Early Apple Vision Pro adopters alarmed to learn VR porn doesn't work

But that's because Apple has never cared to support on-device video viewing on their mobile devices outside the gallery app. They think people only use streaming apps and websites to consume videos so they haven't bothered with it.

I'm sure we will get VLC on the Vision Pro or something similar that will take care of it. Platforms that publish 360 content will have to distribute their own custom solutions

An alternative hypothesis: they're working on a proprietary format that only works on Apple products with no intention of spreading it to the wider indistry. They've got a long history of it (itunes drm on mp3s, iMessage, lightning and various other ports, Airdrop)

> The multiview extension of HEVC (MV-HEVC) provides support for coding multiple views with inter-layer prediction. It is was designed as a high-level syntax only extension to allow reuse of existing decoder components.

If it was just a container, you’d need 2x independent HEVC data streams decoded independently into 2x video streams. It sounds like MV-HEVC is a single encoded data stream decoded into multiple video streams.

Perhaps they did not use specifically porn as the reason for not supporting it, but in any case this is hard to explain otherwise than a measure to make difficult the use of any content that is not provided through Apple, i.e. if this is not anti-porn it is at least an anti-competitive measure.

Honestly, I find them refreshing. Granted, this isn't a technology problem probably so much as an app problem, but in general, the fact that you can't easy find sketchy apps on the App Store easily makes it far easier for me to bring into a family environment.

What's _ironic_ about this is that iTunes/Apple Music will gladly show you pornographic music videos/album covers/music EVEN IF you try to avoid them. I contact Apple Support a few months ago because we were listening to one album and then the infinite playlist started spewing lyrical garbage over my speakers.

I'm glad we have the Classical app now, because at least that is curated but heck even the kids playlists on Apple Music are pretty iffy at times.

Like Death Stranding is out now and it's 17+ but is there any check? Does Apple just not want to take on the requirement of doing that check? (Which honestly is kinda valid, can you imagine how certain places would react if Apple allowed kids to download a pornhub app?).

But it is still unfortunate, especially the impacts it has also had on non porn apps but similarly restricted apps like Grindr.