With best-in-class frameworks and tools, visionOS is the perfect platform for you to create incredible spatial experiences. Whether you’re dreaming up an app or game, building a media experience, designing moments of connection and collaboration with SharePlay, creating apps for business, or updating your website to support visionOS, we’ve got sessions and information to help you make your plan. Get ready for the SDK with 46 sessions that will help you learn about developing for visionOS, designing for spatial experiences, and testing and tools.
Viral video alleging apples are painted from green to red using chemical, manipulated
Claim: A viral video on Facebook claims apples are usually painted from green to red with a chemical.
Verdict: False. The apples are not real. They are candy apples with chocolate contents.
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Recently, a video circulated across social media platforms claiming that apples being imported into the country were painted from green to red with chemicals. The video came amid concerns among Nigerians over the safety of the food they consume.
The video, which has been trending on Facebook, contained two captions, namely, “What do you call this? Lord protect your own” and “Sad”. There was a tiny video frame imposed on the video. The video frame captured the face of a man who was explaining what was happening in the video. The man, who spoke in Pidgin English, said the apples were being painted from green to red with bad chemicals which could adversely affect people’s health when consumed. He urged the public to believe in God if they erstwhile had doubts.
He said, “In this life, only God knows what is going on. A lot of things are happening. See the food we’re consuming. Watch this video and see what they’re using to paint this apple. Once they finish painting it with bad chemicals, they start selling it to people. You’ll finish eating it and not understand your body again in the name of looking for fruits.
“It is only God that can help us in this world because the things that are happening now, only God can stop them, only God can help his children. If you don’t believe God, start believing now because the way the world is going, you won’t understand.”
A look at the comment section showed that some people believed the video while others were in doubt. A user Adj Hamina Haja commented, “That’s why guys, I don’t like to eat red apples because of this.” Some users advised that when people buy apples, they should peel off the skin and eat what’s left to avoid being victims of the ‘chemicals’ used on it.
Apple is one of the most common fruits medical practitioners recommend for people to sustain a healthy lifestyle. A popular saying goes thus, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”.
According to a report by Medical News Today, the apple fruit comes in varieties such as:
McIntosh: a juicy, red apple with tender, white flesh and a tangy flavor
Red delicious: a crisp, juicy red apple
Fuji: a yellow and red apple with firm, sweet flesh
Granny Smith: a green apple with crisp, greenish flesh and a sharp flavor
Golden Delicious: a yellow apple with a mild, sweet flavour.
Meanwhile, WebMD established the benefits of green apples to include: digestive health, heart health, and reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, among others. Generally, apples have been found to reduce the risk of cancer in humans.
Screenshots of the comment section are attached below.
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A reverse image search traced the video to an Instagram reel from January 2022.
A close look at the video showed the factory workers putting their fingers inside the ‘apple’ to achieve a firm grip to allow them to paint the items properly. That was the first sign that the apples are not real as it is impossible to tuck fingers into real, uncut apples.
Also, DUBAWA made use of the Invid video verification software to identify the source of the video and get more pointers as to whether it is fake or real. A reverse image search on the keyframes showed that a TikTok user, Me Lavie’s @cacao_ing posted the video on December 3, 2021, with the caption ‘Merry Christmas’. The video on TikTok featured the popular Christmas song, and the video was a longer version of the one shared on Facebook.
Towards the end of the video, there were images of the same items (apples) arranged in Christmas gift boxes to show that they actually present for the season. However, there are no further details on the actual use of the items.
A visit to the comment section showed that the video raised a lot of questions and speculations from viewers, though some of the comments were written in the Vietnamese language, which DUBAWA translated using the Google Translate tool.
The TikTok account replied to one of the comments with another video, as seen here. The second video showed the process of making the apple-shaped item with an opening at the bottom, explaining the space the factory workers tucked in their fingers. The video creator further showed how the colouring was made, after which the item is painted red to look like a red apple.
The space at the bottom is the entry point for adding candies, after which it is sealed to hold the candies. When it is presented as a gift to another person, they are expected to rip it open and get the contents — the edibles.
