Apple's $3,500 face computer has been out for a while now, and the app situation is… something.
While the company keeps promising that spatial computing is the future, the actual Vision Pro App Store is starting to look like a flea market run by people who just discovered they can charge money for vibes.
There are genuinely useful apps in there, sure.
But the ones going viral on Reddit and TikTok are the ones nobody asked for and everyone secretly wants.
Think less "revolutionary productivity tool" and more "why is my living room full of floating anime girls." Take the apps that turn your home into a personal IMAX.
A few developers have built theater experiences that let you watch movies on a screen the size of a billboard, complete with sticky-floor ambiance and overpriced virtual popcorn.
Users report it's genuinely great until you realize you're still alone in your apartment wearing ski goggles.
Apps that pin infinite browser windows around your head, letting you work like some kind of cyberpunk accountant.
In theory, you become a multitasking god.
In practice, you spend twenty minutes adjusting window positions and another ten trying not to throw up from the motion.
One Reddit user summed it up: "I got more done on my laptop in ten minutes than in an hour of pretending I was in Minority Report." The fitness apps deserve their own category.
Some promise to gamify your workout by spawning virtual coaches who yell at you in 3D.
Others put you on a virtual bike path through the Alps while you pedal on a stationary bike in your garage.
Reviews are split between "this is actually motivating" and "I hit my ceiling fan and now I have trust issues." And then we get to the truly cursed stuff.
Apps that spawn giant spiders crawling on your walls.
Apps that let you "decorate" your home with floating NFTs nobody wants.
Apps that turn your face into a digital avatar so unsettling that your own mother would file a restraining order.
The Vision Pro may be a premium device, but its app ecosystem is happily cosplaying as a Steam early access graveyard.
The company launched a $3,500 product with a handful of flagship experiences and basically told developers to figure it out.
That's how you end up with a store where a meditation app sits next to something called "Fart Spatial" that does exactly what you think it does.
Premium hardware, dollar-store software selection.
The movie-watching and photo-viewing experiences are legitimately impressive, and a few spatial apps show real promise.
But for every killer app, there are fifty that exist purely because someone with a developer account had a weird idea and zero supervision.
The bigger question is whether any of this matters.
Vision Pro sales are reportedly soft, and the people who own one seem to either love it or use it as a very expensive paperweight on their desk.
The app store's chaos might be a feature, not a bug—a sign that developers are experimenting freely.
Or it might just be a sign that nobody knows what this thing is for yet. **Our take:** The Vision Pro remains a solution in search of a problem, and its app store is a mirror reflecting that confusion.
If you already own one, embrace the chaos—the weird apps are honestly the most fun part.
Final Thoughts
Just maybe move the stationary bike away from the ceiling fan.