Google has now determined to not launch its app on the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset. It’s following the footsteps of Netflix because it determined to not launch a devoted app for Apple’s highly-anticipated blended actuality (MR) headset ‘Imaginative and prescient Professional’.
What this implies is that to entry YouTube and watch YouTube movies, customers must undergo the online browser. Having mentioned that, customers must depend on Apple’s Safari internet browser.
“We’re excited to see Imaginative and prescient Professional launch, and we’re supporting it by guaranteeing YouTube customers have a fantastic expertise in Safari,” a YouTube spokesperson was quoted as saying.
YouTube hasn’t revealed the explanation behind this resolution and it’s additionally unclear if the corporate plans to help Imaginative and prescient Professional sooner or later. That’s most likely since to launch an app on Imaginative and prescient Professional, YouTube could should setup a brand new staff. That could possibly be a expensive course of.
Apparently, YouTube provides an app for the rival headset Meta Quest. Netflix previosuly confirmed that it’s going to not make a separate app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional. For the unversed, YouTube additionally has an iPad app model which hasn’t been up to date lengthy. YouTube additionally appear to not have plans to switch its present iPad model, the report mentioned.
Quite a few different corporations, like Meta-owned Instagram, Fb, Threads, and WhatsApp, may additionally be holding off on releasing suitable apps, as per the Macstories. Not simply YouTube and Netflix, however a slew of apps shall be lacking on the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset. Bumble, Snapchat, Roku, YouTube Music, and Lyft are amongst different lacking apps.
Listed below are among the apps that shall be accessible on the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
A complete of twenty apps, together with TikTok, Disney+, Max, Discovery+, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, and Peacock, amongst others, would be the first to supply leisure experiences on the headset.
Apple will launch the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset within the US on February 2. The headset went for pre-booking earlier at this time within the aforesaid area. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is priced beginning $3,499 with 256GB of storage. Pre-orders for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional have now begun.
— Written with inputs from IANS
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