The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

I'm cautiously optimistic about the Vision headset, personally. I'm hoping it will make headset computing easier, but it's such a limited device I'm not sure what would even run on it. Just a higher resolution Quest? We'll see...

Re: The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

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Post by baudaux » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:07 PM UTC

I imagine https://exaequos.com in the Vision Pro for running web applications

Re: The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

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Post by newsclues » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:08 PM UTC

My boomer mom will love photos in this once it’s ready for consumers

Re: The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

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Post by PaulHoule » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

WebXR is pretty amazing. You can make a site with

https://aframe.io/

which can be navigated with a browser on desktop and mobile. Using a VR headset you can give permission and… you’re in the world! It’s like one of those kids TV shows where people can jump into the world of a book.

With WebXR you can make applications that run on Meta Quest, Magic Leap 2, Hololens 2, PCVR and other platforms. It kinda drives me up the wall that so many people are hung up on Apple because AVP competes with quite a few different platforms that are all pretty similar and if this kind of thing catches on you’d better believe people will be porting applications between them…

Re: The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

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Post by rado » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:15 PM UTC

Hopefully it will help promote the accessible and performant native web, because flaws and accessibility issues will be more glaring in VR: https://rado.bg/native-web-in-apple-vision-pro/

Re: The web will be Vision Pro's killer app

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Post by kemayo » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:16 PM UTC

anoncow wrote: post #3

Apple won't allow it.

Won't allow what? All the Safari features this article is talking about are already present on the Vision Pro, and they've also already been improving their PWA support in recent macOS/iOS releases.

The questionable bit is whether they'll change their tune on browser engines on iOS/visionOS, but that's not essential for the article's argument.