Apple’s first flagship immersive device, Apple Vision Pro, is finally shipping and Resolve built one of the first native applications available on the App Store on Day 1. If you’ve picked up an Apple Vision Pro search “Resolve - Spatial BIM App” and download Resolve from the App Store to see what it’s like to seamlessly transition from reviewing 2D construction documents to being immersed in 3D BIM. This marks a major milestone for immersive technology for AECO and for the Resolve team.Since launching Resolve on the Meta Quest store in 2022, Resolve has quickly become an industry leader with construction projects totaling more than $30 Billion  using Resolve to improve their BIM reviews and reduce budget overruns from construction rework. The Resolve team has learned a lot about what it takes to build a scalable and impactful XR solution for design and construction and has solved many of the challenges that make  XR BIM workflows difficult to use.We’re excited for those workflows to evolve with Resolve for Apple Vision Pro.Why we’re excited about Apple Vision ProOne of our driving philosophies at Resolve is to make technology that “just works” even if it’s incredibly complex under the hood. Apple Vision Pro just works. It takes a lot of the friction points associated with using XR and abstracts them away to the point you don’t notice. It is seamless. And building off  previous Apple operating systems like MacOS and iOS it allows apps to integrate into an ecosystem so it feels more like using a computer than a peripheral - it’s a spatial computer. Multidimensional multitaskingOne of the most exciting things about Apple Vision Pro is the cohesiveness of the spatial experience. The window system is designed to let you immerse yourself in 2D panels containing information you already use today to get work done: videos, drawings, equipment manuals, you name it. And then, when you need to, you can seamlessly transition into a 3D experience in two flavors: an AR passthrough experience or a fully immersive VR experience.The seamless transition from 2D to a spatial experience is the first half of the magic. One minute you’re reviewing your Autodesk Construction Cloud or Procore project dashboard and the next you’re in the model for your project. But you don’t have to put on a headset and leave behind your workstation to “go do VR” - your monitors suddenly transform into your BIM file before your very eyes.And if that wasn't enough, you can bring your windows with you into spatial experiences too. Resolve’s app on the store is designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to bring your 2D sheets with you into a spatial experience. But if there’s a video or a website you want to pull up, the Vision Pro’s multitasking lets you open a new app window within your spatial experience. Industries like construction, which have been creating rich 3D content for years, are poised to benefit from the powerful workflows that are unlocked when people can swiftly go from 2D to 3D and back as they see fit. Not everything has to be 3D all the time and 2D data still has its place. Apple Vision Pro is a powerful multitasking device that lets you tap into the power of immersion as you see fit without sacrificing critical data still in 2D formats.Standing on the shoulders of a giant ecosystemApple Vision Pro builds on the apps, frameworks, and hardware of the existing Apple ecosystem and that gives it a lot of potential for powerful new workflows. Popular industry apps like Plangrid and Procore were built for the iPad and the next generation of construction apps on Apple Vision Pro will be able to build off of workflows pioneered by predecessors.With many powerful SDKs already available as part of the Swift programming ecosystem we’re also excited to see accelerated development of features that aren’t 3D based but still provide a lot of value for productivity. The Resolve app for Apple Vision Pro includes one example of this: you can manipulate dense construction PDFs just like you can on an iPad but now on your Apple Vision Pro.We’ve designed and rewritten the VisionOS version of Resolve in native Swift so that it feels like an extension of the system and functionality that has become table stakes for construction apps. We’re excited to keep pushing these workflows to the next level.ConsiderationsOf course there’s still a lot to be determined about Apple Vision Pro workflows. It’s only Day 1 and we’re well aware of some of the limitations and concerns that are worth addressing.For example, because this device is using passthrough video as opposed to clear AR glasses like the hololens your field of view is restricted raising OSHA concerns for certain use cases like on-site augmented reality for field workers. This device in this form may not solve that use case today, but it’s a step in the right direction.Second - there are no controllers for this device, so spatial BIM review tools like Resolve wil have to rethink how users perform locomotion in their models to make exploration just as easy as on the Meta Quest devices. However, the benefit is, without controllers, the headsets are much more easily accessible and can reach a wider audience with the revolutionary eye and hand tracking delivered by Apple Vision Pro. Lastly, this is an Apple device that works in the Apple ecosystem. Many beloved 2D and 3D industry tools are built as Microsoft Windows only tools. So figuring out how to best integrate them into the Apple Vision Pro ecosystem will take some careful consideration and time.