Dassault Systemes has announced new Apple Vision Pro apps.
French company Dassault Systemes worked with Apple to integrate the Apple Vision Pro into its existing 3DEXPERIENCE platform, offering spatial computing via multiple applications.
Dassault Systemes announced the collaboration on Tuesday at its annual 3DEXPERIENCE Forum held in Houston, Texas — an event geared toward industrial consumers in North America. The French software company specializes in 3D tools for virtual planning, product design, and manufacturing, as well as software that facilitates the simulation of different production processes.
Dassault Systemes is also known for its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which involves the concept of a “virtual twin” — effectively a digital model of a real-world object or planned product, often with a corresponding virtual environment. Virtual twins allow companies to evaluate, model, simulate products and are used in various industries as they enable visualization in conditions that mirror the real world.
Through its collaboration with Apple, Dassault Systemes was able to take advantage of the advanced sensors and cameras of the Apple Vision Pro, and offer its digital twin experience on the headset. Twins created with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will allow for real-time collaboration, meaning that users will be able to interact with digital twins in a 3D environment.
The French software company believes its digital twins on Apple Vision Pro will be used across various industry sectors and roles, for applications in employee training, 3D modeling, manufacturing, and delivery. The use of spatial computing for virtual twins could reportedly lead to improvements in product quality.
“This is at the core of our next generation of representation of the world,” said Elisa Prisner of Dassault Systemes. “Our engineering collaboration with Apple represents a bold advance that reveals the power of 3D UNIV+RSES, where 3D is a universal language for a new world combining real and virtual.”
Apple’s Vice President of the Vision Products Group, Mike Rockwell, said that the iPhone maker was thrilled to be working with Dassault Systemes. “Apple Vision Pro continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible with spatial computing and is changing the way people work across key industries,” said Rockwell.
The two companies were able to “supercharge the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with spatial computing capabilities that will enable engineers and designers to effortlessly bring 3D designs to life in ways not previously possible,” according to Mike Rockwell.
Dassault Systemes has also released a new app for the Apple Vision Pro called “HomeByMeReality,” which will let users apply spatial computing to to interior decorating. Enterprise users will be able to download the company’s other Apple Vision Pro app, 3DLive, in the summer of 2025.
