AVP Play installs Meta Quest games you own on Apple Vision Pro, by relinking them on a Mac rather than streamingAVP Play installs Meta Quest games you own on Apple Vision Pro, by relinking them on a Mac rather than streaming

A free Mac app called AVP Play installs Meta Quest games on Apple Vision Pro, using copies the user has bought from Meta.

It was published on GitHub on 8 October by a developer in Germany who uses the name myMartek, and reached version 1.0.12 early on 10 October. AppleInsider pointed to it on 9 October. It is not on the App Store or TestFlight. It is open source under the MIT licence, and its README says it is not affiliated with, endorsed or supported by Apple or Meta.

How does AVP Play work?

It does not stream games from a PC and does not emulate a Quest. The app signs in to the user's own Meta account, asks which games that account owns, and downloads only those with Meta's own command-line tool. It then converts each game on the Mac using a modified version of Klepton, a project by Max Thomas that describes itself as a relinker and compatibility layer. Klepton rewrites the game's Android libraries as Apple libraries and translates its graphics calls to Metal. AVP Play then signs the result with the user's Apple developer account and installs it on the headset over Wi-Fi.

What do you need?

• An Apple silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later, with Xcode and the visionOS platform installed
• A Vision Pro paired with Xcode, with Developer Mode on, on the same Wi-Fi network
• A paid Apple Developer Program membership; the README says free accounts do not work
• The Meta account that bought the games
• Plenty of disk space: about 34GB for Asgard's Wrath 2

A DualSense or Xbox controller works alongside hand tracking. The README lists 12 games as verified, among them Beat Saber, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Asgard's Wrath 2, Moss, SUPERHOT VR and Walkabout Mini Golf, plus Half-Life: Alyx from the user's own Steam copy. Of the roughly 17,000 other titles it lists, it warns users to expect an untested game not to start. It does not say which visionOS version or which Vision Pro model it needs; users reporting on GitHub run visionOS 27.0 to 27.2.

Has anyone tested it?

Not independently. The developer describes it as built and used by one person, on one Mac and one Vision Pro. AppleInsider's item is a short pointer and does not say it was tried. The only outside reports are a handful of GitHub issues from 9 and 10 October, which describe working installs alongside failed builds of some games and dropped transfers on very large ones. Meta has not commented.

Our take

Technically, this is impressive and narrow at once. Converting a game rather than streaming it means it runs on the headset with no PC in the loop, which is the hard and interesting part. It follows the same idea as Mac.apk, which runs Android apps on Apple silicon Macs without an emulator: Apple's chips and Android's both run ARM code, so the work is in the libraries and the graphics, not the processor.

The narrow part is who can use it. A paid developer account at 99 dollars a year, Xcode, Developer Mode and a working knowledge of all three put it well outside the reach of most Vision Pro owners. It also only ever works with games you already bought for a Quest, so it is useful mainly to people who own both headsets.

APPDOOK would treat it as a promising experiment, not a library. Twelve verified games out of 17,000 is a start, every result so far is the developer's own, and the README is right to tell users to check the terms of each store and game for themselves. What it does show is how thin Vision Pro's own game catalogue still is, if people will go this far to bring Quest games across.