YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

[tennisproha]

Juno is what seems to have forced Google to stop dragging their feet and launch the YouTube app.

 

[pbau]

Finally!

I hope the 8k content on youtube wll be more popular (with the higher bitrate)

 

[lovehateapple]

No matter which direction I turn, there are ads for medications I don't need. Stop telling me about sudden limb loss and redness between my anus and genitals!

You can pay for ad free YouTube, if you want.

 

[mtnr]

Good news for the small Vision Pro ecosystem but...brutal that you need an M5 version to do it. Even an M1 can play 8k content, but the additional overheard of running VisionOS must be too much for the M2 in this device.

 

[dcingie]

cannot wait to be immersed in 360° ads. The future is here and it’s bright.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Good news for the small Vision Pro ecosystem but...brutal that you need an M5 version to do it. Even an M1 can play 8k content, but the additional overheard of running VisionOS must be too much for the M2 in this device.

M5 has hardware AV1 decoding, M2 does not. YouTube uses AV1 encoding.

 

[Graphikos]

Holy crap... hell froze over. I'm not saying I'll use the AVP more because of this.. but I do think I'll use this when I'm strapped in.

 

[kaycrystal626]

Too bad most of the Spatial video contents on YouTube sucks! The 360 videos are bunch of amateur videos.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Apple: OK Google, we’re choosing Gemini for our AI server
Google: Excellent. Here’s YouTube for Vision Pro as a thank you.

This is likely not far from the truth. Google likely has many things like this ready to go, just waiting for policy changes or to be used as leverage.

I bet they have an iOS build of Chrome with their own engine in it fully up to date and just ready for Apple to be forced to allow it.

 

[lovehateapple]

cannot wait to be immersed in 360° ads. The future is here and it’s bright.

If the ads are funny and / or entertaining any 360° immersive content is okay with me. I especially don't mind ads if it means I don't have to pay (directly) out of pocket for content. Certain limits and exclusions apply of course.

 

[CBlakeston]

Everyone here understands you’ve been able to watch YouTube just fine in safari, Netflix too, without native apps, right? You’re all talking like YouTube was blocked and is now suddenly available.

 

[sleep/to/dream]

Crazier is buying a $3500 device only to realize Google hasn’t put out a YouTube app for it. I feel like Google may have intentionally held off, hoping for Apple to fail in a market they themselves struggle with.

Yep, it’s awkward when you’re relying on your competitor like that lol. Notice the youtube app for iPhone still hasn't been updated for Liquid Glass, and it is a battery hog, even in data saver quality

If it wasn't for my youtube addiction i would have been fine with the battery life on the Air, but alas...

 

[CBlakeston]

Crazier is buying a $3500 device only to realize Google hasn’t put out a YouTube app for it. I feel like Google may have intentionally held off, hoping for Apple to fail in a market they themselves struggle with.

You do realise you can watch YouTube just fine on Vision Pro without a native app? Safari even separates the elements out into 3D space so it looks like the native quest YouTube app.

 

[centauratlas]

I still think headsets that simulate the massive theater presentations ARE the future of viewing. Especially with everyone living in parents basements, or small apt living with 5 room-mates and your bedroom is a closet. They just need to be at the quality level where they are perceptively indistinguishable from the real deal. They also need to cost next to nothing. Be a commodity item. I absolutely they will be one day as cheap as any 55" TV today.

I am just curious if everyone is downstairs, who is living in the non-basement portion of the place? 🙂

Kidding aside, I wonder if it will be headsets that are the future or 3d projection. Certainly the current generation of headsets aren't the most comfortable of things (at least to me).

 

[surferbob]

I wish Apple would sell Refurb vision pros. It seems there was a lot of returns with the old model but yet we have never seen them on the refurb store. I would love to buy one but can't afford $3500

 

[Rychiar]

If you block tags.tiqcdn.com, via pi-hole, or adblocker or whatever, it won't save your watch location.

Took me forever to figure it out on my home network.

I don't have any kinda blockers setup. their app on Vision Pro is just defective

 

[Farquar]

Why would one app’s availability define a device’s entire use? That’s like saying $1,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for an iPhone, or $5,000 to watch YouTube is crazy for a Mac Pro — that’s just one of the many things you can use those devices for.

But you can actually do other things on those devices.

 

[cardfan]

Too bad most of the Spatial video contents on YouTube sucks! The 360 videos are bunch of amateur videos.

That's pretty much youtube..lol

 

[Karma*Police]

You mean the tens of billions that Apple wasted… I mean, spent on ATV+ wasn’t enough entertainment?

 

[Trausner]

Couldn’t watch VR videos in VR. Would either show as a 2D video, or side by side 2D instead of composited as a 3D video.

I just watched a youtube video where someone watched a 3D videos with the new youtube app on Apple Vision Pro. Are you saying that these videos are not actually in 3D? Is it possible to watch Spatial Videos on YouTube? Is there a way to upload Spatial Videos from the Apple Vision Pro to the new youtube app? I just tried that on my iphone 15 pro but it just showed the video in 2D not stereoscopic. I wonder if there will ever be a standard that all VR headsets can work with?

 

[roklanhavok]

This was probably part of the deal in getting Apple to choose Gemini for AI.

 

[jole]

Incidentally, both of your examples were able to watch YouTube since initial launch. The original iphone famously came with a pre-installed youtube client.

Google needed to slow down Vision Pro adoption to get time to develop a competitor for what they perceived to potentially be the next big platform after smartphones.

 

[Kidseeghost]

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[jole]

Even an M1 can play 8k content, but the additional overheard of running VisionOS must be too much for the M2 in this device.

Battery and cooling when lacking HW decoder…

 

[Loismustdie1]

I am so stoked for this! I can't wait to download this when I get home!!!!!