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Apollo dev released a youtube app for Vision Pro (christianselig.com)

submitted 9 months ago by redcalcium@lemmy.institute to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Please help me understand the point of the Vision Pro? It’s not VR. And every app and screenshot I’m seeing looks like “let’s throw this window, that you could normally have on your desktop or TV in your field of view”. Are there any mechanisms to have it interact with your surrounding in an AR type manner? Or does it just overlay flat windows on top of what you’re seeing?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Afaik there are only a handful of actual AR stuff right now:

Application windows stay anchored to your environment until you reset them. If you put them on top of your desk, it'll stay there even if you move to your kitchen.
When you look at your mac, it'll sometimes pop a button to allow you to initiate virtual display to your mac.
When you look down to your bluetooth keyboard, it'll show whatever you type in a floating box complete with suggestions.

Maybe there are more I'm not aware of.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There we go! That’s some stuff that I was missing. Thank you!

[–] silas@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Here’s a guided tour of it if you want to learn more

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I want it for the virtual monitor aspect. Especially since I have adhd, I think this would possibly cut down on distractions.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It’s AR and VR in whatever mix you want it to be. The little spinny dial at the top controls how much of the real world you see vs how much of a virtual environment you see. The bottom end is full AR, the top end is full VR.

[–] 13617@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Preparation for the future. If you want an actual VR device get an oculus

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That’s it, I don’t. I want AR, but just throwing up a random flat window in my field of view without interacting with the environment is not AR. It’s just your monitor with a dynamic background.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

It's going to take time for meaningful AR apps to exist, because this is the first device even capable of testing it in a functional manner on.

But ARKit is already out there and extremely capable on iPhone. The Vision Pro will be able to do way more than the phone due to the field of view and freeing your hands.

[–] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This isn't even technically AR. It's all VR.

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mixed Reality is what this is called

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

“Spatial Computing” is what this is called. insert SpongeBob meme