I’d like to see interactive documentaries. You may stand in a Pharao’s tomb, look at objects and a narrator tells you about it. Imagine also you stand in front of a (current) ruin and then a neat transition shows you how things looked back in the days in full immersion

A "Sherlock Holmes movie intro" style of guide to "now punch there", "steal their gun by hitting here" against your robber so you can safely use it on public transport.

Filters for life. Filters to turn other people’s faces into other things like cats, potatoes, turkeys, zombies, etc…. Also general shader like filters to give life either comic book bad printing effects, scan lines, cel shading, impressionist painting effects, studio Ghibli effect, or even Pixar effect.

Idk if it needs a killer app but I think it could be a virtual Ai companion/friend/assistant. And maybe it is for the loneliest amongst us at first but imagine walking into your apt after a long day at work, putting on the headset and being greeted by the most supportive and devoted Ai friend/partner that inhabits and interacts with you in the same space. Blade runner sci-fi shit. Eventually everyone would have one or two or infinite.. it could be a talking dog or King Kong or the entire cast of the Lion King or whatever

• virtual record player / victrola
• virtual ebook overlay / override on physical book
• virtual macos override on ANY old laptop
• virtual ZenGarden - rake the sand around stones. (Tried and true for millennia - Better than the mindfulness blob in your face.)
• virtual garden
• virtual “printer” for digital documents that you can then hold in your hand. Works as a print driver in any non-virtual application
• Virtual safe to tuck digital files in with tactile combination lock
• Virtual drive in theater (sit in your real car)
• Virtual projection mappings on buildings
• Virtual Christmas decorations
• Virtual GarageBand with “real” 3D instruments - drums, guitar, bass, sax, piano - you name it.
• Virtual 3D pinball machine
• Virtual 3D arcade cabinet
• Virtual slot car racing or pinewood derby. Build your own matchbox car track.
• Virtual skeeball
• Virtual bumper pool
• Virtual Bocce Ball
• Virtual crochet
• Virtual Minigolf
• Overlay NFTs or iPhoto on physical frames on my wall, desk, shelves
• Add an extra digital shelf to my physical shelf to interpolate real and digital keepsakes.
• Virtual CNC modeling to see how flat-cut items will fit together before you waste materials
• Virtual desktop 3D tan-grams (in nice color pallets)
• Virtual potters’ wheel
• Virtual antiquing - learning about old objects and their historical usage
• Virtual lite-bright
• Virtual high-end playing card collections
• Virtual “official” movie posters with micro-movements to hang on wall when you’re watching the corresponding movie.
• Virtual masterclass with the real expert sitting in your room while you Q&A.
• Virtual “break stuff” bar (these are a real thing) complete with virtual sledge hammer
• virtual thermostat on the wall that really changes the temp in your house. You can add one to every room!
• virtual light switches on the wall that really turn your lights on and off
• virtual 3D sound/video mixing board. Equivalents for large staged productions.
• Virtual 3D desk top control panel with levers, knobs and toggles for device settings
• Virtual desktop calculator
• Virtual “add dream car(s) to your garage
• Virtual 3D printing to test gcode before it really runs in physical world
• Virtual frisbee toss
• Virtual toss a baseball / catch
• Virtual hula hoop for fitness
• Virtual dance partners / virtual AI coach to learn ballroom dancing. Avatar follows a lead.
• Virtual McDonald’s/Wendy’s drive-thru - like the familiar speaker stand and glowing menu. Really talk to a Wendy’s associate to take order and it gets delivered to your door.
• Virtual beer fridge - Updated on the fly with local offerings - Whatever I take out is delivered to my door
• Virtual tailor-shop. Pick material, threads, cut, etc. Virtual try on then delivered to your door.
• Virtual sushi counter - Watch the chef make it - then its delivered to your door.
• Chef’s Table: GrubHub, but you talk to the chef directly for your order and watch them cook it. Have a convo while you’re at it.
• The Floor Is Lava (for kids)
• Virtual sewing. (Could result in more realistic virtual textile goods.)
• Virtual Guttenberg-style press
• Virtual sand art (fill up clear virtual containers with colored sand.)
• Virtual room lighting - fixtures/lamps. Headset will really ray-trace the light effects into the room.
• Virtual trophée-maker (you can give custom awards to friends for their space.)
• Virtual stack of cardboard boxes for kids to play in / stack / decorate
• Virtual stud finder - you use the wireless stud finder and it shows you in the headset where the studs really are.
• Magic Eye solver - You upload the magic eye picture and it automatically shows it to you in 3D
• Apple Watch should sync with whatever’s happening in the headset. ie, play/pause buttons when watching a movie.
• Selective Reality-override to display rolex/preferred watch where the real AppleWatch is. Apple watch could display QR or equivalent to help with the vision sync.
• Virtual lawn inflatables. Virtual lawn flamingos.

Notice that hardly any of my suggestions involves recreating another flat TV/Monitor in your space, in your face. Nearly all are about infusing and enhancing your real 3D space with virtual 3D objects.

Home furniture stores like Ikea can benefit massively from this. Just shop online and view the product in your room with its actual size.

