I Attended WWDC25 Recap for Spatial Computing
On Monday, June 16, an event called "WWDC25 Recap for Spatial Computing" was held at Toranomon Hills, and I attended. Here is my report.
As someone who lives in Chiba, I am very happy when events are held around the center or eastern side of Tokyo, so I tend to attend. This time, the location was not as far as Shibuya, which I appreciated. The venue was TOKYO NODE LAB. It was a very stylish venue. Apparently there are also plans to hold hackathons there in the future. I look forward to that.
On the day, drinks and other things were served at the networking session. As someone who knows how hard event operations can be, I was truly grateful to the organizers. Thank you to everyone involved in running the event.
This time it was a WWDC25 recap, and specifically focused on Spatial Computing, so I felt I definitely had to hear it. I had applied for WWDC25 myself, but was not selected. It was my first time applying, so I hope to keep trying a few more times and eventually get selected.
Apple Park, famous for its circular building, is somewhere I have always wanted to go inside, so it was nice to see photos of the courtyard and photos showing how the event was held there. I will go someday.
As for the main presentations, I had watched the keynote and related material beforehand, but there were still many details I did not understand well. Each topic was broken down in an accessible way, so it served as a good review. Advanced people may have found it insufficient, but for me it was just right.
I am attracted to spatial computing, and apparently Apple is actively taking an approach where, in addition to suddenly creating new things for it, they also bring existing things into spatial computing through AI or other means. That made me think that it is certainly important not only to create new things, but also to figure out how to bring the huge asset of existing content into the world of spatial computing.
The main session was about one hour, followed by networking. I thought it was good that the networking time was fairly long. The visionOS community is quite small, and it is common to meet someone at one event and then meet them again at another.
Especially because we held VisionDevCamp Tokyo in April, I have gotten to know many more people. Some of the speakers were people we had asked to serve as judges, so I was able to greet them again.
I Wore the Even G1
This deviates a little from visionOS, but I wore the Even G1 the whole time: on the train to the venue, while moving to the venue, and during the sessions. Incidentally, the Even G1 is a pair of smart glasses from Even Realities.
Even Realities came up during the event too, so that led to lively conversations at the networking session about the Even G1 and other smart glasses. Personally, I think Apple will surely release a smart-glasses type of product someday, but from the impression I got talking with people from Apple, it seems to be the exact opposite of the concept Apple currently has. Still, considering that you never know what will happen in the world, I will keep waiting with expectations.
At the networking session, I strongly felt that many people want to use Vision Pro for various businesses, but because the future is hard to predict, they are also researching other devices.
I am also trying many things while feeling uncertain in many ways. It was a night when I thought that working under the title "Yorihiroi Frontend," meaning I will take on many different things, was not wrong.