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It means you'll use a third party app to watch content, just like you do for pretty much every type of content on iPhone and Android.

Just no one has published one for Apple vision yet, because no one has had one.

Judging by how iOS STILL doesn't natively support WebM, I suppose it will never have support outside specific apps.

So fucking annoying to find a good meme and send it on Signal, only to see my friend reply "doesn't play" for the hundredth time.

Fuck Apple.

Kind of? But hot take - their format is actually better for flat content. They seem to want people to use their "spatial video" format which seems like it can be just two videos in a QuickTime or MP4 container. It wouldn't surprise me if you could just use ffmpeg to convert whatever into their format pretty dang quickly. It's actually just MV-HEVC.

Most 3D video right now is one video track with two distorted videos either side by side for flat or 180 content, or top and bottom for most 360 content. It gets encoded and played back as standard flat video and then the player does the splitting and dewarping for the headset (or for flat just correcting the aspect ratio). They don't seem to support doing any of that in their built in player.

Instead, with MV-HEVC, they encode one eye as the "main" video track, and do deltas to get the other eye, giving you way better resolution since you aren't splitting the frame in half, and better efficiency since you aren't encoding essentially the same image twice (theoretically you could have a codec that could couple copy a big chunk of the frame like that but I'm not aware of any that actually do). It also means if you play it back in 2d you just get a normal video instead of a weird distorted mess, and you can swap to the other eye if you player supports multi track video. They also do some clever stuff with captions in 3d too.

It doesn't seem like they support any sort of immersive 3d video (i.e. 180 or 360 degree fov) in their player at all, but I haven't looked at it a ton. I mostly just took a glance at their developer stuff. It seems like a very apple thing to do since 180/360 video is difficult to do right.

The built-in video player doesn't support side-by-side stereoscopic video formats. The title of the article should state that the AVP does not play certain 3D video formats out of the box, making the story about porn is just a weird pivot to generate clicks.

However there is already at least one third party app that plays SBS video just fine. You can also convert SBS video to MV-HEVC, which is arguably a better 3D format, and use the built-in player.

according to my quick googling, it can play some but not all media files...

No, the article is wrong. I’ve played a bunch of videos, 2D and 3D, and it works fine. The players that launched in the App Store are the issue.

Hard disagree

I could not disagree more. It’s like I’m actually motor-boating three beautiful women’s massive bosoms at the same time. And it’s like they’re all really sitting on my face. I’m using a Quest though so I’m not sure if there’s a difference. Just make sure you’re using large file sizes. 10GB+.

I find it fine with my Quest 2. Like I’m not gonna replace all masturbating with VR but it’s fun occasionally.

Can’t agree more. It was near the first time, and it was the same time that I realized it’s just not that great when it’s nothing but visual stimuli and no interaction of any sort. I’d enjoy it more if they made it more of a voyeur experience where I could move around the room and watch.

Budget issue I think, it's really not affordable to purchase both a VR headset and a receptacle that's more complex than a fleshlight on a sawhorse.

This is a shame. I have a 3D blu ray of Dredd that I have been unable to watch in 3D since the 3D TV fad died about a decade ago.

Someone will make an app.

Apple has never had their own apps focus on supporting non-standard formats. This isn't anything unusual.

Does it enable VR porn though? I don't think they are saying that the vision pro can't play videos, but that it doesn't support the stereoscopic ones.

The Archive

Is that just an AVP app or an actual resource on the web some of us should be aware of?

Sounds like this might must be a video format issue, and there are a LOT of apps in the App Store that play videos that are not natively supported by the OS. I don’t see why Apple wouldn’t continue to approve apps that support other formats and codecs.

No porn and general indifference to gaming. The tech is really cool, but I still don't know what this thing is for .

If you read the article, this has nothing to do with porn.

The built-in video player doesn't support SBS 3D video, but third party apps do.

Apple will do what it always has done. All the media players and let the user add whatever content they want. It’s been this was for years on iOS and iPad OS.

There is no shortage of media players that will play nudie vids in codecs that QuickTime doesn’t support out of the box.

It’s a v1 product. Apple is banning VR porn, it just doesn’t have a massive app ecosystem yet. The product is days old and has a small market.

We don't read the articles. Most of the time it's just some AI generated crap and all the filler is in the headline anyway, or indeed pay/privacy-walled off like this one.

Here's a free one though.

https://kotaku.com/apple-vision-pro-vr-price-porn-nsfw-1851227294