First footage shows X-Plane 12 on Vision Pro, including an ARKit trick in action

Zac Hall | Mar 11 2026 - 6:54 am PT

Yesterday we learned that the “world’s most advanced flight simulator” will soon work with Apple Vision Pro. Now we have a first look at how the experience will look, including how ARKit intelligently handles physical controls.

X-Plane 12 is coming to Apple Vision Pro through a companion app this spring. Support will be enabled by visionOS 26.4, which supports Nvidia CloudXR 6.0 technology. The flight simulator will stream in mixed reality to Apple Vision Pro from X-Plane 12 on the Mac, Windows, or Linux.

Now Spatial Insider creator Justin Ryan has shared a first look at how X-Plane 12 works on Apple Vision Pro.

Here’s a first look at X-Plane 12 on Apple Vision Pro!

With visionOS 26.4 and NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0, the simulator streams wirelessly at up to 4K/120fps to your headset.

And if you have a physical yoke or throttle, ARKit uses image detection to recognize them and place them inside… pic.twitter.com/FTYzJH9ALP
— Justin Ryan ᯅ (@justinryanio) March 11, 2026

As announced yesterday, the experience supports showing your physical yoke or throttle using ARKit for a more realistic perspective.

Here’s to hoping for more simulators in the future. Apple’s F1 partnership with Apple TV is just begging for a racing sim to arrive.