Waddle 2.0 Puts Mars Around You on Vision Pro

Developer Berk Mervan Erenci released the Mars update on August 3 and shared it with the Vision Pro community (opens in a new tab). Waddle (opens in a new tab) costs $9.99 in the US App Store (opens in a new tab), and version 2.0 requires visionOS 26.0 or later.

How Mars mode works

Waddle began as a way to explore Google Street View on Vision Pro. Mars mode keeps that tap-to-teleport idea but replaces city streets with rover stops, each tied to its sol, the mission’s count of Martian days, and landing-site coordinates.

The stops use photographs rather than a rendered environment. Each view is still a constructed panorama. NASA’s first high-definition 360-degree view from Perseverance (opens in a new tab) joined 142 individual images captured by the rover into one scene on Earth.

Moving through Jezero means selecting another rover stop and waiting a moment for its panorama to render.

Why it feels convincing

Seeing Perseverance up close and tracing its wheel tracks across the ground is incredibly cool. The rover gives the panoramas a sense of scale and makes experiencing Mars this way genuinely amazing.

NASA says a river flowed into a lake inside Jezero about 3.5 billion years ago. Its ancient delta may preserve evidence of past microbial life, giving every Perseverance panorama (opens in a new tab) a place in a much larger mission.

Keeping those views connected to Perseverance’s route turns NASA’s image archive into a journey through the mission.

What is next

Erenci says more Mars locations are coming, while SharePlay, guided tours, Wikipedia links, and custom trips remain on the roadmap.