DUBAWA further used Google Fact-Check Explorer and found a similar report done in 2022 regarding the same video on Factly, a fact-checking organisation. The fact-check traced the video to the same video creator, Me Lavie’s @cacao_ing, and also identified the items as gifts commonly presented by the Chinese to their friends and loved ones on Christmas or Valentine’s day. The items were displayed on online e-commerce sites such as here and here.
However, this is not to rule out the fact that there are candy apples made with real apples. Here, a real apple of any colour is dipped into a syrup or coating, which could be chocolate, caramel or any other sweetener, as seen here.
Get started with visionOS
visionOS brings familiar frameworks and brand new concepts together so you can build an entirely new universe of apps designed for spatial computing. To help get you started on your journey, we’ve put together an introductory series of sessions that cover the building blocks of spatial computing along with designing apps and games for this platform. Learn how familiar frameworks like SwiftUI, UIKit, RealityKit, and ARKit have evolved to help you build apps for an infinite canvas. These sessions are designed to provide a great foundation for developing for visionOS — no matter your prior experience with Apple platforms.
Meet spatial computing
Discover the fundamentals that make up spatial computing — windows, volumes, and spaces — and find out how you can use these elements to build engaging and immersive experiences. We’ll take you through the frameworks you’ll use to create apps for visionOS and show you how to design with depth, scale, and immersion. Explore how you can use tools from Apple, like Xcode and the new Reality Composer Pro, and how you can make spatial computing apps that work well for everyone.
Get started with building apps for spatial computing
Principles of spatial design
Create accessible spatial experiences
Develop your first immersive app
Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the basics of visionOS, find out more about the frameworks that power this platform. Take a tour of SwiftUI for visionOS and learn how you can add depth to your windows and volumes, and use a Full Space to let people experience your app like never before. We’ll also introduce you to UIKit for spatial computing and share how you can use it alongside SwiftUI.
Meet SwiftUI for spatial computing
Meet UIKit for spatial computing
Related documentation
- Creating your first visionOS app
- Adding 3D content to your app
- Creating fully immersive experiences in your app
- Designing for visionOS
Explore SwiftUI and RealityKit
For an even deeper dive into SwiftUI and RealityKit, explore a dedicated series of sessions focusing on SwiftUI scene types to help you build great experiences across windows, volumes, and spaces. Get to know the Model 3D API, learn how you can add depth and dimension to your app, and find out how to render 3D content with RealityView. And we’ll help you get ready to launch into ImmersiveSpace — a new SwiftUI scene type that lets you make great immersive experiences for visionOS. Learn best practices for managing your scene types, increasing immersion, and building an “out of this world” experience.
Elevate your windowed app for spatial computing
Take SwiftUI to the next dimension
Go beyond the window with SwiftUI
Related documentation
- Hello World
- Presenting windows and spaces
- Positioning and sizing windows
In our second series, learn how you can bring engaging and immersive content to your app with RealityKit. Get started with RealityKit entities, components, and systems, and find out how to add 3D models and effects to your project. We’ll show you how you can embed your content into an entity hierarchy, blend virtual content and the real world using anchors, bring particle effects into your apps, add video content, and create more immersive experiences with portals.
Enhance your spatial computing app with RealityKit
Build spatial experiences with RealityKit
Related documentation
- Diorama
- Understanding RealityKit’s modular architecture
Rediscover ARKit
Lastly, we’ll help you get to know ARKit on visionOS. This platform uses ARKit algorithms to handle features like persistence, world mapping, segmentation, matting, and environment lighting. These algorithms are always running, allowing apps and games to automatically benefit from ARKit while in the Shared Space. Once your app opens a dedicated Full Space, it can take advantage of ARKit APIs and blend virtual content with the real world.
We’ll share how this framework has been completely reimagined to let you build interactive experiences — all while preserving privacy. Discover how you can make 3D content that interacts with someone’s room — whether you want to bounce a virtual ball off the floor or throw virtual paint on a wall. Explore the latest updates to the ARKit API and follow along as we demonstrate how to take advantage of hand tracking and scene geometry in your apps.
