Apple's $3,500 face computer launched with the usual suspects—movie theater apps, meditation apps, a dinosaur demo that made everyone cry on YouTube.
Six months later, the App Store for visionOS has drifted into stranger territory.
The headset's most-downloaded apps are still the boring ones.
Streaming services, a web browser, and whatever productivity tool your boss keeps emailing about.
But dig past the top charts and you'll find a genuine ecosystem of weirdos building for a device most people can't afford.
Take the app that turns your living room into a virtual aquarium you can walk through.
Or the one that puts a giant clock on your wall because your phone is now strapped to your face, apparently.
Someone built a virtual pet that lives in your house and judges your furniture.
There's a karaoke app that renders your terrible singing as floating lyric bubbles, which is either genius or a war crime depending on your neighbors.
Productivity apps that let you pin a dozen browser windows around your desk like a hoarder with a 3D printer.
Turns out strapping a computer to your skull is great for people who want MORE monitors, not fewer.
Who could have predicted that the killer app for spatial computing is... more computing.
Developers are clearly having fun with the hardware before the install base justifies the effort.
Apple keeps shipping updates that make the passthrough cameras slightly less nauseating, and indie coders keep uploading passion projects that cost $4.99 and exist mostly because they could.
Is any of this worth buying a Vision Pro for?
The headset is still a developer kit wearing a consumer price tag, and your neck will file a formal complaint after hour two.
But the app situation tells you something Apple won't: the platform is alive, and the people building for it aren't waiting for permission.
The real test comes when Apple releases a cheaper model, assuming that rumor ever stops being a rumor.
If the apps stay this weird, the mainstream version might actually have a shot.
If developers get bored and wander off to build AR filters for Instagram again, we'll know exactly how this movie ends.
For now, Vision Pro owners are essentially beta testers paying premium prices to live in the future's unfinished basement.
Final Thoughts
Either way, the weird apps are the only honest signal we've got. **The bottom line:** if you already dropped four figures on a headset that makes you look like a ski goggle enthusiast, download the strange stuff.