The Best Apple Vision Pro Apps!

Summary

Technology YouTuber Travis Scott shares his 16 favorite apps for the newly released Apple Vision Pro augmented reality headset. He spotlights apps that take advantage of the headset's immersive 3D capabilities for areas like cooking, weather, gaming, art, meditation, and education. Standout apps highlighted include an interactive 3D recipe planner, a snarky AI weather app with a live 3D globe, classic iOS games now in 3D like Fruit Ninja, an app for tracing images to real-world surfaces, a digital chess board that renders pieces in 3D space, and a flight tracking app that shows airport terrain and air traffic in 3D.

Takeaways

• 😊 Travis shares his 16 favorite Apple Vision Pro apps after the first week of release
• 🍎 Popular categories include immersive games, creative tools, productivity, and education
• 🥘 Crouton is an impressive recipe app with 3D step-by-step cooking instructions
• ⛅ Carrot Weather has funny jokes and interactivity with a 3D globe visualization
• ✂️ Classic iOS game Cut the Rope is now in 3D with eye and pinch controls
• 🖌 DaVinci Eye lets you trace images in 3D space for art and creativity
• 🤯 Jigspace shows incredibly detailed 3D models like planes and cars
• 🛋 Lowe's Style Studio plans kitchen remodels in 3D
• 🎼 Synth Riders is a rhythm game using only hand gestures to slice blocks
• ✈️ Voyager displays live air traffic control data from airports globally

Q & A

How many native apps are available for the Apple Vision Pro at launch?

Apple says there are about 600 native apps available for the Vision Pro as of day one.

What types of apps are available for the Vision Pro?

There is a little bit of everything, from immersive entertainment to art to weather to games.

What does the Crouton app allow you to do?

Crouton is an immersive recipe app that allows for step-by-step instructions and detailed breakdowns of everything you need for a recipe shown in multiple windows.

Why does Travis think the Vision Pro could be useful for cooking?

It mixes real world use cases like cooking with a 3D immersive space, being able to show recipes and ingredients in a spatial way while still seeing your full environment as you cook.

What weather app does Travis recommend since Apple does not have a native weather app?

Travis recommends the Carrot weather app which has a full breakdown of current weather information and an interactive 3D Earth model.

How does the game Cut the Rope work on the Vision Pro?

Cut the Rope is fully 3D and immersive on the Vision Pro. You use your eyes and pinching gestures to cut the rope.

What does the Da Vinci Eye app allow you to do?

Da Vinci Eye allows you to take a 2D image and place it on a physical surface in your environment, change the opacity, and trace over it. You can also collaborate with others to make 3D murals.

What meditation app does Travis highlight?

Travis highlights the indle app which takes your real environment and transforms it into an immersive lightscape to help you meditate and focus.

What classic rhythm game is available on the Vision Pro?

Synth Riders is available, offering a Beat Saber/Guitar Hero-style rhythm game using just your hands and movements.

What does Travis compare the current Vision Pro apps to?

Travis compares the apps to the first generation iPad apps which were mostly novelties but improved dramatically over time. He expects Vision Pro apps to have a similar evolution.

Outlines

00:00

📺 Overview of favorite Vision Pro apps

The paragraph provides an introduction to the video, stating that it will highlight 16 favorite Vision Pro apps across categories like entertainment, art, weather, games, etc. It emphasizes the immersive capabilities of the device and how apps can blend real world use cases like cooking with 3D environments.

05:00

🌦️ Carrot weather app with attitude

This paragraph describes the Carrot weather app which shows current weather data in a visually compelling way using a 3D interactive globe. It allows customizing the personality/sassiness of the weather information and includes funny weather-related jokes.

10:01

🎮 Classic iOS games adapted for Vision Pro

The concluding paragraph reflects on how current Vision Pro apps are like early iPad apps, focused more on novelty rather than utility. It expects apps to significantly improve over time, becoming more practical and functional. The author requests feedback on favorite Vision Pro apps from viewers.

Keywords

💡Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro is a newly released device by Apple that offers a unique immersive experience through a series of native apps designed specifically for its platform. This device aims to blend the digital and physical worlds by providing users with a mix of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. The mention of the Apple Vision Pro being 'released to the wild' and having '600 native apps available' underscores its novelty and the broad interest in exploring its capabilities, particularly in terms of the apps developed to leverage its advanced technology.

