The coolest use for the Vision Pro
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The author repurposes the Vision Pro to virtually walk through their future home by converting floor plans into immersive USDZ models.
The author, building a house, used Fusion 360 to model floor plans in 3D, adding textures and furniture from IKEA and 3D Warehouse. By exporting to USDZ, they built a custom Vision Pro app called Prospector (vibe-coded with AI) that allows controller-based walking, skybox views, terrain following, and toggling between virtual and real environments. The app makes spatial design decisions more tangible than PDFs or teleport-style walkthroughs.
The author describes downloading IKEA 3D models via a Tampermonkey script and converting glb files to obj, and using 3D Warehouse on iOS to get USDZ files for import. The final workflow: edit in Fusion, export USDZ, test in Prospector on Vision Pro. The code is available on GitHub as a janky, unpolished project.
What commenters are saying
Commenters split sharply: some call the Vision Pro a flop due to weight, price, and limited sales (one claims 350K units in year one, then declining), while others call it their favorite gadget, using it as a main monitor or for movies. Several note the same house-walkthrough use case is possible on cheaper headsets like Quest 2/3, with one warning Quest 3 is pixelated and laggy for work. One commenter says the M5 version exists, countering claims of abandonment.
A few defend the Vision Pro as the future but hard to recommend, with weight as the most cited barrier. One commenter automated furniture texture creation. Another notes Apple employees almost never use it internally, arguing that is the real signal.