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Apple Makes It Easier to Browse Vision Pro Apps Outside of the Headset

Searching for Vision Pro apps when not actually wearing the thing has been a hassle since day one. Now Apple has added a nifty new search function to its App Store web portal which makes it a lot easier to browse and download stuff. Apple launched its Vision Pro web portal a while ago, but […]

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6. Mai 2024

Apple Confirms 1,000+ Vision Pro Native Apps Now Available

Need a floating calculator on your living room wall? There’s an app for that. Well, actually there are now several apps for that on Vision Pro, as the company confirmed its first mixed reality headset is now packing over a thousand visionOS-native apps. Apple’s SVP of Marketing Greg Joswiak posted on X (formerly Twitter) recently that the […]

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19. Februar 2024

TikTok is the First Big Social Media Platform to Launch a Native Vision Pro App

Vision Pro launched with over a million iOS apps earlier this month alongside a little over 600 native apps created specifically for visionOS. That number has grown steadily, although the biggest entrant lately is TikTok, the first social media giant to be available as a native app on Vision Pro. TikTok parent company ByteDance released […]

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16. Februar 2024

Two Classic VR Games From Google’s VR Studio Coming Soon to Vision Pro

Vacation Simulator (2019) | Image courtesy Owlchemy Labs

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio, announced it’s bringing the chart-topping VR games Job Simulator (2016) and its sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) to Apple Vision Pro. The studio’s seminal ‘Simulator’ franchise has had its fair share of success over the years, with both garnering over a million downloads across all major VR headsets. As testament […]

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Zuckerberg: Quest 3 Beats Vision Pro in ‘vast majority’ of Cases in Mixed Reality

Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) | Based on images courtesy Meta, Apple

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg got a chance to try out Apple Vision Pro, which although seven times more expensive than the company’s Quest 3 mixed reality headset, is arguably its biggest competitor right now—at least in terms of mental real estate it’s taking up. Here’s what the Meta chief himself thought about Apple’s first XR […]

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14. Februar 2024

SteamVR Driver for Vision Pro Now in Development, Including VR Controller Support

The developer leading the push to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC VR games says they’re working on a SteamVR driver that aims to bring unofficial SteamVR support to Vision Pro, controllers and all. You may have heard earlier this week that independent programmer Zhuowei Zhang had installed a modified version of Wi-Fi PC streaming […]

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8. Februar 2024

Existing VR Games Would Look Great on Vision Pro, But Without Controllers Most Are Stuck

Unofficial Vision Pro Controller Design Concept | Image courtesy Alex Casabò

Apple doesn’t call Vision Pro a mixed reality headset, or a virtual reality headset for that matter. To Apple, it’s all spatial computing, which is fine—if not a little too vague. Since it doesn’t support dedicated controllers like all VR headsets out there though, it’s leaving many developers essentially stuck and unable to port many […]

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2. Februar 2024

The First Apple Vision Pro Reviews Are Here

The first reviews for Vision Pro are live, highlighting a ton of great, good and not-so-great things about Apple’s first mixed reality headset. The $3,500 Vision Pro is set to launch on February 2nd, but it seems the first reviews are already out from a select number of outlets, including CNET, The Verge, The Wall […]

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30. Januar 2024

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New Vision Pro Hands-on Reports Drop Ahead of Friday Pre-order

We’ve had a chance to go hands-on with Apple Vision Pro when the company unveiled it at WWDC last summer. Now it seems Apple has let a few outlets in for another go, as new previews have dropped ahead of the device’s Friday pre-order event. The Verge and Engadget were among those with fresh Apple-sanctioned previews of […]

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17. Januar 2024