Hyra

Reading a novel and seeing its setting around you is the job Hyra does on Apple Vision Pro. Hyra is a spatial reading app that uses AI to build immersive scenes from the book you are reading, so descriptions of places and characters appear in front of you while you stay on the page.

The app generates 360 degree environments and creates scenes for individual chapters, so the surroundings change as the story moves along.

Customization options are part of the feature set too, though the details of what you can adjust are thin.

The idea is simple: the book stays the focus, and the visuals sit behind it.

That makes sense for readers of fiction with strong settings, such as fantasy or historical novels, who want more than a cover image and their own imagination.

It is built only for Apple Vision Pro, so you need that headset to use it.

Hyra also sits in the wider group of AI art and image generation tools, but its use here is narrow: turning text you read into a place you can look around in.