Apple's Vision Pro launched with a killer app lineup that included... looking at your own photos in a floating rectangle.
Six months later, developers have responded with the innovation the platform truly needed: a way to browse LinkedIn in spatial computing.
The App Store for Apple's ski-goggle-shaped headset now hosts a respectable catalog, and by respectable I mean "your dentist's waiting room magazine rack." There's a meditation app where you sit in a virtual forest and pay $9.99 a month to feel calm about the $3,500 you just spent.
There's a productivity suite that lets you arrange four spreadsheets in three-dimensional space, which is genuinely useful if your job is "being watched by venture capitalists." The breakout hit, according to the twelve people who own this thing, appears to be a dinosaur experience where a T-rex walks through your living room.
Users report it's breathtaking for approximately ninety seconds, after which you remember you could have watched Jurassic Park on a $200 TV and had enough left over for groceries.
Let's talk about the actual apps people are using.
Streaming services showed up with "spatial" versions that are just regular video on a big virtual screen, which is how TVs have worked since 1954.
Microsoft brought Office, because nothing says "the future of computing" like editing a PowerPoint while your neck slowly fuses into a question mark.
Apple keeps insisting the Vision Pro is not a VR headset, which is technically true in the same way a hot dog is not a sandwich.
Developers got the message and mostly stayed away, leaving a library that makes the Wii U look like a cultural touchstone.
There's a genuinely cool app category emerging, though: spatial video calls where everyone appears as a floating head.
It's like being in a meeting with a boardroom full of haunted portraits.
Early adopters describe it as "intimate" and "slightly terrifying," which honestly sounds like most family gatherings.
Meanwhile, Meta's Quest 3 costs $500 and runs thousands of games, but sure, keep telling yourself the Vision Pro is for "work." The most-used app on any headset remains the one that shows you a clock, and Apple has successfully reinvented that for the low, low price of a used Honda Civic. **Our take:** The Vision Pro app ecosystem is in that awkward toddler phase where everything is impressive and nothing is useful.
If you bought one, congratulations on your very expensive developer kit.
Final Thoughts
Everyone else can wait for the sequel, when Apple hopefully figures out what this thing is actually for.