee shop coding with a moving crew.

Vapor talked server-side Swift in the mix,
Bitrig Bash had builders gone ahead trading tricks.
Then LIVE near WWDC lit up the night,
James and the Breakpoints with Techtonica light.

Friday slowed down, let the week breathe,
Make Something, Ship Nothing, memories to keep.
Postcards, stickers, future self letters,
No code for a moment, just being together.

So here’s to the dreamers,
The teachers,
The coders,
The creators,
The students,
The leaders,
The late night debaters.
Designers, developers, dreamers, one and all,
The ones who showed up, answered the call.
From coffee to code, from talks to trust,
The keynote was Apple
But the community was us.

FINAL CHORUS:

This is Dub Dub, this is us,
From keynote rush to shuttle bus.
CommunityKit at the center of the light,
Where the whole week found its heart each night.
Siri got smarter, Xcode got bright,
But the people made the future feel alive that night.
Step Into Vision, step in the room,
Every prototype a spark in bloom.
PV on the mic, Mike Bundy on beat,
WWDC26 brought the world to the street.
Now back to design, back to code, back to ship,
Back to the projects that started this trip.
But keep this close when the deadlines descend:
Dub Dub is a week
but the Community is a friend.

Join us for a quick reflection on visionOS 26 and a discussion about what we hope to see at WWDC 2026.

The Step Into Vision Team

Join us for a special conversation with some of the people building the Shared Visions Project.

Mel Randall and Sheba Mayer join Paolo to talk about building and launching Arluma360.

This week Oliver joins Paolo to talk about how UX and design changes when working with Spatial Computing.

This week Paolo speaks with Steve Talkowski about his 3D art career and his journey into visionOS creation.

Part two of Episode 002 features a longer conversation with Phil Traut. Paolo and Phil discuss great UX and design across XR and Apple Vision Pro.