I've created a minimal iOS RealityKit/ARKit app with only this view controller:
import UIKit
import RealityKit
import ARKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
var arView: ARView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
arView = ARView(frame: view.bounds, cameraMode: .nonAR, automaticallyConfigureSession: true)
arView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
view.addSubview(arView)
}
}
When I run this app in the iOS 18.1 simulator using Xcode 16.1 beta 2 (16B5014f), RealityKit logs the warnings included below to the console.
I see similar warnings on the device, running iOS 18.0.
Should I be concerned about any of these warnings?
Please let me know if I should submit feedback reporting this issue.
Thank you.
Could not locate file 'default-binaryarchive.metallib' in bundle. Registering library (/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/iOS_22B5045f/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS 18.1.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreRE.framework/default.metallib) that already exists in shader manager. Library will be overwritten. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/suFeatheringCreateMergedOcclusionMask.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arKitPassthrough.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arSegmentationComposite.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute0.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute1.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute2.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute3.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute4.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute5.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute6.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute7.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute8.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute9.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute10.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute11.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute12.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. ... Compiler failed to build request makeRenderPipelineState failed [reading from a rendertarget is not supported]. Pipeline for technique meshShadowCasterProgrammableBlending failed compilation!
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My app uses RealityKit with an arView with World tracking and a scene construction mesh. Working well.
As I understand it, the default camera selection using ARIkit, is ultra wide camera. However, in the camera app, there is a 0.5 option to increase the field of view further.
Is there any way to enable this 0.5x option using code? Or any control over FOV using RealityKit and a mesh?
Thanks!
I am working on a RealityView on iOS 18 that needs to render objects farther away than 1,000 meters. My app is used outside in open areas. I am using RealityView with content.camera = .spatialTracking and I have turned off occlusion, collisions, and plane detection with a simple scene understanding like this.
let configuration = SpatialTrackingSession.Configuration(
tracking: [.camera],
sceneUnderstanding: [], //We don't want occlusions, collisions, etc
camera: .back)
let session = SpatialTrackingSession()
if let unavailable = await session.run(configuration) {
print("unavailable \(unavailable)")
}
Is this possible with spatialTracking with RealityView or with ARView?
I have my RealityView working on visionOS inside an ImmersiveSpace. On visionOS I don't have the camera as a passthrough, it is virtual scene and it has wold tracking set up via the WorldTrackingProvider and I can render objects father away than 1000 meters. I would like to do the same thing on iOS. I don't need to have the camera pass through, but I do need to have the world tracking.
I see that PerspectiveCameraComponent lets me set the near and far clipping planes, but I don't see how I can use that camera with world tracking.
I have various USDZ files in my visionOS app. Loading the USDZ files works quite well. I only have problems with the positioning of the 3D model. For example, I have a USDZ file that is displayed directly above me. I can't move the model or perform any other actions on it. If I sit on a chair or stand up again, the 3D model automatically moves with me. This is my source code for loading the USDZ files:
struct ImmersiveView: View {
@State var modelName: String
@State private var loadedModel = Entity()
var body: some View {
RealityView { content in
if let usdModel = try? await Entity(named: modelName) {
print("====> \(modelName) : \(usdModel) <====")
let bounds = usdModel.visualBounds(relativeTo: nil).extents
usdModel.scale = SIMD3<Float>(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
usdModel.position = SIMD3<Float>(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
usdModel.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateBox(size: bounds)]))
usdModel.components.set(HoverEffectComponent())
usdModel.components.set(InputTargetComponent())
loadedModel = usdModel
content.add(usdModel)
}
}
}
}
I only want the 3D models from the USDZ files to be displayed later, and later on, to be able to move them via gestures. Moving the models is step 2. First, I need to make sure the models are displayed correctly. What have I forgotten or done wrong?
Using Reality Composer Pro 2.0, I created a simple shader graph that displays a texture on an unlit surface:
On visionOS 2 beta, I can successfully use ShaderGraphMaterial(named:from:in:) to load that shader graph material and assign it to a model entity.
However, on visionOS 1.2 and earlier, either in Simulator or on the device, ShaderGraphMaterial(named:from:in:) fails and I see the following logged to the console:
If, using Reality Composer Pro 1.0, I experimentally open the same project and delete and recreate exactly the same nodes above, then ShaderGraphMaterial(named:from:in:) works as expected on visionOS 1.2.