💡Vision OS apps

Vision OS apps refer to applications specifically designed to run on the Apple Vision Pro's operating system, Vision OS. These apps are not merely adaptations of iPhone or iPad apps but are developed to utilize the immersive and interactive capabilities of the Vision Pro. The mention of 'Vision OS apps' highlights the specialized software ecosystem that is being built around the Apple Vision Pro, aimed at enhancing the user experience through immersive entertainment, art, weather applications, games, and more.

💡Crouton

Crouton is highlighted as an immersive recipe app for the Apple Vision Pro, offering step-by-step cooking instructions in a 3D immersive space. This app exemplifies how the Vision Pro can integrate digital content into real-world activities like cooking, allowing users to interact with recipes in a more engaging way. The detailed breakdowns and multiple windows for recipes within Crouton demonstrate the potential of AR technology to transform everyday tasks.

💡Carrot

Carrot is introduced as a third-party weather app with a unique, engaging twist. It provides weather forecasts with a humorous and customizable attitude, including jokes and a sassy tone. The app's standout feature is a full 3D Earth model that shows live weather data, which users can interact with in real time. Carrot's integration into the Apple Vision Pro's ecosystem illustrates the device's ability to present information in innovative and interactive ways, enhancing the user experience with humor and advanced graphics.

💡Cut the Rope

Cut the Rope is referenced as a classic iOS game that has been adapted into a fully 3D and immersive experience for the Apple Vision Pro. The game involves using eye movements and gestures to cut ropes and solve puzzles. This adaptation showcases how traditional mobile games can be transformed into new, engaging experiences with the Vision Pro's technology, leveraging its unique input methods (eyes and pinching gestures) to create a novel gameplay experience.

💡Da Vinci ey

Da Vinci ey is an app that enables users to project 2D images onto physical surfaces for tracing, as well as creating 3D murals using another device. This app demonstrates the creative potential of the Apple Vision Pro, blending digital artwork with the physical world. It showcases how artists and creatives can use the device to enhance their work by integrating AR technology into their creative processes.

💡Immersive experience

The term 'immersive experience' is central to the video's theme, referring to the ability of the Apple Vision Pro apps to create a sense of being deeply engaged or involved in a digital environment that blends with the physical world. Apps like Crouton, Carrot, and Da Vinci ey are highlighted as examples of how this technology can enhance activities such as cooking, checking the weather, and creating art by making them more interactive and engaging.

💡Mixed Reality

Mixed Reality (MR) is a key concept in the video, referring to the blending of physical and digital worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time. The Apple Vision Pro, through its apps and capabilities, is presented as a device that leverages MR to enhance various activities, such as cooking, learning, and gaming, by integrating digital content into the user's real-world environment.

💡Educational tool

The video discusses the potential of the Apple Vision Pro as an educational tool, illustrating how its apps can transform learning and teaching processes. Examples include exploring Mars with a life-size rover model or dissecting a 3D model of an airplane engine. These applications demonstrate the device's capacity to make educational content more engaging and interactive, offering students and educators new ways to explore complex subjects.

💡Spatial audio

Spatial audio is mentioned in relation to the Lungi app, indicating the use of sound that surrounds the user and changes based on their interactions and movements within the app. This technology contributes to the immersive experience by providing audio cues that mimic the real-world direction of sounds, enhancing the realism of the virtual environment. It shows how the Apple Vision Pro apps are not just visually immersive but also create an engaging auditory experience.

Highlights

Apple Vision Pro released, featuring 600 native apps on day one.

Crouton app offers immersive cooking instructions.

Carrot weather app introduces a sassy, interactive 3D Earth model.

Cut the Rope 3 brings classic game to 3D immersive experience.

Da Vinci Ey enables tracing and creating 3D murals.

Exploring Mars app showcases detailed Mars Rover in 3D.

Indle app transforms space into immersive meditation environment.

BetterHelp sponsored segment on mental health and therapy.

Game Room for life-size 3D chess and card games.

JigSpace presents functional 3D models for education and business.

Lowe's Style Studio for 3D kitchen remodeling.

Lungi app uses spatial audio for interactive experiences.

Mind Note for organizing thoughts in 3D space.

School app syncs with Google Classroom for organized learning.

Sky Guide for immersive constellation exploration.

Super Fruit Ninja brings classic game to immersive 3D.

Synth Riders offers a controller-free rhythm game experience.

