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All The Coolest Apps & Games for Vision Pro
Mar 11, 2025
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good evening in this video I'm going to
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run through all of the most interesting
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apps games and experiences that I have
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found in my week and a half or so with
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the Vision Pro so if you can't afford it
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or if it isn't available in your country
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yet you can live vicariously through me
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as I show you all of the most
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interesting stuff that I have
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found I'm once again in my unusually
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large living room it looks kind of a
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normal from this angle but from here you
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can see I just have a big empty void
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I've never really known how to fill that
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space But since I got the Vision Pro
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it's been a pretty good area to try out
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AR apps and so this is where I'm going
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to be demoing all these things today
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launch the apps here and we'll start
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with what I think is one of the most
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interesting uses of AR what the gulf
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this creates what's called a volume so I
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still have a window Grabber there that I
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can pinch and bring up close to me but
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this isn't you know a rectangular window
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shaped window it's a 3 object that I can
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interact with and if you're familiar
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with the game with the golf it works
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pretty similar you pinch pull
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back and there you go I'll replay a few
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levels just to show you what it's all
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about so as you can see this isn't your
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standard issue golfing game it's sort of
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a silly take on
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it there
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clubs I've played this on the iPhone on
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the Apple TV and they've taken the
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graphics from the game
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and made them like real 3D objects which
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is just crazy the gesture detection
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isn't as perfect as you know playing it
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on an iPhone you know this is not a
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Precision gaming experience but it is a
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brand new gaming experience just like
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playing the Nintendo Wii so that's
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enough of that let's move on to another
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game that I've tried super fruit ninja
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so you know you're all familiar with the
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game Fruit Ninja super fruit ninja has
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similarly been totally reimagined so as
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you can see it's placing objects in my
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environment there's a weird old man
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standing in front of the camera and a
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pig that's sort of just wandering around
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and we slice with our whole hand to
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begin portal opens up we've got all of
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these different game modes I'm going to
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play Zen because it's the one that's
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directly in front of
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me
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wh that wasn't very good the hand
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detection isn't perfect which can kind
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of be a deal breaker for a game like
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this but it is an apple arcade it's you
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know free to play with an apple arcade
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subscription what a thrilling time to be
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alive oh a pig hello here's another
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really cool use of AR that I found this
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is Game Room places this 3D table
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floating in my environment with a stack
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of board games here we're just going to
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start a round of hearts and again these
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cards are all in full 3d it's it's
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really
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crazy how this looks I just tap and look
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with my
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eyes to move these things
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around so with any of these apps I can
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dial in Apple's built-in fake 3D
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environment you know now I'm not in my
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living room I'm in Mount Hood and you
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can really see how the lighting changes
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it adapts to the environment it becom
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comes much more blue and much more
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bright then I'm back in my dingy living
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room but this game also has its own
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environment suddenly I'm in this
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imaginary Library I can see all of these
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books around me and other board games a
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chess board over there and not really
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sure what kind of game leads to only
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those black pieces being on the board
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but if I look around I can still see
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areas of my environment like the table
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next to me there's the wall I can see
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the rug on the real floor but I can play
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the game in this more immersive space if
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I prefer so I'm definitely going to pick
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this game up later but for now I'm going
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to go back to the home
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screen here's another game I actually
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haven't played it yet but it looks
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pretty interesting called void X this is
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sort of a vintage bullet dodging game it
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places all these 3D elements in your
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real space in addition to having a
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little window here kind of a Galaga
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style shooting game here avoid those
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bullets still got to place some shots
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presume there's a heart need that looks
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like I'm getting kind of low on those
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these 3D Pixel effects are really cool
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those bursts are like fireworks in my in
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my space here so that is void x a fun
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little arcade game I'm definitely going
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to be playing that again now let's play
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a more immersive game Jetpack Joy Ride 2
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there's another remake of a classic iOS
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game and this puts me in a really
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immersive environment so I'm going to
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start with the game here the kind of
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iPhone games where the whole screen is
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just one simple button where you just
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tap the screen to interact translates
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very well because instead of tapping the
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screen you're just pinching your
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fingers I don't entirely understand
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what's happening here but that's roughly
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how it works and I'm not plagued with
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looking at the world around me I'm in
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this fake laboratory that's in the style
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of the game NE thing about this
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environment though is you can just kind
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of look and tap around at a bunch of
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stuff those little Newton's Cradle over
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there oh sorry guy little TV you can
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turn on and
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off punching
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bag oh some snacks in the fridge a
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little thing up
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there oh we can do that and tap those
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things
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Pour Some Water got to stay hydrated
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$3,499 for this experience just keep
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that in mind so let's move on to some
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other experiences if you're a space nerd
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like me this one is really cool it
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places the Mars perseverance Rover in
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your living room and you can scale it up
