Vision pro launched earlier this month with over a million iOS apps alongside over 600 native apps specifically created for visionOS. The number of these apps has steadily increased, but the biggest entrant lately is TikTok, the first social media giant to be available as a native app on Vision Pro. This version differs from what ByteDance brought to Pico 4, a device made by sister company Pico Interactive. That number has grown steadily, although the biggest entrant lately is TikTok, the first social media giant to be available as a native app on Vision Pro.
TikTok parent company ByteDance released what it calls “a newly imagined” version of its the popular video sharing platform on the $3,500 Vision Pro, which is decidedly different from the straight Android port the company brought to Pico 4, a device from sister company Pico Interactive.
The company says it’s been able to do a few things different thanks to Vision Pro’s immersive ability to break beyond the typical smartphone screen ratio, such as make a larger video search window, move the navigation bar and like button off-screen to optimize for full video viewing, and expand the comment section and creator profiles on the side of the feed.
Like many 2D apps on the headset, TikTok for Vision Pro lets you use immersive backgrounds, letting you ‘pinch to like’ and scroll away the day at the foot of Yosemite Nation Park’s El Capitan mountain, or on the Moon. Simply turn the headset’s digital crown to blend in the virtual background.
Still, the Vision Pro-native app isn’t exactly breaking from the company’s time-tested mold, as the platform’s content still serves up the standard vertical videos we’re all used to, albeit in significantly larger virtual screen than you might normally have. While viewing videos from Vision Pro is easy, uploading your own content is still in development. You can check out TikTok’s Vision Pro app in action below, courtesy
CNET:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs6h_TiBAn8