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Vision Pro apps: the good, the bad, and the ridiculous

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The Vision Pro is Apple’s newest computing platform, and that means we’re going to see a whole bunch of new apps. Apple pitches apps built for the Vision Pro as “spatial” experiences, and even after our initial review experience, we’ll have to see how those differ from or improve upon the virtual reality and mixed reality experiences we’ve seen on other platforms. Of course, the Vision Pro can run iPhone and iPad apps, too, and display the screen of your nearby Mac laptop or desktop.

Apple says that the Vision Pro’s 600-plus apps available at launch will bring 3D movies from Disney Plus, support from apps like Max and Amazon Prime video, and games like What the Golf? and Super Fruit Ninja. But the walled gardens of today’s tech world work in both directions, and there are some notable day-one omissions — Netflix’s app won’t work on Apple’s headset, and the same goes for YouTube.

The Vision Pro launches on February 2nd, and there are sure to be some good, bad, and flat-out weird apps in the weeks and months to come. (What will be the next I Am Rich?) Here’s all of our coverage of the apps for Apple’s new platform.

  • The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app
  • Vision Pro’s viral Lapz app put on hold after F1 complaint
  • Watch this one-minute preview of Apple’s first scripted Vision Pro short
  • Christian Selig’s unofficial YouTube app for the Vision Pro just got taken down
  • Disney Plus now takes you to Iceland.
  • Foggy.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd (on Apple Vision Pro)
  • The Vision Pro needs a macOS-style dock.
  • The visionOS 2 beta enables web-based VR.
  • Marvel’s What If…? Vision Pro app is an awkward mix of video game and movie
  • Marvel’s What If…? Vision Pro mixed reality story will debut on May 30th.
  • Marvel is bringing a mixed reality edition of What If…? to the Vision Pro
  • The best worst way to play Metroid Prime.
  • What to do when Metroid Prime 4 still isn’t out.
  • Best Buy launches an augmented reality shopping app for the Vision Pro.
  • The Supercut app brings good Netflix to the Vision Pro
  • Do I feel less lonely in the Vision Pro?
  • Robots, virtually in disguise.
  • Now Apple Vision Pro Personas can float freely across different apps
  • Is the MLB’s Vision Pro app ready for the big leagues?
  • The Vision Pro is getting some new Apple Arcade games.
  • You can watch March Madness games for free in the Vision Pro.
  • You can now browse Vision Pro apps on the web.
  • You can watch these new IMAX documentaries on your Vision Pro headset.
  • You can watch TV on a CRT in the Vision Pro.
  • What it’s like to make an app for the Vision Pro.
  • The Apple Vision Pro is getting two VR gaming staples.
  • Ponder this (shiny) orb on the Vision Pro.
  • Apple recommends some Arcade games for Vision Pro owners.
  • TikTok’s native app arrives for the Vision Pro
  • Totally unofficial Apple Vision Pro YouTube app makes it to version 1.1.
  • Vision Pro app downloads are a mixed bag so far.
  • This is the entire Vision Pro motion sickness label.
  • YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’
  • You can’t walk and Vision Pro at the same time.
  • Here’s Marques Brownlee’s Vision Pro review.
  • Halide sums up the stereoscopic photography of the Vision Pro.
  • How would you score Apple’s spatial computer?
  • Snarky weather forecasts — in mixed reality.
  • Here are all of the 3D Disney movies available on the Vision Pro.
  • This Vision Pro app breaks down communication barriers.
  • Ok. Now I want one.
  • Even without Netflix and YouTube, Apple’s Vision Pro has over 600 apps at launch
  • Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch
  • The Vision Pro is a computer for the age of walled gardens
  • Zoom meetings are about to get weirder thanks to the Vision Pro
  • At least one app is preparing to enable HDMI input to Apple’s Vision Pro.
  • Web apps: maybe not coming to a Vision Pro homescreen near you?
  • The Vision Pro’s first killer app is the web, whether Apple likes it or not
  • Netflix’s app won’t work on the Vision Pro
  • You won’t be able to use the YouTube app on the Vision Pro
  • Here’s Fruit Ninja on the Vision Pro.
  • Apple Vision Pro will launch with 3D movies from Disney Plus
  • So, what can you do with a Vision Pro?
  • It looks like 3D movies are coming to the Apple TV app.
  • iPhone and iPad apps will be available in the Vision Pro App Store by default
  • Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset
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