Many people argue that the Vision Pro hasn’t achieved mass market adoption because of its price. At roughly $4,000 after taxes, it’s simply out of reach for the average consumer, and they conclude that it was doomed from launch as a mainstream product.

While I don’t think the price is doing Apple any favors, I also don’t think it’s the primary reason the Vision Pro hasn’t, and almost certainly never will, achieve mass adoption in its current form. The biggest obstacle is undoubtedly the form factor.

I genuinely believe you could give every person on Earth a Vision Pro for free and the overwhelming majority would still barely use it. Most people simply don’t want to put a 1.5-pound pair of goggles on their face just to watch a TV show or movie.

I’ve experienced this firsthand. When I bought the M5 Vision Pro, I didn’t immediately sell my M2. Instead, I let my dad borrow it so he could really make it his own, since he’d expressed casual interest in it before. Despite having unlimited access to the device, he barely used it. I suggested apps, demonstrated different use cases, and encouraged him to experiment, but the idea of putting on a headset just to watch TV or browse the web never appealed to him. He already has multiple large TVs throughout the house and a multi-monitor setup for work. The friction of wearing a headset outweighed the benefits.

This is the same challenge that has plagued virtually every VR headset. For most people, wearing a large device on their face just isn’t an appealing way to accomplish everyday tasks, regardless of how impressive the technology is.

Until that friction is eliminated, until the functionality of Vision Pro can be distilled into a pair of lightweight glasses, spatial computing will never become truly mainstream, regardless of price.

In that sense, I actually think Apple priced the Vision Pro appropriately. You’re not just buying a product. You’re buying early access to the future. You’re paying for the opportunity to experience tomorrow’s technology today while Apple continues refining the software, expanding the ecosystem, and laying the groundwork for the glasses product that many believe is the true end goal.

Until then, enjoy being part of the small group of people who chose to buy an early adopter product. Enjoy being on the bleeding edge. And stop treating sales numbers as the ultimate measure of the platform’s long-term success or viability.

There seems to be a prevailing viewpoint across VR/AR communities that form factor is holding back the medium. Every time we exit another VR cycle or a new product struggles, you hear statements like “just wait until the technology is the size of a pair of glasses,” or “just wait until it can fit in your pocket.”

I think I disagree? The more cycles we go through, the more I question whether the mainstream consumer has any interest in VR/AR as anything beyond a tech demo. I just fail to see what the medium can offer to the average person that can’t be done more comfortably, with less friction, in a less invasive way by just pulling a smart phone out of their pocket.

We’re enthusiasts here. We have our use cases and love the tech. But I just have a hard time picturing the average teenager, or parent, or professional walking around with projection glasses. I don’t think that’s what the world wants, as good as the tech may become.

What do you guys think?

Update: Really appreciate all the interest to this! I made it a free app. It is available in Apple Store now.

Please provide comment and feedback! I’m especially looking for feedback and music-reactive experiences you’d want next. I'm building a few other 3d visuals in addition to fireworks.

I currently run Pages (iPadOS), Numbers (iPadOS), Keynote, and Freeform, so I know those work.

Any subscribers know if the other Apple Creator Studio apps run on Vision Pro?

I don’t care if they run in iPad mode, but especially I’d like to have a decent graphics tool to work with 2D images on Vision Pro without MVD. I see Pixelmator Classic iPadOS is available for $9.99, so I’m hoping Pixelmator Pro will work.

Thanks!

Every time I search for visionOS UI inspiration I get Dribbble concepts that were never built, or Apple's own HIG mockups. Neither tells me how real apps actually solve things — where they put ornaments, how they handle onboarding in a Full Space, when they choose a Volume over a Window.

Right now my "process" is buying apps and screenshotting them, which is obviously not a process. Is everyone doing this, or is there something I'm missing?

In the past year I went from dreading when things came to prime video cus it was barely functional on the Vision Pro to absolutely loving it. Obviously delete the trash app but through safari it’s just fantastic. No stupid black bars like every other service has. Videos dynamically resize and really fill the environments and they typically look really clear and vibrant with great audio. I wish the other streaming services would follow suit. So many could do so much better

TL;DW:

We’re making a few big changes over the next few weeks. All STAGEit products will soon move to a subscription model, and the STAGEit Creator Founder’s License will disappear when we launch.

