Matt Dessero is a human interface designer at Apple who has publicly explained the capture, visual-effects, audio, and interaction work behind Apple Vision Pro environments.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a US research and development center that publishes Exploring Mars, a native Apple Vision Pro educational experience featuring the Perseverance rover and a reconstruction of Jezero Crater.
Platform owner of Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, providing the hardware, operating system, SDKs, App Store distribution, and first-party spatial computing strategy.
Popular Science interviewed Apple Vision Pro product marketer Yuri Imoto and human interface designer Matt Dessero about creating the headset's Jupiter moon and terrestrial environments. They described working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, combining panoramic capture with 3D scans, LiDAR and shaders, and adding M5-enabled dynamic shadows while balancing realism with a usable workspace.
Cool Hunting interviewed Apple's Yuri Imoto and Matt Dessero about the emotional and technical design of Apple Vision Pro environments. The discussion covers panoramic capture, LiDAR, acoustic meshes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory guidance for the Jupiter setting, and the practice of evaluating environment design from inside the headset.