All the apps on your iPad and iPhone go straight to Apple’s Vision Pro Headphones

Apple is trying to give buyers of the $3,500 Vision Pro headset as much as possible, even if it means pulling all the apps from other app ecosystems to the mixed reality headset. first case. The company said Tuesday that the all-new Vision Pro App Store will run “hundreds of thousands” of iPadOS and iOS apps.

This comes with the release of the developer beta version of VisionOS this fall, which will include the new App Store. Apple is moving “all” — or really most — of its iPad and iPhone apps directly to the new Vision Pro store. All apps will appear in their original form—designed for flat screens—as Apple ported all app frameworks directly to VisionOS. So yes, if you really want the “Fart World” app to work on the Vision Pro for your realistic fart soundboard, you can.

All apps that cannot function without features or peripherals that are not available on Apple headphones will come with a notification that the app is not compatible. Developers will need to modify their apps to add that Vision Pro functionality, but any navigation app with turn directions or camera-based functionality won’t work. As App Store developer Steve Troughton-Smith wrote on Mastodon (via CultofMac), if a developer doesn’t want their app to appear on Vision Pro, they need to uncheck the box in their App Store Connect service.

Back in June, Apple opened access for developers to start working on VisionOS apps to deliver “spatial experiences.” The developer kit also shows the availability of a virtual keyboard and emoji keyboard inside the system, meaning everyone will be able to use text-based apps.

Based on initial testing of the product at WWDC, Apple has included many of the basic apps you get on iOS and macOS, including Messages, Books, Mail, and Safari. They will be adapted to the Vision Pro’s controller-less gesture-based controls, but other apps will be able to work with pinch and swipe movements. However, if developers don’t dig in soon, there’s no guarantee all or even most of these hundreds of thousands of apps will run well on Apple’s so-called “spatial computers.”

How many Vision Pro-centric apps will be available at launch? Steve Sinclair, Apple’s director of Vision Pro product marketing, told DigitalTrends that software developer kit downloads have exceeded expectations. This is despite Bloomberg’s Apple expert Mark Gurman Report that the Vision Pro developer lab established earlier this year was “incomplete.” We’ll likely see some mixed reality apps appear on the Vision Pro app store at launch, but it’s unclear whether non-virtual reality developers will try creating simpler apps to fill the user’s time or not.

Third-party apps could be a significant turn-off for some customers when Apple finally releases the Vision Pro in early 2024. All the time it takes to try out the $3,500 venture Apple’s entry into VR and AR must finally be worth it. Early adopters will need to schedule an appointment to test the device and make sure it fits comfortably with the heavy strap.

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