There are already greater than 600 devoted apps for Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, however YouTube is not certainly one of them. And final month the Google-owned service outright mentioned it had completely no plans to develop such an app.
How a couple of weeks can change issues. Right now YouTube did a 180 and instructed The Verge that it is obtained a Imaginative and prescient Professional app “on the roadmap”. Sadly it did not wish to say once we ought to anticipate the app to land on Apple’s headset. Within the meantime, YouTube says it is supporting the Imaginative and prescient Professional “by making certain YouTube customers have an awesome expertise in Safari”.
That is fairly the event – it isn’t customary for corporations to disclaim any curiosity in a brand new product the way in which YouTube did final month, and it is even much less of an strange incidence for them to vary their minds so shortly.
It is unclear why that occurred. Maybe the Imaginative and prescient Professional proved to be way more fashionable than Google and YouTube had initially anticipated? Or possibly all of it has to do with the recognition of a $5 third-party YouTube app that already exists for the Imaginative and prescient Professional and the way that is No.3 within the Photograph & Video class within the App Retailer downloads for the headset.
We’ll most likely by no means know for certain, however the level is – if you’d like an official app, you are getting one. At any time when that lands, it is unlikely to help 360-degree and VR YouTube movies – these already on YouTube and never created for the Imaginative and prescient Professional – since none of them work in Safari both. That is as a result of Apple thinks they don’t seem to be adequate.
An Apple spokesperson mentioned: “A lot of this content material was created for gadgets that don’t ship a high-quality spatial expertise. In some circumstances, this content material may additionally trigger movement discomfort. We have targeted our efforts on delivering the very best spatial media expertise potential together with spatial images and movies, Apple Immersive Video, and 3D motion pictures obtainable on Apple TV”.