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I'm going to dial it all the way up to a
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full size and this thing is just room
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filling huge it's so cool and I know for
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you at home it's not the same watching
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me do this or watching it through a 2d
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screen but like if you can stand up hold
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your arm out in front of you and like I
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have to look like I have to look up
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that's how big this thing is and I can
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just walk all the way around it probably
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going off screen but this is just so
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cool here's another interactive AR
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experience called jigspace this placees
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interactive 3D models in your real
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environment so you know the neat one is
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of course a jet turbine tap to place it
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here you can throw pieces off of it I
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can walk through the interactive ones
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and at each stage I can just take pieces
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off throw them away take off this piece
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spin it around look at this little nose
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cone guy hypnotize yourself with it I
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mean look at that that looks like a
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real piece of spinning metal throw
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Formula 1 car in the middle of the room
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me me me get a close look at that
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steering
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wheel that's cool the screen is even
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reflective and I can annotate this as
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well draw 3D on it if I just want to so
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I can just
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graffiti on the car
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here what's that question
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mark this app is almost worth it just
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for that you can use this for training
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assembly of stuff demos marketing
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another one here for the space nerds
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space vision and right away it's
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throwing me into a model of the solar
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system this this isn't really to scale
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you know the you know the Earth isn't
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nearly that big especially compared to
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the Sun and you can see the moon is
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touching the Earth that would be a
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pretty big problem if that was actually
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the case but we see all the orbits here
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all the planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars
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and whoa way out there is Jupiter can I
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stand on the
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couch I mean look at that that's cool so
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we'll turn off scaling objects turn off
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scaling orbits and now you can see
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there's the
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sun that's how far away Mercury is and
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it's just a DOT like space is
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big man now if we want to fill this
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empty void here we can try Lowe's styles
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Studio I've always wanted a second
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kitchen directly around the corner from
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my first one so I'll explore this
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collection you can customize everything
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in this kitchen change these chairs
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around
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yes
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plants apples not green apples though
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those are horrible definitely New York
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Subway
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ceramic um slab
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got to love a good
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slab want this guy to match my
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slab I can save this to my board well we
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I've shown you a lot of games how about
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an app to track your games is called
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game track very fittingly in my library
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I can organize them into a wish list
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cued games games I've already completed
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I can organize them by platform I can
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look at what's popular what other people
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are playing Counter-Strike 2 I've heard
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of that one so that's game track it of
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course wouldn't be a new Apple platform
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without peal by James Thompson and this
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is an app that I really like to just
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bring close to me and just punch out in
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the air you know throw numbers around 45
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time there we go did you know that
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probably not few other productivity apps
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subjects if you are a student and a dorm
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I don't know what kind of student will
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be able to afford an apple Vision Pro
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but I can bring up a schedule here this
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is a pre-populated one each of these I
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can tap and it's like you know a little
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calendar it can populate my actual
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iCloud Calendar if I want it to I can
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look at my homework as well that is
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clearly not my actual GPA you know it's
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really easy to add a subject as well CS
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4560 that's
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green to me I can add a
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timetable location add it in right
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there now it's on my timetable Apple has
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some productivity apps as well I'm going
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to show you keynote just grab your
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keyboard if you want to start some work
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this is a presentation I've been working
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on how to become a cult leader as you
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can see 108 more slides to add before
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it's really finished but I'll show you
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what it's like adding another one
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here add another one of the these slides
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double tap to edit I'm going to call it
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build an
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elaborate Mansion so I'm just going to
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go to Safari here bring up some stock
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photos
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of a mansion what
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looks sufficiently cult leader
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billionaire I like the looks of that
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castle division pro has a full file
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browser so I can download attachments
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and open them up here
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and there we go and this has a lot of
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the full features of the real keynote
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app I have all the formatting options
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for
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styling editing the image I can add
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tables graphs I can animate things I can
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duplicate them I have cut copy paste
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undo and redo but here's the real killer
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feature CU I can rehearse this as well
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in a conference room or a theater
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setting and this is what I would see if
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I were giving my presentation you know I
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can I'm on a stage I've got the
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slideshow on a projector behind me I can
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see my current slide and my next slide a
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giant sprawling audience and just like
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real life nobody is attending I've got a
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little timer there tap to go forwards
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tap to go back and to show so I can
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switch to this conference room
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environment very similar you know I've
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got little room around me big windows
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screen behind me and I can confirm from
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going to WDC this is pretty much what
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Apple conference rooms look like so
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that's a general run through of all the
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neatest stuff you can try on a Vision
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Pro I'm deerin Jones with C of
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