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Getting Started
AVP Play is an app for the Mac. It takes VR games you bought for the Meta Quest and turns them into apps for your Apple Vision Pro.
That happens in four steps – the app does all of them for you:
- Check: The app asks Meta (or Steam) whether you own the game. Only then does it continue.
- Download: The game files are downloaded to your Mac with your own account.
- Build: Your Mac translates the game for the Vision Pro and signs the app with your Apple account ("signing" is Apple's way of saying who made an app).
- Copy: The finished app is copied to your Vision Pro. You find it there like any other app.
AVP Play does not hand out any games itself. You only get what you bought.
| Mac | A Mac with an Apple chip (M1 or newer), macOS 14 or later |
| Xcode | Apple's free developer app from the App Store, with its visionOS add-on |
| Apple Vision Pro | On the same Wi-Fi as the Mac, with Developer Mode on |
| Apple account | Your normal Apple ID is enough (free). The paid developer membership removes a few limits – see Setup. |
| Meta account | The account you bought the Quest games with |
| Steam account (optional) | Only for games you bought on Steam (e.g. Half-Life: Alyx, Doom 3) |
| Disk space | A lot. A big game needs 10 to 75 GB on the Mac and the same again on the Vision Pro. An external drive for the Mac works too. |
| Controllers | Most games need the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. An ordinary game controller (DualSense, Xbox) works together with your hands. |
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Get the app: Download
AVP-Play-1.4.7.dmgfrom the download page. Open it and drag AVP Play into Applications. - Open the app: On first launch the app shows the Setup page. It shows for every item whether it is fine (green tick) or what is missing. How to do each item is on the Setup page.
- Pick a game: Under Games, pick a game and click Install. More under Finding and filtering games.
- Wait: Under Jobs you see how far the installation is. Big games take a while the first time.
- Play: Put on the Vision Pro and open the game. A start window appears with Start and Settings. More under On the Vision Pro.
Not every Quest game works. Each game needs small adjustments before it runs on the Vision Pro. The labels in the app tell you how well a game runs:
- Verified (blue): The project tested the game on a Vision Pro.
- Community Verified (green): More people report "works" than "doesn't work".
- Untested (gray): No reports yet. You may try it – but it may well not start.
- Incompatible (red): Reported not to work.
If a game doesn't work, see Help and FAQ.
➡️ Setup