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YouTube on Vision Pro! Finally!
Some days are just good for one thing—lying in bed and doing absolutely nothing. Today happens to be one of those days! I am just lazing here. I have a Vision Pro (version two) strapped to my face, and I am watching some of my favorite shows on YouTube in all their glory on the official YouTube app for Vision Pro.
For the past two years, I have been waiting for the official app to arrive. Can you believe it has been two years since Apple launched this “headphone for the eyes”? Watching YouTube videos via the browser was fine, but it was nothing like getting a 4K (or higher bitrate) stream. The app allows you to access standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. The M5 chip version allows you to watch YouTube videos in 8K.
This release has made me so happy. I use Vision Pro pretty much all the time, and it is my favorite way to watch video streams. During the relevant sports seasons, I watch baseball, Formula One racing, and NBA games on Vision Pro. The YouTube app makes it even more indispensable for me. Now I need Plex to launch an official app, and I will be sated.
Back to recline-and-watch mode!
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone.
More on Vision Pro
What’s the Future of TV? (& What Can Apple Do about It) My 2019 essay about why VR headsets would replace both the TV and the movie theater.
Hot or Not: Our Dystopian Vision Vision Pro isn’t creating social isolation. It’s a product built for a world that was already heading there.
Why Apple’s Vision Pro Will Change Movie-Watching From drive-ins to multiplexes to your face. The economics and culture of how we watch movies are shifting again.
I Want My Vision Pro(TV)! Why I believe Vision Pro is Steve Jobs’s parting gift, a $3,500 replacement for a reference-quality home theater.
What Does Vision Pro Have in Common with a T1 Connection? My first night with the device, and why it reminded me of experiencing high-speed internet for the first time in the mid-1990s.
Vision Pro & Lessons of the MacBook Air The original Air was expensive and underpowered too, and it became Apple’s best-selling laptop. Vision Pro will follow the same arc.
I mentioned to Gruber as well that TubularPro is available on Vision Pro for almost a year now. It’s such a nice app. Also, Supercut is available for longer than that time for Netflix/Amazon Prime. Gruber was unaware of these.
I have had issues with SuperCut so gave on it.
I see a huge potential to the Vision Pro for viewing videos and also the product to enable consumers to do more diy projects.
The biggest barriers is the price, bulky product and the limited amount of software available.
I would hope by the third iteration the product will be more widely adopted.
Like hearing aids, the product could help people with limited vision.
Coupled with AI the uses would likely expand to being essential.
Education would be enhanced if this product were more widely accessible. Image having this device and how empowered anyone in an isolated part of the world.