If you’re gonna spend $3,500 on a face-hugging computer, you’ll want to get your money’s worth of mind-blowing experiences. For that, you’ll need the best Vision Pro apps available on day one.
Here are some of the coolest apps, concepts and use cases we’ve seen so far:
Best Vision Pro apps, concepts and experiences
Tour 3D homes, hotels and resorts
This one’s a mind-bender! The home-buying app Zillow allows Vision Pro users to tour homes in 3D. It’s as though you are actually at the property, instead of sitting on your couch. Clearly, it would be possible to also tour other properties: hotels, resorts, offices, museums and on and on.
Watch Formula 1 in 3D
This Formula 1 demo allows viewers to see where the race cars are on the actual track, while watching the race on a traditional TV feed. It uses a 3D projection of the track that sits right in front of the virtual TV, making it much easier to see the state of the race.
Watch YouTube in Vision Pro with Juno
Netflix and YouTube made headlines by not bringing native apps to Vision Pro. But fear not, Juno is a third-party app that allows you to browse YouTube in the spatial computer.
Bring the weather indoors with Seasons app for Vision Pro
Instead of looking out your window, you can now bring the weather indoors. Just strap on your Vision Pro and the Seasons app will make it rain and thunderstorm in your living room!
Learn to play guitar with Vision Pro
Shred like a guitar hero with this learn-to-play app, which looks a lot more helpful and hands-on than watching instructional YouTube videos. (Actually, it’s just a concept right now, but the developer says the app is in process.)
Learn to play piano with Piano: Flowing Tiles
Likewise, piano-tutoring app Piano: Flowing Tiles looks like a cool way to learn how to tickle the ivories.
Cooking with Vision Pro
Setting a sticky timer over a pot of pasta is the future of cooking
Watching basketball
Get a ton of NBA stats, scores and other games while watching basketball games. It’s PiP on steroids.
Tech Deck in 3D
If 3D tech decking doesn’t justify spending $3,500 on Vision Pro, we don’t know what does.
News Ticker
This Vision Pro app puts a news ticker in your face. Headline catch your eye? Look at it, pinch your fingers, and it opens up in a Safari window.
Try a Tesla before you buy with Vision Pro
This concept app puts you inside a Tesla Cybertruck and launches you into space!
Meditating
Several early reviewers found Vision Pro great for meditating. That includes Apple CEO Tim Cook, who in an interview with Vanity Fair said it’s the best meditating experience he’s found after practicing for years.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander is an expert on:
Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
Apple community
iPhone and iOS
iPad and iPadOS
Mac and macOS
Apple Watch and watchOS
Apple TV and tvOS
AirPods
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
