Yuki Kobayashi (小林佑樹) is the co-founder and CEO of MESON Inc., a Tokyo-based spatial computing studio. He was selected at WWDC 2023 as one of the first Japanese developers to try Apple Vision Pro, and his team shipped the native visionOS weather app SunnyTune in the platform's launch wave in January 2024. He was a speaker at the Apple Vision Pro Developer Conference "Let's visionOS" in Beijing (March 2024) and writes publicly about spatial computing strategy.
Native visionOS sensory weather app for Apple Vision Pro by MESON. A miniature spatial diorama mirrors real-world weather at the user's current location, with skies, clouds, rain, and vegetation that respond to conditions, plus the ability to scrub time forward and compare weather in other cities. Features collaborations with Niantic's Peridot and the anime series Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Released in the Apple Vision Pro launch wave.
Platform owner of Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, providing the hardware, operating system, SDKs, App Store distribution, and first-party spatial computing strategy.
MESON Inc. (株式会社MESON) is a Tokyo-based spatial computing company founded in September 2017 by Yuki Kobayashi. The studio focuses on XR and spatial intelligence projects fusing AR/VR with AI, and ships native visionOS apps for Apple Vision Pro, including the consumer weather app SunnyTune and enterprise/exhibition experiences for clients such as Tokyo Gas, ITOCHU, and Canon. Kobayashi was among the first Japanese developers selected to try Apple Vision Pro at WWDC 2023.
Tokyo-based spatial computing studio MESON released SunnyTune, a native visionOS sensory weather app, in the Apple Vision Pro launch wave. SunnyTune mirrors real-world conditions in a small spatial diorama with reactive skies, rain, and vegetation, lets users scrub time forward to preview the forecast, and compares weather across cities. The studio described it as one of the first Japan-developed apps shipped on the U.S. launch day of Apple Vision Pro.