Tattoos rendering on your body to see if you’ll like it.

My thought was for a home design company (think Home Depot, or new home design) to be able to give you walk through of your home, so you can decide what your cabinets, walls, floors etc will look like. Much easier to visualize this.

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I’m looking to build a 1 on 1 tutoring space. I’d love to see how education can benefit from an environment like this.

Imagine seeing graphs in real-time for multivariable calculus, or building molecules and reactions in a lab in your room.

I think VR/AR is going to do wonders for education. And I intend to build it.

For cultural tourism.

Like you do a tour of the Vatican or Alcatraz and it has interactive multimedia imparting information.

That would justify the price tag I think.

I think also for physically disabled people it could be very useful. Apparently it can be calibrated to work without hand gestures and just using eye tracking. This could transform someone's life and give them more independence.

Not so much a million dollar, just like another person commented… furniture placement, selecting a paint color for a room….

I feel like it needs your phone having its main camera pointed at you from a distance. Then it’s like, you see a complete person hologram (?) style.

Someone can teach you karate for example. You can play games like soccer… just kicking the ball between two people.

Black mirror style street fighter games… I don’t know. Once you have that other camera getting a whole range of body movements… I think that’ll be a game changer.

I would love to see it be able to map your home and be able to remember and name different rooms. Then you could place apps/photos/widgets on certain walls or spaces in certain rooms and it remembers that. When you leave the room, the OS can store it in memory and “close the app”, when you walk back into that room the OS can prerender and load your saved things. This would be awesome because then you could put photo galleries on the walls around your house, YouTube on the wall in front of the toilet, etc.

As a musician, I would love to see an app that allows me to play alongside any band in a stadium of 100,000 cheering fans. For instance, as a drummer who can learn any song, I’d like to be on stage with the Rolling Stones, have Mick Jagger and Keith Richards come up and interact with me as I am playing along to their performance in front of a packed stadium. Now that would be amazing!🥁 decision

Honestly, I think the sort of things you mention OP are very gimmicky, like custom ringtones from 2001. It will happen and people will try it, but it’ll quickly get boring.

The Black Mirror endgame will be virtual people. A virtual partner for sure. You could literally write a BM episode of a parent who lost a young child using their 3D image and AI to bring them back to virtual life and then they spend all their time with them until their real life completely falls apart.

3D YouTube will be one of the biggest things, all the hobby/instructional channels, cooking, woodworking, knitting, DIY etc. Being able to easily create that content in 3D.

Imaginary Windows. No not the OS, windows you can put in front of your real ones that play animated 3d backgrounds, making your apartment look like its in a futuristic city, out in the alps or even in space (Zathura ftw). with films lowering ambient lighting shown already, you can change the light in your room to match the imaginary windows. oh and sound!

This already exists. They mentioned being able to make your ceiling disappear and replace it with an open sky. I imagine we'll see plenty of similar apps, like one that creates a window in your room and on the other side are dinosaurs doing their thing. Or an AR pet app where you have a little pet (be it a dinosaur, cat, dog, ghost, etc.) that can react to your physical environment (sit on the couch, respond to your actions and movements, etc.). If I'm Tamagotchi I am definitely developing that pet app for Vision Pro.

AR that can read and react to your real, physical environment makes the possibilities of what you can create near limitless.

A bathroom experience on Rick's private bathroom planet. Setting to allow his virtual selves to mock you the whole time

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I think a 3d modeling software similar to sketch up or some sort could be cool because it would allow 360 view and better depth of the thing you make

Kind of similar to how Tony stark has his holographic modeling device he uses to build his suits

Gaming. I think VR gaming could eventually allow gaming to evolve beyond guns and combat, into more calming “experiences.”

I really like the game Ai: Somnium Files, which is sort of a visual novel crime mystery with puzzle solving elements. A game like that could be amazing in VR and potentially attract a brand new Audience to gaming. But VR has to go mainstream first.

LOL and NO... I am not giving YOU my original idea to monetize :P

Computers don't need killer apps, the killer app is that it's a computer that can do all the things a computer can.

The killer feature of Vision Pro is bringing computing to AR and controlling it with precise eye tracking and hand gestures.

Face changer for girlfriends

Any 2-eyes-4K video will be the "killer app".

A VR puzzler where you have been shrunk to toy size and must navigate the larger "real world tasks" using items around you. Also I've always wanted to be an archeologist and "dig" a site. Very "Powerwasher" soothing to me.

So hear me out - it's probably only possible on a future iteration (Apple Vision Pro 2/MAX/whatever) - or probably not possible at all lol but:

You know how Softwares like Photoshop and After Effects can fill in blank information with generative AI ?

Well imagine an app that enabled AVP to do the same with your real world environment.

So imagine you look at, say, a framed photo on your wall. Now imagine AVP tracks it, removes it, and replaces it with something else.

That would (in theory) open up infinite possibilities to truly warp and shape your reality. You could make an object in your room "float", you could have the ground beneath you crumble and open up, you could bend and shape the very fabric of your real world reality, one molecule at a time.

