--- title: WWDC26: Explore advances in RealityKit | Apple | daily.dev description: WWDC26 session covering new RealityKit features including: lightmaps and soft shadows for realistic lighting, physical space lighting to project virtual lights... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wwdc26-explore-advances-in-realitykit-apple-5tmwpmka0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: WWDC26: Explore advances in RealityKit | Apple | daily.dev og:description: WWDC26 session covering new RealityKit features including: lightmaps and soft shadows for realistic lighting, physical space lighting to project virtual lights... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wwdc26-explore-advances-in-realitykit-apple-5tmwpmka0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5tMwPmKa0.png og:image:alt: WWDC26: Explore advances in RealityKit | Apple og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # WWDC26: Explore advances in RealityKit | Apple **[Apple Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/appledeveloper)** · 23 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary WWDC26 session covering new RealityKit features including: lightmaps and soft shadows for realistic lighting, physical space lighting to project virtual lights onto real-world surfaces, navigation mesh for NPC/player pathfinding with traversal costs and off-mesh connections, advanced cloth simulation with pinning support, mesh level-of-detail (LOD) switching for performance, 3D Gaussian splat rendering for volumetric real-world captures, and raytraced geometrical acoustics with custom reverb meshes for immersive spatial audio on Apple Vision Pro. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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