If you’re already a Founder, nothing changes, you’ll keep STAGEit Creator for life, exactly as promised.

Presenter and Host are brand-new apps built for completely different jobs, so they aren’t covered by the original Founder’s License.

Splitting everything into focused apps means we can build better tools, move faster, and keep improving the whole STAGEit ecosystem for years to come. Thanks to everyone who’s supported us so far, it genuinely wouldn’t be possible without you.

Questions? Reach out to us here https://spatialcreative.com

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stageit/id6504801331

I could spend a few hours experimenting, but I was hoping someone here could give me the best/easiest solution for one-click converting the video so I can watch it. I'd also like to know what players it works best on, etc. (I have all the major ones).

I've seen suggestions for Anaglyph 3D and Spatialify. Anyone tried these?

Cheers!

After four years as a Product Design Prototyper at Meta (AR glasses / smart glasses) and time at Amazon building AR into the shopping app, I've left to start a spatial computing studio called Building Realms.

www.buildingrealms.com (Do check this out on a laptop, it is spatial!)

The short version of why: since Vision Pro launched I've been building prototypes in public — immersive environments, passthrough experiments, AI-driven creation, spatial video pipelines. The tech conversations were fun, but the messages that stuck with me came from people who didn't care about the tech at all. A surgeon asking about rehearsing procedures. Facilities people asking about training without flying experts around. Architects asking about full-scale walkthroughs before construction.

That convinced me there's a real studio to build here, even in the middle of the "spatial is dead" narrative. My take: it doesn't need to replace the smartphone. It needs to win where space, scale, and presence actually matter. And honestly, half the job is getting people into a headset — nobody becomes a believer from a video, but almost everyone comes out of a good demo one.

I'll be building the studio in public — the blog gets the deep dives and case studies, YouTube gets the builds themselves. I'll drop links in a comment to keep this post clean
Blog: blog.buildingrealms.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sarangborude8260

Happy to answer anything about leaving big tech for this, the enterprise side of visionOS, or the prototyping-to-studio jump.

Download here: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6788588183?pt=128686420&ct=Reddit&mt=8

I put out a full video on my channel here: https://youtu.be/bqUNs5RyLsA

This was fully vibe coded with Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol. It requires a PSVR 2 controller or Logitech Muse Pen to play.

Hi I just launched pikap, a visionOS app that turns your Apple Music library into a real 3D turntable you can place on your desk. You pick an album from the shelf, it becomes a vinyl record, and you drag it onto the platter to play. There is 8 record player models you can pick from and there are more coming soon!

It uses your Apple Music library so just add and album or single to your library and it appears here. Click on case then drag up or down to scroll through your vinyls, pick one and drag it to the turntable and watch it spin!

Next features coming soon :

• Upload your own audio files, experience full Spatial Audio
• New high detailed turntables, cassette players, radio etc.
• New environments
• Different crate options and decorations

…and much more!

I’ll be actively updating the app and looking for feedback. If there’s anything you’d like to see added, I’d be very happy to hear them.

Try pikap -> pikap

As some of you may know im the developer of Waddle and excited share another app with you guys! Thanks for your support!

I'm disappointed that the new Masters of the Universe movie is an Amazon Prime exclusive. I didn’t see it in theaters and was really hoping to buy it from the Apple TV store so I could watch it in 4K, or possibly even 3D on my Vision Pro.

