If you want to measure the success of a platform, a good way to do so is to see who is developing apps for it. visionOS is officially only a few weeks old, and there is currently debate over Netflix and YouTube’s refusal to create specific apps for Vision Pro.
But now there is important news: TikTok launched a visionOS version of its social network, perfectly suited to be used in spatial computing. And that, when it comes to TikTok, is an important sign.
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It’s TikTok for visionOS
The service officially announced the application from your X account, calling it a “space application.” And it looks like there was some work behind that, because looking at the screenshots, the greater interface freedom we have with the Vision Pro has been taken into account.
Although it is an application based on vertical videos adapted to iPhone screens, TikTok uses spatial windows with dimensions that go beyond of what we see in the iOS 17 app. As you can see in the screenshot above, you have the option to see a video’s comments in a side panel of the video.
If you prefer to view only video for a more compact interface, you can do so with Separate buttons and optionsfreeing from morra the vertical video viewer. Of course, you can enlarge this viewer as you wish.
The Search window is perhaps the best example of the flexibility that visionOS brings, whose windows can adapt to any type of content and distribution you need. In this case, you have a vertical video grid as your search results list. TikTok can be downloaded for free to Vision Pros from the visionOS App Store. For now in the United States, of course.
The most important thing is to make room
The fact that TikTok decided to create this app sends an interesting message. This is not only good news for the future prospects of visionOS, which has just seen how one of the most used social networks in the world lands in a place only accessible from the United States. It is also a message: an application that has even been involved in political debates around the world has made the effort to land within Vision Pro.
TikTok is working to compete more directly with YouTube. So now being on a platform where videos look better than on any other device is an exciting step. They want to be where Apple wants to go, and they want to be pioneers in that area. Netflix and YouTube will be left behind if they decide to do the same.
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