Voyager

2024-03-10

App Store Link Price: Free

visualization

Voyager is an app that lets you observe the flight activities of any airport in the world. It is straightforward to find the airports near you, and save your favorites. You can also listen in to the control tower communications.



Tapping on an airplane will give you more information about it.

Insight Heart

2024-03-05

App Store Link Price: Free

medicine visualization

Insight Heart is an immersive exploration of the human heart. An audio narrator will walk you through the anatomy of the heart, explaining normal function as well as what anomalies can arise.



Various layers as well as visualization of blood flow can be toggled.

Exploring Mars

2024-02-22

App Store Link Price: Free

mars nasa science space

This app by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory spawns a model of the Perseverance rover right in front of you. A slider lets you scale it from a tiny model, to a 1:1 scale.



Besides scaling, interacting with the model is limited to rotating it. Tapping on individual components brings up more information about the part of the rover you're looking at. The developers report that a future update will add an immersive Mars environment.

Animoog Galaxy

2024-02-20

App Store Link Price: $29.99

music synthesizer

Moog is famous for their impressive range of both hardware and software synthesizers. You will find several of their iOS apps on the iPad of most any musician.



This first Vision Pro app starts off as a small wire sculpture like visualization along the edges of which colored dots of light rush, generating music. Basic controls are presented for manipulating the sound, and going through the 120 included presets.



When you press the Universe button you are teleported in space, with the synthesizer in its fully expanded form in front of you. This reveals a plethora of controls that will let you sculpt the tone and melody with filters, sequencers, a keyboard for live performance, and so on.