I was visiting #WWDC25 pre-events last Saturday and waiting at the Apple Visitor Center for the next one. I put on the #AppleVisionPro and sculpt/doodled on #NomadSculpt. I almost fell out of my seat when I played with the exporter and discovered it recently updated to now include USDZ support!

The very first thing I did with my AVP at launch. If this didn’t work, I would have been crushed. I opened a model I crafted in ipadOS. The second thing was to open #NomadSculpt, the app used to create it. If it didn’t work, I would have returned the AVP.

#AppleVisionPro #visionOS

Now here’s that Spatial Sculpt of #GadgetHackwrench (oh yeah, she’s around 6 inches tall) on a stool right next to the game screen of #ZenlessZoneZero at the beach in Bora Bora that I will be enjoying my time in. At this scale. I game like this

The #AppleVisionPro lifestyle. Thanks #Apple

Now here’s #GadgetHackwrench next to a ruler and banana on a stool (for scale) on the beach in the Bora Bora Immersive Environment

#AppleVisionPro life

I need to take a break from the unboxing stuff because I want to get my Zenless Zone Zero gameplay urge out of the way. But before I begin, Here’s my Spatial Sculpt of Disney’s #GadgetHackwrench at scale in the Bora Bora Immersive Environment

#AppleVisionPro

Also, for someone like me, I’ve also waited long enough for this moment and it’s time for me to set the wish become reality, and then indulge. That primary indulgence is finally seeing my art feel like it’s physically connected to the Physical World at scale, or at whatever size I’m looking for

So why not “wait till it gets better?” My experience? It sorta doesn’t. New tech always introduces required muscle memory workflows and best practices. Not training in them will put me in similar straits as people I know who still haven’t figured out email, game controllers, or mice and trackpads

Speaking of Practices, I would need to identify important workarounds. All tech in my life introduces personality quirks that stymie - does it perform in sunlight, how to relocate it, how to pack/leave in seconds, going carrying case-less, and so on. I can’t figure out these things unless I have it

Speaking of Best Practices, I knew building muscle memory with Spatial inputs is best practiced ASAP. It happened with my first time with the Mac mouse in the 70s, typing lessons in the 80s, pen tablets in the 90s, etc. Now when I perform live AVP sculpting demos, people are fascinated at my speed.

Let’s talk about the 50 use cases I mentioned earlier. One of them involved best practices for the AVP - None exists, at least until they’re discovered through usage (something I was ready to do). The original iPhone was received with “That’s Expensively Unnecessary” sentiment, as with the AVP today

Nomad Sculpt not installing on the AVP was going to be a dealbreaker that would have left me returning it to Apple. I was so relieved it did. Sometime later, I went on the official Discord to thank the developer for permitting it to run on the AVP. His response was something like “What? It worked?”

My anxiety while waiting for its arrival back then was hoping two of the iPad apps I use for AR (calling it Spatial moving forward) Model content creation (Procreate and Nomad Sculpt) would run on it, even at reduced functionality. Procreate refused to install. Nomad Sculpt did!

Some of my social media feeds at the time had people posting about preordering the #AppleVisionPro without having a clue about what to do with it. In my case, I had around 50 speculative use cases based around what I was already doing on the M2 iPad Pro. Shortly after opening, 30 of them were valid.

The advanced using stuff I was doing on the iPad Pro couldn’t be done on cheaper models. I was gambling I could do similar and more with the AVP. Besides, I was making AR models that ran on all other Apple devices. Getting them to run on the AVP was the next evolutionary stage.

When Apple first announced the specs for the Apple Vision Pro, I immediately preordered in the early morning when the servers finally opened. You see, this tech had the same specs as the iPad Pro I was already heavily using for AR (now Spatial) model creation.

A few months back at an #AppleVisionPro development session at Apple I was discussing my experience and thoughts about my daily time with it to some attendees when one of them pointed out I’m now tech evangelist for it and should do something online. And so, I’ll start off with my Feb 2024 unboxing

Realized it’s Friday the 13th today. Gonna take a cue from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Finished WWDC 2025 at Apple, Bluesky account created, and now I need to catch up on sleep. For now, let’s begin with my OC, Nimette posed out in AR/Spatial