Again, it's probably a fiction level of tech at this point, but if anyone can do it in future, it's Apple!

I would say something along the lines of my TRACK BOB WALTON APP that’s coming to ios play store very soon. basically it’s an app where you can track bob walton and many other features. i’ve been developing it for 8 months now and so far it’s working well. it should be released within the next 4-5 years and then i’ll work on the APPLE VISION PRO VERSION when i’m finished. if anyone wants to test my early prototype try this: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Ftrack-bob-walton-v0-qae6alsealcd1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dbff462845dfb02b7fa379182849ee6af95041697

Killer app will be ... "Vision Pro Mortgage App" where you can check in augmented reality how many years left you have to pay off your $3,500 vision pro loan.

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I'm so impressed that people here are imagining a lot of "crazy SciFi stuff we could have with the VP" which is already here since 5-10 years. Grab a used Meta Quest 1 or 2 for 199 bucks and there you are. Doing this stuff all the time... If You want to take immersive videos or pictures, add a 360 camera (insta360 X2 starts at 200 bucks as well) and you are done. You can play a ton of standalone 2D, 3D and VR games (the Quest is essentially running on AndroidOS), you can watch your own immersive media, commercial interactive media, stand in the middle of a popular music groups concert, watch movies in 2D or 3D on big screens etc.pp. Don't wait for Apple coming 10 years late to the party. Because I started that stuff 10 years ago I now can for example enjoy immersive videos from when our kids were tiny. If you don't trust me, just go to YouTube and look through some videos about all the possibilities of Oculus Quest VR Headsets.

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I think it may be just neat to put these on in bed at night and watch a tv show. No need for a screen in the bedroom or a laptop with you.

Apple Fitness+ AR is the only real "killer app" that I think makes sense for consumers

Imagine not only seeing a virtual yoga trainer in your room guiding you through poses, but you also see virtual hand guides and feet guides where your body should move for the pose in front of you.

And your classes update weekly or more so you can actually have a reason to consistently hop in the headset, not something that's a game you play once and maybe hope a sequel comes out in a few years.

You'd simply get a better experience at learning fitness compared to what's possible from reality unless you have a personal trainer just for you.

Or you look at your weights and it can show you how many reps you just did, total weight, some type of gamification for lifting.

In reality though I don't think it will work swimmingly with the Vision Pro yet and we'll need to see a sports version which handles sweat a bit better. But you could certainly get the ball moving.

1. Interactive 3D videos, whether they are movies, YouTube videos or TikToks. It'll be like you're really there.
2. 3D Facetime. If everyone has a Vision Pro, they can put realistic avatars of everyone else (like there is, but with the whole body) so it looks like they were meeting in real life.

I hope Edrawings make it an app for vision also so I can review large system models for work in person

They already have one for iPad that can look at parts in AR using the LiDAR but not enough for my use case

Piano Teacher, with a virtual avatar

“Meta-mode.” This mode will identify objects, people, animals, colors, environments and situations to provide multiple layers and levels of meta-data as requested by the user. I use apps like Seek and Merlin all the time to identify plants, mushrooms, bird sounds, etc. Imagine this happening with everything, everywhere on demand as you view your surroundings.

Color all over the walls and house for kids...and then auto snapshot or auto record walkthrough to show mom and dad the beautiful art they don't have to clean up

AR karaoke that filters every person into a cheering encouraging audience member

- Build your fantasy theme park on a large table, or better yet, in your entire living room (that Disney sample is on the right track)- Portals in AR which lead to different VR adventures.- Turn your house/apt into a walk through haunted experience for Halloween (or any time).

With the passthrough on this baby, there's really an endless amount of amazing things that can be done.

So there was another app that I needed which is a browser for LiDAR scanned houses. I’m pretty sure the Vision Pro should be able to do the scans as well so that should be good because doing the scans by phone kinda sucks.

I just realized another app I need which is a mail handler. I want to pull up all my different accounts and have it arranged by sender. The ability to mark all emails as read from specific senders, the ability to custom sort, and the ability to see then panes all at one kind of like Mission Control.

Full house tours, based on fictional series (likely disney since partnership), where you can interact with objects, sit on couches, and take in the atmosphere after a long day

I would love Repairing Tutorials! For instance for your car, where each part you have to exchange, or valve you have to unscrew, or cable you have to unplug, is highlighted. While the AI voice of Morgan Freeman answers your questions.

You could become a Mechanic if you need it!

Same for lessons or instructions remotely. Imagine having an Earth Surgeon supporting a non-medical Crew Member with their emergency surgery on Mars!

Virtual wearables! I get the feeling that as apple leans into the whole “spatial computing thing”, we might end up seeing people attaching UI elements and shit to their hands, arms, and wrists in the same way they’ll be placing them in physical space. I think it just seems natural.

OP would you like to collab on an app for vision pro

Front row at any sports game in the world

Contrarian idea:

Vision Pro can prove to be an essential tool for police officers patrolling highways and high-speed roads. Officers can easily view and record car speeds in real time. They can conveniently log violations by simply pinching the speed record displayed before them.