Identical to Netflix, YouTube additionally isn’t constructing a local app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional. Its iPad app gained’t help the $3,499 headset, both, as YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby tells The Verge, “YouTube customers will have the ability to use YouTube in Safari on the Imaginative and prescient Professional.”
These aren’t the one main providers that gained’t have devoted apps on the Imaginative and prescient Professional. A supply accustomed to the scenario tells Bloomberg that Spotify isn’t planning to create a brand new app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional and “doesn’t count on to allow its iPad app to run on the machine,” doubtlessly forcing customers to entry Spotify in an internet browser.
Spotify spokesperson Gray Munford tells The Verge that the corporate can’t verify this report and that Spotify has “made no announcement regarding plans for the Imaginative and prescient Professional.”
Out of the 46 hottest apps on the App Retailer, none of them may have a local visionOS app at launch, in line with findings from MacStories. This checklist might at all times change — and among the apps will nonetheless provide Imaginative and prescient Professional help by way of their present apps on iPhone and iPad — however the lack of native apps simply weeks away from the Imaginative and prescient Professional launch isn’t significantly encouraging.
The Verge reached out to Google and Spotify with a request for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will launch with 3D motion pictures from Disney Plus in addition to help for a number of different streaming apps, like Amazon Prime Video, Max, Paramount Plus, Pluto TV, Peacock, and others. Whereas Spotify doesn’t seem to be an enormous omission from a mixed-reality headset, the absence of devoted Netflix and YouTube apps might definitely make the machine much less enticing for customers who’re anticipating to make use of the headset as their very own immersive media participant.
Replace January 18th, 6:06PM ET: Added a remark from Spotify.