Voyager app visualizes live Air Traffic Control data in 3D.

Reflecting on the potential evolution of Vision Pro apps.

Transcripts

a portion of today's video is sponsored

by better help hey everyone Travis here

and the Apple Vision Pro has been

released to the wild for a few days now

and with that I wanted to check out all

the available apps that are out there in

the app store and pick some of my

favorites Apple says there's about 600

native apps available for the Vision Pro

as of day one and I'm sure that's going

to grow significantly over time those

are Apple Vision Pro Vision OS apps not

just iPhone and iPad apps moved over to

the device there's a little bit of

everything in there from immersive

entertainment to Art to weather to games

so I wanted to go through a few and pick

my favorites so here's 16 of my favorite

Apple Vision Pro apps the first app we

have here on this list is Crouton and

this is a very cool immersive recipe app

it allows for step-by-step instructions

and detailed breakdowns of everything

you need for a recipe that's shown in

this app and multiple windows and this

is going to be super helpful for someone

like me that absolutely knows nothing

about cooking a lot of people have

questioned the use case of this device

and I think that this is one of those

examples where it mixes real world world

use cases like cooking with a 3D

immersive space being able to show you

your recipes and everything that's going

on within that recipe in your

ingredients list being able to check

things off as you go and follow a

step-by-step guide while still seeing

your full environment as you're cooking

next up is Carrot which is a weather app

with spice apple does not have their own

weather app so I had to default to a

thirdparty one this one has a full

breakdown of everything you need to know

about the current weather especially

since it's raining in LA right now but

it has all the things you need to know

in the app itself you can choose how

Sassy or not you want it to be and it

has some funny jokes to go along with

the weather my favorite part about this

app is the full 3d Earth model that

shows live weather data and you can

interact with it in real time super cool

next up is Cut the Rope three and this

brings me back to Classic IOS games Cut

the Rope is one of those classic iOS

apps that I spent many many many hours

on my iPhone 5 playing back when app

games were kind of new and fresh with

touchscreen controls but this one is

fully 3D and immersive and you use your

eyes and your pinching to cut the rope

now as we go through the launch of the

Apple Vision Pro we are going to make a

ton of more content breaking this device

down even further so make sure to

subscribe an app that I found to be very

interesting to utilize your real world

space in 3D immersive is Da Vinci ey

this app allows you to take a 2D image

that's stored on your device and place

it on a physical surface and change the

opacity so you could use it to trace I

think this idea is really cool but in

addition to that you can actually use

another device and make murals in 3D now

as far as art and creative apps this is

only scratching the surface and I'm sure

as time goes on utilizing this for

Creative purposes is going to be awesome

now the 3d effect of these displays in

this thing is super convincing and the

best I've seen out of any VR headset so

far and exploring Mars is a great

example of that this app is very similar

to jigspace which I will talk about in a

minute this app shows a full 3d working

even life size if you want it to be Mars

Rover the coolest thing here is not only

is it functional but you can pick out

each piece and it gives you a

description on what that part does and I

think things like this for Education are

going to be super crazy going forward

obviously this thing is going to need to

get a little bit cheaper to make that

happen but we can hope the next app is

called indle and I could find this to be

very useful for those that meditate it

basically takes the world around you and

makes it fully immersive this app is

very cool as it completely changes over

your 3D space into light rays so you can

really focus and feel like you're out in

the sun you can set timers on how long

you want this to go on for and it looks

like there's going to be even more added

to this app in the future and another

app that I find to be super useful is

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game room is the closest thing that I

