Hello Looming Deadlines
Looming Deadlines is an app I’m launching this fall for visionOS 2. You can use it to set deadlines for your most important projects and milestones. Deadlines can loom large in the Shared Space by dominating your field of view, or they can shrink down to a tiny desk accessory.
The app is little more than a prototype at this stage. I spent the last two weeks building this prototype and getting it to the point where I could set up the TestFlight. From here on out my plan is to develop this app in public as much as possible. There are a few ways you can follow along.
- Development Blog on vrhermit.com
- I’ll post updates on social media. I’m most active on x.com and Threads @vrhermit.
Current features
- Create and edit deadline records
- Customize the appearance of a deadline
- Background: glass, colors, gradient presets)
- Timer text options
- Title text options
- Open deadline in a standalone window.
- Scale these up as large as you like. My are stupid big and float in the sky as if the universe were shouting at me.
Features Ideas (no promises!)
- Lots more options to customize deadlines
- Better 3D text options
- View deadlines in Volumes
- An immersive space that I’m calling “Dread Mode”. More on that soon
Known issues
- I forgot to add the app name to the navigation part in the main window. For now it says “redacted project name”.
- Some default values may seem weird.
- CloudKit may not sync data on initial launch. Force quit the app and relaunch it.
- 3D text wiggles around when the second ticks, despite using a monospaced font.