Meet ARKit for spatial computing
Evolve your ARKit app for spatial experiences
Related documentation
- Happy Beam
- Setting up access to ARKit data
- Placing content on detected planes
- Incorporating real-world surroundings in an immersive experience
- Tracking specific points in world space
- Tracking preregistered images in 3D space
Design for visionOS
Find out how you can design great apps, games, and experiences for spatial computing. Discover brand-new inputs and components. Dive into depth and scale. Add moments of immersion. Create spatial audio soundscapes. Find opportunities for collaboration and connection. And help people stay grounded to their surroundings while they explore entirely new worlds. Whether this is your first time designing spatial experiences or you’ve been building fully immersive apps for years, learn how you can create magical hero moments, enchanting soundscapes, human-centric UI, and more — all with visionOS.
Principles of spatial design
Design spatial user interfaces
Design for spatial input
Explore immersive sound design
Design considerations for vision and motion
Design spatial SharePlay experiences
Related documentation
- Designing for visionOS
- Designing for spatial layout
- Designing immersive experiences
- Designing for eyes
- Designing for gestures
- Adopting best practices for privacy and user preferences
- Improving accessibility support in your visionOS app
Explore developer tools for visionOS
Apple offers a comprehensive suite of tools to help you build great apps, games, and experiences for visionOS. Learn how you can get started in Xcode with your first visionOS project, explore updates to tooling and testing, find out how to take advantage of Reality Composer Pro in your 3D development workflow, and discover how you’ll be able use Unity’s authoring tools to create great experiences for spatial computing.
Develop with Xcode
Start developing for visionOS with Xcode. We’ll show you how to add an visionOS destination to your existing projects or build an entirely new app, prototype in Xcode Previews, and import content from Reality Composer Pro. We’ll also share how you can use the visionOS simulator to evaluate your experiences against a variety of simulated scenes and lighting conditions. Learn how to create tests and visualizations to explore collisions, occlusions, and scene understanding for your spatial content, and optimize that content for performance and efficiency.
What’s new in Xcode 15
Develop your first immersive app
Meet RealityKit Trace
Explore rendering for spatial computing
Optimize app power and performance for spatial computing
Meet Core Location for spatial computing
Related documentation
- Diagnosing and resolving bugs in your running app
- Diagnosing issues in the appearance of a running app
- Creating a performance plan for your visionOS app
- Managing files and folders in your Xcode project
- Configuring your app icon
- Running your app in Simulator or on a device
- Interacting with your app in the visionOS simulator
Meet Reality Composer Pro
Discover a new way to preview and prepare 3D content for your visionOS apps. Available later this month, Reality Composer Pro leverages the power of USD to help you compose, edit and preview assets, such as 3D models, materials, and sounds. We’ll show you how to take advantage of this tool to create immersive content for your apps, add materials to objects, and bring your Reality Composer Pro content to life in Xcode. We’ll also take you through the latest updates to Universal Scene Description (USD) on Apple platforms.
Meet Reality Composer Pro
Explore materials in Reality Composer Pro
Work with Reality Composer Pro content in Xcode
Explore the USD ecosystem
Related documentation
- Designing RealityKit content with Reality Composer Pro
Get started with Unity
Learn how you can build visionOS experiences directly in Unity. Discover how Unity developers can use their existing 3D scenes and assets to build an app or game for visionOS. Thanks to deep integration between Unity and Apple frameworks, you can create an experience anywhere you can use RealityKit — whether you’re building 3D content for a window, volume, or the Shared Space. You also get all the benefits of building for Apple platforms, including access to native inputs, passthrough, and more. And we’ll also show you how you can use Unity to create fully immersive experiences.
Create immersive Unity apps
Bring your Unity VR app to a fully immersive space
Learn about TestFlight and App Store Connect
App Store Connect will provide the tools you need to manage, test, and deploy your visionOS apps on the App Store. We’ll share basics and best practices for deploying your first spatial computing app, adding support for visionOS to an existing app, and managing compatibility. We’ll also show you how TestFlight for visionOS lets you test your apps and collect valuable feedback as you iterate.