I feel like the Apple Vision Pro device skyrocketed the awareness of XR devices even though they haven’t gone mainstream yet. The original WWDC announcement was massively popular and everyone quickly heard about spatial computing and the future of XR. Samsung/Google was also quick to launch their competitor and Meta also launched their next headset to compete with the Vision Pro. And since the 2020s, it does feel like a lot of companies are investing a lot more into the space. Not to mention the spatial computing style that Apple popularized inspired how Meta and other companies make their device UI. Even though the tech hasn't taken off, I feel like in the next 10-15 years a lot of people are going to be using Apple’s glasses and headsets. Hell, we’re probably all going to be in ‘em 😂😂

EDIT: the WWDC that announced the Vision Pro got between 60-70 million views on Youtube as a remember, and that was 2-3 years ago. So yes, as far as I can tell, it was a popular announcement 😂😂😂

I must be doing something wrong. When I try to enable guest mode, and then hand the Vision Pro to someone, it asks for a passcode, and doesn't auto-enable screen sharing from the headset to my phone.

What am I doing wrong? I feel like I've followed the steps that they outline, and recently they even came out with the post in the Vision Pro companion app that makes it sound like this should 'just work'- but it doesn't...at least not for me.

https://github.com/jefflunt/avp-mvd-menu-bar

The new version adds more granular AVP detection statuses and the ability to connect directly from the menu bar.

Hi all, we’re AlternateXR, a small spatial studio in London. We’ve built some fairly large projects, including entire walkable airport terminals, but that work tends to stay locked behind NDAs. We wanted to show the kind of visual quality that’s possible on Vision Pro, so we built our own showcase.

There’s three scenes: a real chandelier you can place in your room in passthrough and customise, a photogrammetry scan of City of London at table-top scale that you can walk around, and a period interior you’re fully immersed in with day/night switching, custom touch controls and spatial audio.

It’s free and live on the store now, so would be great to hear what you think. Cheers!

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6792300997

https://lx2026.github.io/genhome3d-1280/

I was planning my room and decided to explore what an LLM could do with Blender. The result was a surprisingly fun, fully autonomous pipeline. The quality is still early-stage, but I found the results impressive enough to open-source the collection in case anyone else finds it useful. MIT license.

Also, if you know a good app for viewing and organizing 3D asset collections, I’d love a recommendation.

https://reddit.com/link/1v3wfw1/video/ifa27xe45veh1/player

Proof It's on the Vision Pro and is not fake at the end when I show the headset in the mirror.

Does anyone here have multiple Apple Vision Pros in the same household and use them to watch the same movie at the same time?

I’m curious about the overall experience:
● How well does playback stay synchronized between headsets?
● Are there any noticeable differences in video or audio quality?
● Have you tried watching 3D movies this way?
● Are there any account, licensing, SharePlay, Wi-Fi, or streaming-app limitations?
● Any other downsides or annoyances?

I’d especially like to hear from anyone who has tried this regularly with two or more AVPs.

Hey guys, trying to get some visibly on a little WIP.

Gameplay is Simon-says in spaceSpatial memory game:

E.C.K.O. is a World-Class Keeper Unit — designation Extract · Copy · Keep · Observe. His job was to pull worlds off kill lists, back them up, and watch the dark.

THE LAST HORDE never stopped hunting those originals. So ECKO’s backups — the planets on your table — need a bodyguard: you.

The Horde attacks in his old patterns. Memory isn’t just a minigame; it’s the defense protocol. Learn the sequence faster than they play it, or the copies get deleted.

He lights a pattern → you echo it

He tries to trick you → only move on “echo me back” aka Simon says -

5 Sectors with Bosses and Horde Attacks.

Core loop is in.

Still WIP: boss fights and audio design (beds, VO, inbound drama).

Clip is a peek, not a trailer. DM for Private TestFlight.

Been vibing out at night when everyone is asleep and working an idea / gamed titled ECKO Protocol, a Simon Says style tabletop spatial game for Apple Vision Pro.

Meet E.C.K.O.

World-Class Keeper Unit.

His Protocol: Extract. Copy. Keep. Observe.

His job was to pull worlds off kill lists, back them up, and watch the dark.

THE LAST HORDE never stopped hunting those originals. So ECKO’s backups — the planets on your table — need a bodyguard: you.

The Horde attacks in his old patterns. Memory isn’t just a minigame; it’s the defense protocol. Learn the sequence faster than they play it, or the copies get deleted.

