The Best Apple Vision Pro Apps!
Summary
TLDRTechnology 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
📺 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.
🌦️ 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.
🎮 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.
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Keywords
💡Apple Vision Pro
💡Vision OS apps
💡Crouton
💡Carrot
💡Cut the Rope
💡Da Vinci ey
💡Immersive experience
💡Mixed Reality
💡Educational tool
💡Spatial audio
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
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