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Apple’s VR headset might run tweaked versions of iPad apps

by carlycue on 4/19/23, 6:07 PM with 2 comments

• by rcarr on 4/19/23, 9:17 PM

  I have been a long time Apple user and have never owned an Android but the last week or so I’ve been considering it. I’m going travelling soon and considering buying a pair of nreal air glasses to code with on the road. If I make the switch, it’s two less adapters to worry about (androids have usb c port so the glasses can plug in directly - to use with iPhone I need the Apple Display adapter and the nreal adapter for the apple adapter) but I can also run Samsung Dex and have a quasi-desktop experience using just my phone. I just wouldn’t be able to achieve the same thing with an iPhone which would be locked into the iPhone screen aspect ratio except for video playing apps - useless if I wanted to use VSCode in the browser. I’m also considering replacing my MacBook with a steam deck and using that when I need to do proper dev tasks as it would be nice to have a gaming console for downtime.

  Looking at the Samsung products on offer, they are starting to look quite appealing; at first I thought the galaxy fold was a useless gimmick but now I’m looking at it and thinking it would be useful as a small notebook for scribbling notes as well as providing a better experience for reading and video. Plus Samsung seem marginally ahead on the camera side of things. If Apple release this headset and it costs around $1500 as rumoured it’s really going to have to justify it somehow considering the nReal air is £399. I feel they need to do something big because it’s all starting to feel a bit lacklustre compared to what’s happening over in Android and Linux land.

• by throwawaymobule on 4/19/23, 9:54 PM

  I think it'd be more surprising if it didn't. Even as a feature that needs to be enabled in xcode.

  Unless someone inside Apple really hates the way android apps work on the quest.