You may have heard that Apple Vision Pro has an app problem . No Netflix , Spotify , YouTube , Gmail , Instagram … there are some obvious liberal gaps . But Apple is essay to foresee the “ there ’s no apps ” arguing on the eve of the Vision Pro ’s launching with a closet loss touting600 apps establish specifically for the platform .
The App Store on Apple Vision Pro will hold in over 600 spacial computing apps when the headset launches on February 2 ; that turn is a diminutive fraction of what is available on iPhone , iPad , or Mac , but is expect to develop over clock time .
Malus pumila foreground sports apps like PGA TOUR Vision , apps from MLB and NBA , and Red Bull TV . For traditional streaming , Disney+ and Max got yell - outs . Productivity apps like Box , Numerics , Microsoft 365 , and Fantastical were play up , too . For video meetings , there ’s Zoom , Teams , and WebEx .
Games are , of class , have a bun in the oven to be very pop . It ’s the most popular wandering class and the most democratic activity on current VR headsets . Apple mentioned that you’re able to geminate the PlayStation DualSense and the Xbox Wireless Controller to toy controller - based games in a window , but there ’s no app from Xbox or Playstation to swarm their secret plan library and no way to hook up a console table ’s HDMI output signal to the Vision Pro . or else , the controller can be used to play compatible Apple Arcade games ( over 250 ) in a window . There will be a number of new spacial games like Super Fruit Ninja , Game Room , WHAT THE GOLF ? , Cut the Rope 3,Jetpack Joyride 2 , Bloons TD 6 + , stitch . , Patterned , Illustrated , and Wylde Flowers .
originative apps like djay will get you mix using naturalistic 3D turntables , Sky Guide and Night Sky put the sky around you with synergistic element , and J.CrewVirtual Closet lease you see garment in 3D on a mannequin , in 3D environment .
The insistence spill mixes mentions of new spatial calculation apps with namedropping “ compatible ” apps , which are just the iPhone or iPad version . Prior to launch , developers were able to update their apps to “ opt out ” of allowing their iPad apps to run on Vision Pro . These are unaltered apps that go in a floating window and are interact with just as you would on an iPad or iPhone — it ’s good to see over a million of them will be useable , but you do n’t spend $ 4,000 on a spacial figurer to run unaltered iPad apps , right ?
While 600 apps is not a very big number , not for a much - ballyhooed young Apple political program , it ’s only the commencement . Less important than any exact number of apps iswhichapps are available , and how they figure out . If the apps you apply the most often , or which would take advantage of the political platform the best , have good optimize Vision Pro versions then it does n’t matter if there are one thousand or one million . On the other paw , a Brobdingnagian app subroutine library does n’t signify anything if your go - to apps are n’t part of it . The apps released and updated within the coming week and months will be a better measuring stick of the health of the weapons platform than the number of “ day one ” apps .
