To address the elephant in the room, gaming may be an area where the Apple Vision Pro falls a little short compared to similar VR devices. Don’t expect fully immersive titles like “Boneworks,” “Half Life: Alyx,” or “The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners” on the headset.
In Apple’s defense, it was never marketed as a gaming-focused headset. Apple itself has never really been a gaming-focused company either. For years, it was happy to let PCs be the place for desktop gaming while it mainly focused on productivity and usability.
The Vision Pro does have games available — over 250, in fact — and many of them can be accessed via Apple Arcade. Most of them are “flat screen” titles that you can play with a virtual or physical controller. However some, like “Fruit Ninja” and “Blackbox,” allow users to play games in AR.
You can also connect to the likes of Steam and stream titles to the headset, though from the looks of things, the titles in question are similarly flat screen efforts like “Baldur’s Gate 3,” rather than titles from Steam’s own vast library of VR content.