Is it a known issue that Reality Composer 2 can't be used with visionOS 1?
Is this intentional behavior?
I've submitted feedback as FB14828873, including a sample project and repro steps.
If possible, I would appreciate guidance from an Apple engineer, like "This is a known issue for [list of node types]" or "Reality Composer Pro 2 is not supported for visionOS 1 development, please refer to [documentation]" or "We recommend [workaround]."
Thank you.
Hi I have setup animation using timeline in Reality Composer Pro like below
This get triggered by a notification posts from the code.Once this time line triggered, I want to repeat this 2 animations in the timeline unitll user takes the next action. How can I make these repeat forever?
I have an app which have an Immersive Space view and it needs the user to have a button in the bottom which have a fixed place in front of the user head like a dashboard in game or so but when the user get too close to any3d object in the view it could cover the button and make it inaccessible and it mainly would prevent the app for being approved like that in appstoreconnect I was working before on SceneKit and there was something like camera view Znear and Zfar which decide when to hide the 3d model if it comes too close or gets too far and I wonder if there is something like that in realityView / RealityKit 4.
Here is My Code and the screenshots follows
import SwiftUI
import RealityKit
struct ContentView: View {
@State var myHead: Entity = {
let headAnchor = AnchorEntity(.head)
headAnchor.position = [-0.02, -0.023, -0.24]
return headAnchor
}()
@State var clicked = false
var body: some View {
RealityView { content, attachments in
// create a 3d box
let mainBox = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateBox(size: [0.1, 0.1, 0.1]))
mainBox.position = [0, 1.6, -0.3]
content.add(mainBox)
content.add(myHead)
guard let attachmentEntity = attachments.entity(for: "Dashboard") else {return}
myHead.addChild(attachmentEntity)
}
attachments: {
// SwiftUI Inside Immersivre View
Attachment(id: "Dashboard") {
VStack {
Spacer()
.frame(height: 300)
Button(action: {
goClicked()
}) {
Text(clicked ? "⏸️" : "▶️")
.frame(maxWidth: 48, maxHeight: 48, alignment: .center)
.font(.extraLargeTitle)
}
.buttonStyle(.plain)
}
}
}
}
func goClicked() {
clicked.toggle()
}
}
If I import a USDZ model with blendMode set to alpha, occlusion does not work on iPhone with iOS 18. How should transparent materials and occlusion be properly used in the new RealityKit? Additionally, new artifacts have appeared when working with transparent objects overlapping each other. The transparency results do not blend but rather parts of the model just not rendering.
Apple's own USDZ files from their website does not display properly both in OPReview and in Keynote when imported. It displays properly, however, in Reality Converter bit with this error:
"Invalid USD shader node in USD file
Shader nodes must have “id” as the implementationSource, with id values that begin with “Usd”. Also, shader inputs with connections must each have a single, valid connection source."
I tried importing other models from external sources and they work without any issue at all.
Is there any potential fix or workaround this?
Thanks in advance.
Hello all,
I am building for visionOS with another engineer and using Reality Composer Pro to validate usd files.
The starting position of my animated usdz, its position when it's first loaded, is not the same as the first frame of the animation on the usdz file
For testing, I am using the AR Quick Look asset 'toy_biplane_idle.usdz' which demonstrates the same 'error' we're currently getting with our own usdz files.
When the usdz is loaded, it is on the ground plane -
But when the aniamtion is played, the plane 'snaps' to the position of the first frame of the animation -
This 'snapping' behavior is giving us problems. We want the user ot see this plane in its static 'load' position with the option to play the animation. But we dont want it to snap when the user presses play
Is it possible to load the .usdz in the position specified by the first frame of the animation? What is the best way to fix this issue.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am trying to use PhotogrammetrySample input sequence according to the WWDC video.
