My custom satellite TV app works great on visionOS 👌

I can pick up a 70" virtual tv screen and wander round the house with it, or bring it to the moon or a desert island

One aspect of the Vision Pro experience that really fucking sucks is the Apple TV app.

Not because it's bad.

Because its contents are completely unavailable if Vision Pro isn't supported in your country.

That means no Apple shows, no Paramount+, no nothing. Deep links go nowhere.

You can sometimes play these TV shows and movies using the Apple TV website (but not always), but that's it.

The Apple TV experience is 75% of the value of a Vision Pro, and it's just not available to me in Ireland

I can understand the App Store not being available (though I disagree with that, too), but to lock away my access to the services I'm already paying per month for is a bit of a gut punch — especially when it's some of the only content Vision Pro *has* right now.

(I knew this going in, for the record, but now I've experienced it I want to share how I feel about it)

I’ve had the headset on for maybe 8 hours today, comfortably. It is so much heavier than the Quest 3, but there is effectively nothing in the OS that can make you motion sick…

…except for ‘Immersive View’ of spatial video. An optional mode in Photos, hidden behind a button — a button I would recommend never ever pressing, because only a couple seconds of that can make you very sick 🤮 Use it for stabilized fixed-perspective content only

This much was obvious before, but Vision Pro has a massive input problem: text entry and editing *sucks*.

I still think the platform would benefit greatly from a combined keyboard/trackpad accessory, purpose-built, and that's the kind of thing Apple could and should build

Every Apple Developer should be able to log into the developer site and order Vision Pro hardware, light seals in any size, and the developer strap. In every country.

It boggles the mind that they haven't taken this step already

FB20871373 — Every developer should be able to order Vision Pro from the developer site, in any country

#radars

I had a lot of complaints about the original version of visionOS, but they have addressed pretty much all of my most-critical feedback in the OS releases since. If they actually had a good-enough relationship with developers to fill this thing with software, it would be an incredible computing device.

With an empty App Store, though, it’s still merely an expensive toy. There are so many ways they could have fixed that in the time since launch, Apple just need to get over themselves…

The Disney environments make me wonder what Pixar could do if they made a 'movie' (short, stage play, etc) entirely in RealityKit. The Monsters Inc Scare Floor makes me feel like I'm *in* the movie. Not in VR.

There is a level of fidelity here that's impossible to describe without being there yourself. No pixels, no discernible textures or polygons. You're just… there

Testing my apps from the top of a mountain feels kinda profound 😂

Speaking of which, I did bringup on my Broadcasts 4 codebase on visionOS, which was something I wasn't planning anytime soon

I've also tried to summon the visionOS Control Center via gesture in real life, or things from across the room 💀

This is the new forgetting your Mac doesn't have a touchscreen

I know plenty of people have complained about it, but it's a little infuriating to do visionOS development with Mac Virtual Display, because every time you build and run the app is spawned where you're looking (i.e. on top of the Mac) instead of where you last carefully positioned it.

I really hope they anchor that between runs in the future