YouTube Is Finally on the Apple Vision Pro. Can We Expect More Google Apps to Come?
It took two years, but YouTube is finally an Apple Vision Pro app.
The news, announced Thursday, might come as a surprise if, like most people, you haven’t tried Apple Vision Pro. YouTube has always seemed like the perfect fit for Apple’s mixed reality device, as many videos there run in 3D, 360-degree, or immersive 180-degree formats. And yet, Google and Apple had never figured out a way to do this before. A third-party YouTube playback app, Juno, appeared shortly after Vision Pro’s initial launch, but it was removed from the App Store.
You have always had the option to watch YouTube through the Safari browser. But that experience largely lacked the immersive support for 3D and 360-degree videos offered by Google and Samsung. Galaxy XR headsetlaunched last fall, knew how to show itself.
The new YouTube app should give the Vision Pro many interesting video options, but hopefully it’s also the start of much more. Apple and Google Gemini Partnership could unlock camera-compatible AI, similar to what the Galaxy XR offers. Google’s immersive Maps app on the Galaxy XR is also fantastic. I would like both to be linked to the Vision. Perhaps YouTube is a foot in the door for the rest of Google’s app support.