will get to full life-size Harry Potter

chest and this thing is really cool not

only can you play other card games on

this app but it also gives you a full 3D

platform that sits right in front of you

as you play your game and it still blows

my mind that you can just look at the

board look at a Tres piece tap your

fingers together and move it across the

board it's honestly magic so if you

looking to play solitire or chess this

is definitely a cool way to play it in a

3D space now I mentioned this before and

this app is called jigspace and I think

it's one of the coolest apps available

on the Vision Pro as of yet this app

shows 3D models and it seems like it's

going to be mostly utilized for

businesses but the two models that I

looked at so far blew my mind most

notably the airplane engine and an F1

car not only are these actual two size

scale models but they are fully

functional and you can take each piece

apart similar to the Mars rover but in

this case I can actually pull a piece of

the engine out and look at it and the

same thing with the car I can look at

individual components and remove it out

of the car it's honestly what I think

for the future of this device is going

to look like being able to experience a

mixed reality where you're looking at

something that's not in real life but in

your real space and it's so cool and I

did have some funny moments with both of

these apps that we posted both on

Instagram and Tik Tok so make sure to

follow us there and this car is

literally in the middle of the office if

we parked a car here this is how big it

would

be now there were a couple apps in the

App Store that I was surprised to see

there so fast and one of those was the

Lowe's style Studio this app shows a

fully 3D modeled kitchen and you can

select from a ton of different layouts

and within that change out each

individual component from something that

is available from Lowe's so if you're

really trying to plan that kitchen

remodel you may want to grab your Vision

Pro for that Lungi is a very cool app

that not only uses a mixed reality arv

VR experience but also has spatial audio

as well these floating blobs appear

depending on which session you choose

and honestly at first when I tapped on

it and it flew away from me and then I

tapped on another one and it flew behind

me and there was full spatial audio I

thought that this was a really cool idea

and I was sitting there for probably

about 15 minutes just throwing the gongs

around the room now as an educational

tool I also think that the Vision Pro is

going to be a very functional device as

you can have so many windows open all at

the same time time and I think mind note

is a very cool way of using your space

this allows you to use your space and

literally throw whatever's on your mind

into different nodes that appear in 3D

space and I think for someone like me

that really needs to get all of their

brain dumps out when they have ideas

could be very functional in a

educational environment or if you're

just trying to plan out video ideas like

me next up is an app called school that

you could use for school I think this

app school could work really well in

tandem with mind note showing all of

your class classes all of your

assignments and it can sync with Google

Classroom so you can see all of your

live data and I think someone that's

trying to be very organized especially

if they're going to school could utilize

both of these really well sky guide is a

classic IOS app that utilizes the

gyroscope to look at constellations and

the best way previously to use this was

with an iPad now with the Vision Pro you

can fully be immersed in all the

constellations looking all the way

around you up at the sky and be able to

see those in real time and I feel like

this gives you a much more interesting

view of the stars and constellations

compared to an iPad another classic iOS

game that made it over to the Vision Pro

is super Fruit Ninja Fruit Ninja was up

there with Cut the Rope and Angry Birds

for my iPhone 4 pastimes for gaming and

this thing is super fun now of course

there are no remotes or controllers with

this and with the Vision Pro you pretty

much only use your hands and your eyes

and you can slice your fruit just by

slicing your hand and I had a really

good time with this of course in your

space you want to give yourself plenty

of room to utilize this cuz you're going

to be moving around and all of it

happens in your space even with the 3D

Sensei last game on this list is synth

Riders now one of my favorite

experiences with another VR headset was

The Meta Quest 2 and using it with a

game called beat saer and this is like

beat saber with Guitar Hero but only

with your hands now not having any

controllers and only using your hands I

thought was going to be a very weird

experience but after really playing it

for two songs I got used to it right

away and all things considered moving

your your hands around you can stay on

beat and it's really responsive so if

you're looking for a fun game that's

like beat saer or a guitar Heroes rhythm

game that you can play on The Vision Pro

this one is it now last up is an app

called Voyager now this app pulls live

Air Traffic Control Data and even shows

you full-on terrain of that airport that

you select and all the flights that are

arriving and departing from that

specific airport it's so cool now if you

tap on a specific flight from that

airport it'll actually even show you the

altitude and speed of that aircraft so

for those flight gurus out there you

might find this one quite fun so

wrapping up this video some apps are

more interesting than others and the

thing that I have to keep in mind here

is that these are basically the launch

apps from the first week of the App

Store on the Vision Pro so the apps that

we're going to have now compared to 5

years from now are going to be insanely

different and the apps that are

available right now really remind me of

when the first gen iPad came out it was

a lot of novelty stuff especially with

games using the larger touchcreen at the

time but as time went on multiple years

later 14 years later it's gotten

significantly better and I'm sure in

June at wwec Apple's going to show off

Vision OS 2 and they're going to have

some app developers up there that show

off some really cool stuff with some new

functionality but until then I'll keep

my eyes peeled on the app store and see

if there's going to be even more that

comes out as the weeks go by what are

your thoughts on the apps that I listed

today and is there any that you

experienced yourself that I should have

mentioned comment down below your

thoughts on apps for the Apple Vision

Pro thank you so much for watching this

is Travis and have a good

night