New Writers and Announcements

This week, Federico and John spend time with the visionOS simulator and consider the design of the Apple Vision Pro system apps and what to expect from third-party developers.

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Announcements

• Expanding the MacStories Team
  • Niléane
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      • Three Ways to Use BetterTouchTool to Enhance Window Management with a Trackpad
      • Customizing App Icons on a Mac in 2023
  • Johnathan
    • Recent Stories:
      • A Portable HomeKit Camera Plus a Grab Bag of Tips
      • Using My iPhone as a ‘TV Sidekick’ to Improve My Viewing Experience
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Apple Vision Pro Apps

• A selection of stories from MacStories past Apple Vision Pro coverage:
  • Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing
  • AppStories, Episode 335 – Federico’s Experience with Apple Vision Pro
  • Apple Announces visionOS App Evaluation Process, Labs, and Developer Kits
  • Unity Launches PolySpatial Beta Program for visionOS Developers
  • David Smith on Adapting Widgetsmith’s Weather Features to visionOS
  • Developers’ Early Experiments with visionOS
  • Apple Releases visionOS SDK and Developer Tools

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