Apple’s Vision Pro: A Revolutionary $3,500 Headset Redefining Home and Office Computing
Reuters, February 3 Apple’s Vision Pro has the potential to revolutionize both home and office computer use and television viewing, placing the headset as a potential replacement for both the Mac and traditional television.
The $3,500 headset, which combines a view of the outer world with three-dimensional digital information, went on sale this Friday at the company’s physical U.S. locations.
It joins a congested market that is already crowded with less expensive competitors from Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, HTC (2498.TW), and others who have largely stayed in the video gaming business and failed to acquire a broad audience.
Apple’s Vision Pro App Dilemma: Netflix and YouTube Opt Out, Spotify Follows Suit
Apple’s efforts to court developers have yielded mixed results. One of the most widely used consumer video apps, Netflix, announced late Friday that it will not be developing a new app for the Vision Pro.
However, users of the device can still stream movies and series using the web browser.
In a Bloomberg story, YouTube—which was not immediately reachable for comment—stated that users can utilize the Safari web browser in place of a new app that it does not intend to release for the iPhone.
A person acquainted with the situation claims that Spotify, a music streaming service, has not created an app for the product’s introduction either.
The expensive gadget has hard-to-manufacture screens and specialized processing processors that competitors do not. After testing the headset, analysts speculate that these qualities may put nearly all large two-dimensional screens at home or at work at risk.
Walt Disney (DIS.N), opens new tab has been secretly collaborating with Apple on an app for the debut of the Vision Pro for years; this is only the most recent project in the two firms’ history of working together.
Apple’s Vision Pro: Disney’s Immersive Entertainment; Exploring New Storytelling Frontiers
Disney Entertainment Chief Technology Officer Aaron LaBerge stated, “When we saw this, it became evident it was a new canvas for how we can tell stories in a way that hasn’t been done before.”
It therefore became rather clear that we wished to take a quick action here to stretch ourselves.
Moviegoers can watch “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” from the seat of a fictitious X-34 landspeeder craft on the planet Tatooine, resembling a futuristic drive-in theater, or they can watch “Avengers: Endgame” from inside Avengers Tower in midtown Manhattan thanks to the Disney+ app, which immerses users in one of four environments.
42 Disney movies, including the successful box office titles “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Black Panther,” and “Inside Out,” are also available for viewing in 3D.
Chief technical officer at Walt Disney Studios Jamie Voris stated that directors like James Cameron of “Avatar” and Jon Favreau of “The Lion King” are eager to present stories in novel ways.
Disney is about to launch an interactive experience that allows viewers to engage with its Marvel Studios animated anthology series “What If?”, which was hinted at in a teaser video shown at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June of last year.
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