Though it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno helps many of the options you’d count on out of a local YouTube app. You’ll be able to watch movies (clearly), scrub and skip by means of them utilizing pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the movies’ facet ratios. Shopping YouTube’s catalog can be supported (although you may’t see video feedback), and Juno can be set as much as present YouTube adverts to keep away from making Google “grumpy,” Selig writes.
Juno delivers a absolutely native visionOS UI that faucets into YouTube’s embed API, which is designed to permit movies to be embedded in exterior webpages. If you wish to browse YouTube’s video catalog, Juno pulls up a tweaked model of the YouTube web site. Apparently, the app is even intelligent sufficient to not present adverts for YouTube Premium subscribers, although it stays to be seen how Google feels a few third-party developer being accountable for an app for one among its greatest companies on a brand new piece of {hardware}. Selig notes that he didn’t use any personal/inner APIs to develop the app.
YouTube is one among various excessive profile companies alongside Spotify and Netflix that isn’t providing a local app for Apple’s new $3,499 headset at launch. In YouTube’s case, Google’s official response has been to level customers in the direction of playback in Apple’s Safari browser as a substitute, leading to an inferior viewing expertise. Apple has provided builders a option to make their present iPad apps to the Imaginative and prescient Professional (there have been reviews that Netflix’s app was accessible this fashion previous to the headset’s launch), however main builders together with Google have opted in opposition to repurposing their apps this fashion.
“Does it really feel like a wonderfully native visionOS app?” Selig writes, “Properly no, however it’s a heck of lots nicer than the web site, and to be truthful Google apps usually do their very own factor fairly than use iOS system UI, so undecided we’ll ever absolutely see that.”