Apple Vision Pro gets new mixed-reality weather forecasts as we wait for more apps

Predicting the weather like never before

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Apple’sVision Prois just a couple of days away from launching, and while Apple has highlighted someastonishing appsthat are coming to the device, there have also been questions overhow many apps will be availablefor users upon release. Well, we now know that one of thebest iPhone appswill be among that number, and it could provide you with a great way to use Apple’s mixed-reality headset.

The app is the ever-popular Carrot Weather. As the name suggests, this app provides you with forecasts, weather warnings, and everything in between. It’s known for its caustic sense of humor – your reports are delivered by a robot whose outlook ranges from gentle to misanthropic – and that’s helped it stand out among a slate of otherexcellent weather apps.

On the Vision Pro, though, Carrot Weather is going to do something a little different. According to screenshots posted by theM1 Astra accounton X (formerly Twitter), Carrot Weather will come with a floating planet Earth that shows the weather at whatever global location you select, as well as mini-games you can play via an tool at the bottom of the app window.

That comes in addition to the range of weather data you’d expect from an app like this, including temperatures, wind speeds, sunrise and sunset times, and more. That information will be displayed in a large floating window that shows far more data at a glance than the Carrot Weather iPhone app is able to do.

As spotted byMacRumors, Carrot Weather developer Brian Mueller said the floating globe would be the “marquee feature” of the app and that “it’s just really cool being able to look at a globe floating in your living room.” It shows one of the ways the Vision Pro may let apps do things they never could on an iPhone or iPad.

Is the Vision Pro selling well?

It comes as news emerged that Apple has reportedly sold around 200,000 Vision Pro headsets in the first 10 days since pre-orders opened on January 19 (viaMacRumors). Given pre-release predictions, that seems like an impressively high figure, but there is a caveat to those numbers.

Analysts had previously predicted that Apple wouldsell about 400,000 headsetsin the entire first year of its availability. Apple tipster Ming-Chi Kuo, meanwhile, forecast that Apple would producebetween 60,000 and 80,000 unitsfor the device’s launch, suggesting that even Apple was unprepared for the level of demand.

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That said, Kuo also claimed in a later report that Apple soldbetween 160,000 and 180,000 headsetsduring the pre-order weekend. That suggests that demand might have slowed in the days since then, as Apple has now apparently hit 200,000 units sold after 10 days.

The big question is whether Apple can sustain Vision Pro demand throughout the year. A large number of those 200,000 sales would likely have come from developers, hardcore Apple fans and early adopters. Will Apple be able to sustain this level of sales going forward, or will interest slowly die off over time? We’ll be watching closely.

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Alex Blake has been fooling around with computers since the early 1990s, and since that time he’s learned a thing or two about tech. No more than two things, though. That’s all his brain can hold. As well as TechRadar, Alex writes for iMore, Digital Trends and Creative Bloq, among others. He was previously commissioning editor at MacFormat magazine. That means he mostly covers the world of Apple and its latest products, but also Windows, computer peripherals, mobile apps, and much more beyond. When not writing, you can find him hiking the English countryside and gaming on his PC.

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