Apple Spatial and visionOS Design

Apply the skill

Choose the experience’s spatial form and level of immersion based on the task. Read the platform and relevant interaction references. Establish viewing distance, scale behavior, placement, and how people enter, leave, or recenter the experience.

Prefer comfortable indirect interaction and minimal required body movement. Keep essential content discoverable without sustained head or arm movement. Use depth and immersion only where they convey useful meaning, and retain understandable relationships to the environment.

For AR, design tracking, surface discovery, placement, and recovery states. For visionOS, consider Shared Space and Full Space behavior separately. Validate comfort and targeting on the device; label screen-based judgments as provisional.

Topic references

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• Designing for visionOS
• Immersive experiences
• Spatial layout
• Eyes
• Ornaments
• Augmented reality

Source use

These references are original operational summaries of Apple’s public HIG, checked on 2026-09-08. They are guidance for design decisions, not a reproduced manual or a guarantee of App Store acceptance.

Read only the topic references relevant to the current task. Each links to the full official page. Consult that page for exact specifications, platform exceptions, assets, and version-sensitive behavior; use current official developer documentation for APIs and availability. If live documentation is unavailable, state the snapshot date and identify assumptions instead of inventing current requirements.

The user’s product goals, selected framework, and authorized scope remain controlling. Distinguish a source recommendation from a hard platform requirement and from your own proposed implementation.