Watching Apple TV+ on Vision Pro (Source: Apple)
It might be a very expensive buy to just watch streaming video on, but Apple Vision Pro is going to look fantastic — for some services.
Don’t throw out your TV set yet, at least not until your Apple Vision Pro pre-order arrives on or after February 2, 2023, but the day is coming when you’ll want to. Your family may still complain, but for you as an individual, what Vision Pro will do for films and television looks like it will make you a fan.
Or at least, it will when you watch a streaming service that is fully native on Apple Vision Pro, and there are some that just will not be there.
Apple has already announced that it will have over 150 movies available to watch in 3D, with a few free documentaries and the rest bought from the Store. With or without 3D, though, Vision Pro promises extraordinary clarity — it’s a 4K TV set in front of each eye — and Apple claims it has extraordinary sound, too.
Just be sure to try out “Silo” and “Foundation,” too.
What won’t be there
Unfortunately, Netflix, the biggest streaming service in the world, won’t have an app on Apple Vision Pro. And, it isn’t allowing its iPad app to work on the device either.
That’s not a surprise, since Netflix has also refused to let its library be available through the Apple TV app, the way others have.
That means that Apple’s TV app on any platform including Apple Vision Pro can’t have a complete selection, it can’t be the one place viewers go for everything. Except it might be, as if Netflix makes it more of a chore to go look at its shows instead of Amazon Prime’s, fewer people will go.
It doesn’t seem to have been enough of a barrier that sufficient people have left Netflix for the company to reconsider. But things might be different with Apple Vision Pro, or certainly if the headset is a success.
As it stands, Netflix will be available in Apple Vision Pro through Safari. If you’ve ever watched Netflix through a browser, you know it’s fine enough. You might not be able to specify what’s different, but you would tend to go back to watching it on your TV set as soon as you could.
Netflix has not publicly confirmed this, but it’s reported to have decided that Vision Pro is not worth its spending time developing an app for it.
YouTube and Spotify won’t on Apple Vision Pro at launch either
Back when the iPhone was new, there was a YouTube app actually bundled with it and Apple featured the app heavily in advertising. That bundled app has long gone, but YouTube has its own app and it’s doubtlessly a crucial part of the firm’s business.
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