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Interesting. Why the selection of Vision Pro as the first VR app when Quest has been around for a while?

endisneigh 3y ago
Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise open to it though.
- MikeTheGreat 3y ago
  VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? That said, I'm not surprised that Apple is more lucrative. If nothing else there seems to be less free/open software on Mac and a lot more paid options.
  - joecool1029 3y ago
    > VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? Sell apps for certain platforms. Leave the source open, but have the primary appstore versions be paid. I can think of a few useful apps that do this, DAVx5 charges for the play store version but it's free on fdroid. xchat (IRC client) also used to this back in the day for their official windows build. Nothing stopped you from legally using a fork. FAST streams they probably get kickbacks from advertisers for offering, Plex does this.
    - crtasm 3y ago
      Had to look that up - "free ad-supported streaming television" https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pl...
- RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
  Apple makes a relatively small number of hardware models for their products which, per model, tend to massively outsell any possible competitor. Fewer models to test makes QA much less annoying and time-consuming.
  - vlovich123 3y ago
    That logic applies to Quest (at least currently).
- vlovich123 3y ago
  Apple devices are lucrative compared to Android. But Quest is not Android and given that app purchases on Quest are in the $20-60 range and there's 18M units, I don't buy that Apple is the better bet yet. It may be long term, but I would be waiting for Apple to prove itself first in a very unproven market.
codetrotter 3y ago
Probably they are expecting a lot more people to buy and use Vision Pro than the amount of people having and using a Quest. Also Vision Pro is about spatial computing, so perhaps it offers a better VR experience for VLC. Whereas with Quest you can probably get about as much use out of VLC as you’d like with the already existing version?
- vlovich123 3y ago
  That seems unlikely in the short term. Estimates for V1 is that they'll ship ~300k units. Quest 2 has sold 18 million. It honestly sounds more like justifying buying a Vision Pro.
callalex 3y ago
Perhaps someone on the team thought it was neat, bought one, and is now desperately trying to justify spending nearly 4 grand on their new toy.
- vlovich123 3y ago
  Yeah, I think that's probably the more accurate reason.

Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise open to it though.

MikeTheGreat 3y ago
VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? That said, I'm not surprised that Apple is more lucrative. If nothing else there seems to be less free/open software on Mac and a lot more paid options.
- joecool1029 3y ago
  > VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? Sell apps for certain platforms. Leave the source open, but have the primary appstore versions be paid. I can think of a few useful apps that do this, DAVx5 charges for the play store version but it's free on fdroid. xchat (IRC client) also used to this back in the day for their official windows build. Nothing stopped you from legally using a fork. FAST streams they probably get kickbacks from advertisers for offering, Plex does this.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    Had to look that up - "free ad-supported streaming television" https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pl...
RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
Apple makes a relatively small number of hardware models for their products which, per model, tend to massively outsell any possible competitor. Fewer models to test makes QA much less annoying and time-consuming.
- vlovich123 3y ago
  That logic applies to Quest (at least currently).
vlovich123 3y ago
Apple devices are lucrative compared to Android. But Quest is not Android and given that app purchases on Quest are in the $20-60 range and there's 18M units, I don't buy that Apple is the better bet yet. It may be long term, but I would be waiting for Apple to prove itself first in a very unproven market.

codetrotter 3y ago

Probably they are expecting a lot more people to buy and use Vision Pro than the amount of people having and using a Quest. Also Vision Pro is about spatial computing, so perhaps it offers a better VR experience for VLC. Whereas with Quest you can probably get about as much use out of VLC as you’d like with the already existing version?

vlovich123 3y ago
That seems unlikely in the short term. Estimates for V1 is that they'll ship ~300k units. Quest 2 has sold 18 million. It honestly sounds more like justifying buying a Vision Pro.

callalex 3y ago

Perhaps someone on the team thought it was neat, bought one, and is now desperately trying to justify spending nearly 4 grand on their new toy.

vlovich123 3y ago
Yeah, I think that's probably the more accurate reason.