I modified only the following code in the sample:
var images = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: captureFolderManager.imagesFolder,
includingPropertiesForKeys: nil,
options: .skipsHiddenFiles)
let inputSequence = images.lazy.compactMap { file in
return self.loadSampleAndMask(file: file)
}
// Next line causes the exception
photogrammetrySession = try PhotogrammetrySession(
input: inputSequence,
configuration: configuration)
private func loadSampleAndMask(file: URL) -> PhotogrammetrySample? {
do {
var sample = try PhotogrammetrySample(contentsOf: file)
return sample
} catch {
return nil
}
}
I am getting following runtime error:
Thread 1: EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x240d88904)
I'm building an iOS/iPadOS app for iOS 18+ using the new RealityView in SwiftUI. (I may add visionOS, but I'm not focusing on it right now.) The 3D scene I'm rendering is fairly simple (just a few dozen vertices and a couple of textures), and I'd like to render it at 120fps on ProMotion devices if possible. I tried setting CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone to true in the info plist, but it had no effect. The frame rate in the GPU Report in Xcode stays capped at 60fps, and the gauge even tops out at 60.
My question is kind of the opposite of this post, which asks how to limit the frame rate of a RealityView.
I'm on Xcode 16 beta 5 on macOS Sonoma and iOS 18.0 beta 6 on my iPhone 15 Pro.
Hi, I'm trying to understand how I can get 3- or 4-channel per-vertex data into the Graph Editor.
From my tests, it seems that:
the "Geometric Property" node does not give access to 4-channel data,
"Geometric Property (vector3)" does not give me access to custom properties besides the ones defined in MaterialX core
the "Texture Coordinates" node has a vector4f mode (yay!), but according to MaterialX spec, texcoords must have 2 or 3 channels, and I can't get 4-channel data to show up there either.
My assumption so far is that I must be missing some "magic" – for example, do the primvars in a file have to be in a specific order, independent of their names? Or do their names matter? (E.g. convention would be primars:st and primvars:st1 and so on)
Unfortunately the forum doesn't allow me to attach any USDZ or ZIP files or GDrive links; if there's a way to share a test file I'm happy to do so!
I'm using RealityKit for a scene with many static and dynamic ModelEntitys simulating physics. When all the entities have simple collision generated from .generateCollisionShapes I don't see any issues, but for some entities I need much more complex and accurate collision. For this I've been using ShapeResource.generateStaticMesh with the mesh's data (2769 positions, 16272 face indices in this case), which works exactly as desired with a low entity count. However once there are 600+ dynamic entities introducing even one static entity with complex collision will reliably trigger a crash when colliding with one of the dynamic entities (not necessarily on first contact, but inevitably after multiple collisions).
If I arbitrarily limit the number of entities to a max of around 500 it seems to prevent the issue from happening, though the likelihood seems to increase with the number of entities so there may be a low probability of it triggering even at 500 entities that I haven't hit while testing.
If physx imposes some kind of entity or collision face/shape limit or something like that I'd at least like to know exactly what it is, but ideally there's a way to work around this. Right now my "fix" is just arbitrarily restricting the entity count in a way that limits what my app can do.
The crash triggers inside
0x00000001a6790dfc in physx::PxcDiscreteNarrowPhasePCM(physx::PxcNpThreadContext&, physx::PxcNpWorkUnit const&, physx::Gu::Cache&, physx::PxsContactManagerOutput&) ()
which looks like this (crash line has an -> arrow at the bottom)
CoreRE`physx::PxcDiscreteNarrowPhasePCM:
...
0x1a6790df0 <+668>: mov x1, x24
0x1a6790df4 <+672>: bl 0x1a67913d8 ; physx::PxcNpCacheStreamPair::reserve(unsigned int)
0x1a6790df8 <+676>: ldrb w8, [x23]
-> 0x1a6790dfc <+680>: str w8, [x0, #0x20]
Hi everyone,
I'm developing an ARKit app using RealityKit and encountering an issue where a video displayed on a 3D plane shows up as a pink screen instead of the actual video content.
Here's a simplified version of my setup:
func createVideoScreen(video: AVPlayerItem, canvasWidth: Float, canvasHeight: Float, aspectRatio: Float, fitsWidth: Bool = true) -> ModelEntity {
let width = (fitsWidth) ? canvasWidth : canvasHeight * aspectRatio
let height = (fitsWidth) ? canvasWidth * (1/aspectRatio) : canvasHeight
let screenPlane = MeshResource.generatePlane(width: width, depth: height)
let videoMaterial: Material = createVideoMaterial(videoItem: video)
let videoScreenModel = ModelEntity(mesh: screenPlane, materials: [videoMaterial])
return videoScreenModel
}
func createVideoMaterial(videoItem: AVPlayerItem) -> VideoMaterial {
let player = AVPlayer(playerItem: videoItem)
let videoMaterial = VideoMaterial(avPlayer: player)
player.play()
return videoMaterial
}
Despite following the standard process, the video plane renders pink. Has anyone encountered this before, or does anyone know what might be causing it?
