On 2023 June 5, Apple introduced its new headset named Vision Pro. This is a new headset based on the technology they use. It is like a visual computer. You can interact with the system using motion gestures, eye tracking, and speech recognition. It is like a computer just in front of your eyes. But they avoided introducing this as a Virtual Reality Headset. This device runs VisionOS, it is a mixed-reality operating system. With this, you can multitask via Windows. With this new headset, they also introduced a lot of new applications for this new operating system. there are more than a million apps. In this article, we are going to talk about these apps, what they are and what are the best for you. Here, we talk about the best apps under different categories.
For Communications and Meetings
MS Teams
In modern days people like to use remote work more than physical work. So, creating more opportunities for online communications is essential. Microsoft Teams now fits into Apple’s new headset. They use the persona feature to engage in video calls. It means the technology in this headset creates a virtual version of your face. It is similar to your face look. With this, they create your digital persona. It can track your face and hand movements. This may be helpful because you don’t have to look directly at the app.
Zoom App
Zoom introduced new app features targeting the new Apple Vision Pro. This focuses more on the person’s physical space. It blurs the lines of a person and makes them feel more connected. Also, as mentioned before, this uses the persona method, it uses a Spatial zoom experience, which will fix the scale and make you feel like you are in the same room with your other mates.
Slack App
Slack is ready to introduce its new app version for Apple Vision Pro. This will be available soon. Now there is only the iPad app exists. This new version will reduce the limits and make the experience in this app more exciting than before.
For Productivity
Microsoft Office
Microsoft introduced updated suits for the Apple Vision Pro, and they will definitely enhance productivity. Let’s see what are they,
Excel
With this, they make the 3D version of your spreadsheets and give the users a new experience. You can do all the basic stuff with this, and this 3D version will help with all the analyzing and other visualizing data. Users can use multiple windows, and you can move these 3D charts to other documents or Teams chats.
PowerPoint
You can create and present your presentation with this. They add a new feature called Immersive Environment. This allows you to practice your presentations like you are standing in front of a real audience.
Word
This new version will help you to engage yourself in your document.
Microsoft Copilot: AI
Copilot is Microsoft’s successful AI tool. Now, it is available for the Vision Pro headset. This can draft, edit, and analyze documents in the Vision Pro, and it will help to reduce the keyboard working. Also, this headset has a limited keyboard. This tool helps to analyze and explore new data and it will help users to make things more fast.
For Creativity
Adobe Lightroom
They redesigned this app for VisionOS. It makes the users feel like there is a true big screen in front of their eyes. Also, you can edit with hand gestures. With this, you can do many more things than desktop versions. This version is still waiting to come, and they dropped some hints for this. But they don’t know about Photoshop and Illustrator apps on this headset.
Adobe Firefly
This is an AI image-generating tool and belongs to Adobe. You have to only enter your text prompt and it will create the image right in front of your eyes. You can move these images to walls and any other place you want and check whether they are suitable or not.
Other than that, there are a lot more apps belonging to different categories. You can simply download these apps using the below steps,
- First, go to the App Store.
- Search for the app you want to download.
- Then tap on ‘Get.’
Then they request your Apple ID and the password. After that, you can download the app and launch it.
Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube say that they still don’t pay any attention to making new versions of this new headset, and it will cause huge concern among Apple users. Maybe they will introduce new versions in the future.