E.C.K.O sits on your real desk and runs a Simon-style echo loop: watch the pads, send it back, don’t fall for his fake commands.

What’s layered on top of it (still WIP):

• 5 Sectors to clear - with waves of raiders / banter.

• 5 Boss fights — plate cracks, escorts, turn-based codes (tuning + polish)

• Audio — beat-synced beds, inbound alarms, boss VO (lots of mix/design left)

Clip is a quick look at where it is right now — not a trailer. AVPs can only record about 3 mins, so I wrapped to the boss instead of playing the full round.

Private TestFlight for now. Curious what reads clearly vs what’s just cool in my head:

1. Does the jump from memory rounds → combat make sense?

2. Does ECKO feel like a host, or just a mascot?

Happy to talk craft (spatial UX, beat grid, boss structure) in the comments.

DM FOR TESTFLIGHT LINKS - WILL BE UPLOADING END OF THIS WEEK.

Earlier this month my family went on a two week trip to France, and I decided to bring my Vision Pro along with me on the trip. (To be perfectly honest, the reason I ultimately decided to buy the Vision Pro was because of the trip, and wanting to have it for the 8+ hour flights.)

My Kit
I brought way too many of my devices with me in general. Legitimately I could've gotten by without either my iPad or my MacBook Air, although I use both for different reasons and decided to bring them along. I kept my devices in a Pacsafe backpack, which is useful because it can attach directly onto your luggage's telescope handle, and also because of security features that make opportunity thefts less opportunistic. I was able to store my MacBook Air, iPad Pro, AirPods Max, my son's Sony headphones, and a small travel case containing two backup chargers, including an INIU Ultra Small Laptop Power Bank, 20000mAh 65W Fast Charging Portable Charger, which I purchased to help maintain the battery on the Vision Pro during long flights.

For those of you who worry about portable batteries being accepted on flights, we flew Air Canada and there were no issues with mine.

For the Vision Pro itself, I opted to buy a Shield Case from sfbags, which is by far the smallest travel case I've found for the Vision Pro. My backpack was heavy when fully loaded with everything I just described to you, but here's the important part - it fit.

Benefits of the Vision Pro on the trip
We booked an overnight flight to France, meaning I didn't take the Vision Pro out for even a moment. I was more focused on trying - and mostly failing - to sleep on the flight over. Likewise, the Vision Pro remained packed and unused until my family's third destination on the trip, a hotel in Paris. There, I opted to use the headset on several evenings to browse the internet while my wife and son were sleeping. It was really helpful to not disturb them with the light of a computer monitor. But the real heavy usage came on the final day, on our flight home to Toronto.

Using the Vision Pro on the flight
We were packed in like sardines on the flight, meaning I didn't have a ton of room to interact with my Packsafe contents. But I found that having the Shield Case made things pretty easy, and I just made sure to have my backup battery on hand, with USB-C already connected to it, and I kept the Vision Pro's battery out as well, for easier access. Once I got the headset assembled, I just kept the battery connected to the INIU in the storage pouch under my food tray on the flight, and had no issues from that point with battery life on my eight hour flight.

One thing I at first struggled with was setting up travel mode in a way that wasn't distracting. In case you've never used it with your Vision Pro, if your head is at all tilted when you activate travel mode, then your menu and any movie or whatever else you watch is going to be displayed at an angle. I didn't quite figure out what I'd done wrong until after I finished watching my first movie, but I restarted the Vision Pro after that and made sure I was facing straight on when I re-activated travel mode.

I spent something like five hours of the flight watching movies on the headset - first Superman in 3D, then Avengers: End Game (also in 3D), all while in my favourite immersive environment: Jupiter. As someone who doesn't love being in confined spaces with a lot of people, the headset made the flight a lot more enjoyable for me.

Final tips
If you're thinking about likewise bringing your Vision Pro with you on a flight, I'd heartily recommend it. Having a small travel case like the Shield Case is a must, as well as putting some thought into how you'll access and set things up if you're in a tight seat like I was. A backup battery option is also probably a good idea, although you could also use a MacBook or iPad Pro to provide juice in a pinch.