Thanks in advance!
Summary:
I’m working on a VisionOS project where I need to dynamically load a .bundle file containing RealityKit content from the app’s Application Support directory. The .bundle is saved to disk after being downloaded or retrieved as an On-Demand Resource (ODR).
Sample project with the issue:
Github repo. Play the target test-odr to use with the local bundle and have the crash.
Overall problem:
Setup: Add a .bundle named RealityKitContent_RealityKitContent.bundle to the app’s resources. This bundle contains a Reality file with two USDA,: “Immersive” and “Scene”.
Save to Disk: save the bundle to the Application Support directory, ensuring that the file is correctly copied and saved.
Load the Bundle: load the bundle from the saved URL using Bundle(url: bundleURL) to initialize the Bundle object.
Load Entity from Bundle: load a specific entity (“Scene”) from the bundle. When trying to load the entity using let storedEntity = try await Entity(named: "Scene", in: bundle), the app crashes with an EXC_BREAKPOINT error.
ContentsOf Method Issue: If I use the Entity.load(contentsOf:realityFileURL, withName: entityName) method, it always loads the first root entity found (in this case, “Immersive”) rather than “Scene”, even when specifying the entity name. This is why I want to use the Bundle to load entities by name more precisely.
Issue:
The crash consistently occurs on the Entity(named: "Scene", in: bundle) line. I have verified that the bundle exists and is accessible at the specified path and that it contains the expected .reality file with multiple entities (“Immersive” and “Scene”). The error code I get is EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x1d135d4d0).
What I’ve Tried:
• Ensured the bundle is properly saved and accessible.
• Checked that the bundle is initialized correctly from the URL.
• Tested loading the entity using the contentsOf method, which works fine but always loads the “Immersive” entity, ignoring the specified name. Hence, I want to use the Bundle-based approach to load multiple USDA entities selectively.
Question:
Has anyone faced a similar issue or knows why loading entities using Entity(named:in:) from a disk-based bundle causes this crash? Any advice on how to debug or resolve this, especially for managing multiple root entities in a .reality file, would be greatly appreciated.
I am having a difficult time to create particle systems in Reality Composer Pro (visionOS beta 3). They tend to start to flicker and all particles disappear and reappear in semi-random intervals.
I can clearly see that happening with one effect that I put inside a small box consisting of 4 transparent walls that has a solid floor. When I change the view angle the particle system starts to flicker when viewed from below its emission height.
I tried all combinations of particle rendering: billboard->free, additive etc and it does not change anything. I am using the default particle image.
Any help appreciated
I'm trying to ray-march an SDF inside a RealityKit surface shader. For the SDF primitive to correctly render with other primitives, the depth of the fragment needs to be set according to the ray-surface intersection point. Is there a way to do that within a RealityKit surface shader? It seems the only values I can set are within surface::surface_properties.
If not, can an SDF still be rendered in RealityKit using ray-marching?
In my Metal-based app, I ray-march a 3D texture. I'd like to use RealityKit instead of my own code. I see there is a LowLevelTexture (beta) where I could specify a 3D texture. However on the Metal side, there doesn't seem to be any way to access a 3D texture (realitykit::texture::textures::custom returns a texture2d).
Any work-arounds? Could I even do something icky like cast the texture2d to a texture3d in MSL? (is that even possible?) Could I encode the 3d texture into an argument buffer and get that in somehow?
Has anyone come across the issue that setting GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler breaks a RealityView's world tracking on iOS / iPadOS 18 beta 5?
I'm in the process of upgrading my app to make use of the much appreciated RealityView unification, using RealityView not only on visionOS but now also on iOS and iPadOS. In my RealityView, I enable world tracking on iOS like this:
content.camera = .worldTracking
However, device position and orientation were ignored (the camera remained static) and there was no camera pass-through. Then I discovered that the issue disappeared when I remove the line
GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler = { viewController, error in
// ... some more code ...
}
So I filed FB14731139 and hope that it will be resolved before the release of iOS / iPadOS 18.