Apple's $3,499 face computer has been on shelves for a while now, and the app situation remains the elephant in the very expensive room.
The good news: developers are still shipping stuff.
The bad news: a depressing number of those apps feel like someone discovered 3D space last Tuesday and decided to build an entire product around waving at floating rectangles.
Spatial video editing, 3D anatomy explorers, and a handful of immersive sports apps have figured out that "putting a screen on your face" is not, by itself, a feature.
These apps use depth and presence in ways a flat monitor physically cannot.
Watching a replay from inside the play, or rotating a human heart in your living room, actually justifies the hardware.
I'm talking about the "productivity" apps that are just a to-do list floating in your kitchen.
The meditation apps where you stare at a slowly breathing orb while your neck quietly files a complaint.
The endless parade of "immersive experiences" that are three minutes long and cost more than a Chipotle bowl.
At some point, "it exists in spatial computing" stopped being a selling point and became a warning label.
The real tell is how people actually use the thing.
Ask an owner what they do with it daily and you'll get a lot of mumbling about movies on a plane and maybe some Mac mirroring.
The App Store is stuffed, but the home screen stays suspiciously empty.
Turns out a killer app needs to kill something other than your budget and your willingness to look normal in public.
Apple keeps promising the ecosystem will mature, and to be fair, hardware usually outruns software by a year or two.
The iPhone was a brick with no App Store once too.
But the iPhone didn't cost as much as a used Honda, and it didn't require strapping a hot ski goggle to your skull for the privilege of checking email in 3D.
None of this means the Vision Pro is doomed.
It means the apps need to stop being proof-of-concepts with a subscription tier and start solving problems people actually have.
Until then, the most immersive experience remains watching your bank account recover.
The verdict from here: if you already own one, dig past the front page and the good stuff is in there, buried under a mountain of floating to-do lists.
Final Thoughts
If you don't own one, you're not missing a revolution yet, you're missing an expensive beta test with a really nice screen.