Apple’s Vision Pro is here: These are some of the most exciting indie apps and games
techcrunch.comWith the Vision Pro finally available, many consumers are curious about Apple’s AR/VR headset and the apps that come with it. While some are from companies you recognize — Disney+, Max, TikTok, Zoom, Reddit and others — there are plenty of independent developers that launched visionOS-optimized apps.
From spatial puzzle games to an app where you can view interior design projects in 3D, here are some of the visionOS apps from smaller developers that users can try out when their headset arrives. We’ll keep adding more to this list as they roll out.
Image Credits: Soul Assembly
Soul Spire is a spatial puzzle game exclusively developed for the Vision Pro. Players must free the friendly little ghosts trapped within color-shifting cubes.
Image Credits: Ryan McLeod
Blackbox is a unique spatial puzzle game where, instead of tapping or swiping, players must interact with puzzles — which appear as floating bubbles in the physical world — in other creative ways like singing and rotating, among other methods that don’t involve using their hands.
Image Credits: Tempuno/Michael Temper
Ploppy Pairs is a card-matching game that can be played with friends and family via SharePlay during FaceTime calls. You can also move, scale and rotate the cards so they appear on the coffee table in front of you or make them as big as your floor. Additionally, Michael Temper — the developer behind Ploppy — is launching a hidden-object game called “Where is Ploppy?”.
Image Credits: Sindre Sorhus
Doodle Draw is a simple digital drawing pad where you can brainstorm ideas and use your creativity to sketch doodles with various brushes, pens, markers and colors.
Image Credits: Ditached GmbH
Tiny Fins is a cute underwater game where you guide a school of fish through bubble rings, avoiding enemies like sharks and squid.
Loóna is a relaxing spatial puzzle game where you have to assemble 3D dioramas that transform into animated scenes.
Image Credits: ModumHQ
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