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Apple Vision Pro App of the Year 2025

Press & Recognition

Explore POV was named Apple Vision Pro App of the Year 2025, and our films are featured in Apple's own Spatial Gallery. As of August 2026 almost the whole library streams in the headset browser too: 211 of our 214 experiences play with no app to install. Coverage, fact sheet, assets and media contact are below.

A VR180 still from Explore POV: the bow of an orange kayak on turquoise water, between the limestone cliffs of the Big Lagoon in the Philippines

News · August 2026

Nearly every film, now in the headset browser

Explore POV's WebXR player already ran on Meta Quest, Samsung Galaxy XR, PICO and desktop. What changed in August 2026 is the catalogue behind it: web encoding is finished, so 211 of our 214 experiences now play straight from the headset browser rather than the slice that did at launch. There is no Explore POV app to install and no store review to wait on: open explorepov.com, pick a film, and you are standing in it.

The films are shot by hand in VR180 across 22 destinations, in up to 16K, our Apple Immersive films on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive. The web player carries the same films as the native visionOS app, streamed up to 8K, in the browser most headsets already ship with. PICO is the exception: its built-in browser handles WebXR poorly, so we point PICO owners at Wolvic, a one-time install from the PICO store.

How it runs on each headset Browse the library

Coverage

In the press

Apple Newsroom

Explore POV is named a winner of the 2025 App Store Awards. Read the announcement.

Apple, App Store editorial

"The closest thing to teleportation, Explore POV whisks you to beautiful beaches, lush forests, and bustling cities around the world…" Read the App Store story.

Forbes

John Koetsier on Apple's top apps and games of 2025. Read the article.

Gear Patrol

The 2025 App Store Award winners. Read the roundup.

TechRadar

Featured in TechRadar's coverage of the 2025 App Store Awards. Read the article.

CBS Detroit

Coverage of how immersive video is being studied as a tool for mental health support. Watch the segment.

BBC Click

Explore POV contributed footage to BBC Click.

Fact sheet

The numbers, checked live

The experience and country counts read straight from our catalogue API, so they are current at the moment this page loaded. Capture resolution, download totals and App Store ratings are figures we hold ourselves.

214

Experiences in the library

Countries filmed

16K

Maximum VR180 capture resolution

100K+

Downloads to date

Launched

2024, Christchurch, New Zealand

Recognition

Apple Vision Pro App of the Year 2025 at the App Store Awards. Our films are also featured in Apple's Spatial Gallery.

Format

Stereoscopic VR180, shot in up to 16K. Our Apple Immersive films are shot on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive.

Where it plays

Native visionOS app on Apple Vision Pro. Headset browser via WebXR on Meta Quest, Samsung Galaxy XR and desktop, and on PICO through the Wolvic browser. No Explore POV app to install anywhere. See all devices.

Library

214 experiences across 22 destinations, of which 211 play in a browser today. New films are added regularly.

Audience

100,000+ downloads, and 4.6 from 2,900+ App Store ratings.

Research

Our films are used in university research into how immersive video affects wellbeing.

Coverage

Apple Newsroom, Forbes, TechRadar, Gear Patrol and CBS Detroit. Footage contributed to BBC Click.

Made by

James Hustler, filming, coding and post-production, from Christchurch, New Zealand.

Boilerplate

Written to be pasted as is

Both versions carry the same live counts as the fact sheet above, so whichever you copy is current.

Short

Explore POV is a curated library of cinematic VR180 travel films, shot by hand in up to 16K across 22 destinations. Named Apple Vision Pro App of the Year 2025, it also plays in the headset browser on Meta Quest, Samsung Galaxy XR, PICO and desktop, with no app to install.

Full

Explore POV is a curated library of 214 cinematic VR180 experiences, filmed by hand in up to 16K across 22 destinations, the Apple Immersive ones on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive. Apple named it Vision Pro App of the Year at the 2025 App Store Awards, and its films are featured in Apple's Spatial Gallery. The library also streams through WebXR: as of August 2026, 211 of the 214 experiences play on Meta Quest, Samsung Galaxy XR, PICO and desktop straight from the headset browser, with no app to install. Launched in 2024 from Christchurch, New Zealand, Explore POV has passed 100,000 downloads.

Assets

Download what you need

Cleared for editorial use with credit to Explore Immersive. If you need something that is not here, ask us and we will cut it for you.

Logos & brand Explore POV and Explore Immersive marks, SVG and PNG, light and dark. ZIP · 241 KB Product screenshots App interface and destination previews. ZIP · 11.1 MB Lifestyle imagery Headsets in use and location stills from the shoots. ZIP · 12.3 MB Founder headshots Portraits of James Hustler, studio and in the field. ZIP · 5.5 MB App of the Year assets 2025 App Store Award imagery and badges. ZIP · 8.7 MB B-roll clip Capture footage showing how the films are shot. MP4 · 18.5 MB Headset browser banner Key art for the August 2026 announcement, as used above. JPG · 2560 × 1440

Press kit

Logos, screenshots, lifestyle imagery, headshots, and b-roll are available in the full press kit, alongside our company background and the university research work.

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Media contact

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