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Apple is shipping WebXR on Safari for Vision Pro [video]

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Of course. Because the number one use of VR is porn. All the porn sites support WebXR based video playback

It is puzzling to me why the international default is to ban anything which causes people to feel horny, or which helps to release those feelings. Horny is a taboo feeling in most, if not all, mainstream contexts.

Pearl clutching parents leading to PR disasters?

It's a mostly USA policy.

It exists in other countries too, but is far less strong.

I don’t believe this is true. The government and businesses of India and China are both notoriously sexually conservative. That’s a majority of humanity right there.

I was part of the Mozilla team that kickstarted the WebVR spec that predates WebXR. I’ve been also maintaining A-Frame (Framework to develop Web based AR/VR experiences) for more than 8 years. This announcement makes me so happy. It’s been a decade long effort.

Been following your efforts for a while, and this feels like a big win to me.

Thanks. It’s indeed a big big win

Congratulations for your amazing work on A-Frame! So cool they featured it so prominently!

As a VisionPro owner, I was pretty surprised when I first used it that WebXR wasn't supported out of the box.

It's an amazing piece of hardware. But they have really dropped the ball on software -- so far.

WebXR has been in Safari for Vision Pro since day one but disabled by default behind a flag. It’s the usual process that browser vendors follow to ship new APIs. In the fall it will be enabled by default for everyone.

The software sucks because it’s just iPadOS with windows and iPadOS sucks. Yes, it’s the best iPad you can buy but at the end of the day iPadOS is incredibly limiting and visionOS is no different.

I really wanted to like my AVP and I was even ok with MVD being the only thing I used it for but even that was lackluster. I spent the rest of my time fighting with apps that felt like limited toys instead of a step forward in productivity.

Maybe if MVD gets as sharp as “native” apps I could use it and bypass the limitations of the AVP OS but I just don’t see visionOS getting much better. Look at iPadOS and how long it’s had to improve and it still is the limiting factor (not the hardware). An M* in a MBP runs circles around the same M-chip in an iPad.

I say all of this as a huge Apple fan who uses iPads as part of my business (I own over 40 iPads) and I bought the AVP at launch (then returned it).

I'm genuinely surprised and impressed that WebXR is moving forward in a big way with VisionOS 2! Also impressed to see the continued work to have a standard that works across such a wide array of devices.

Great to see Apple (still) supporting WebXR. I hope support like this will move WebXR forward.

This was behind a flag since last year. Sadly no immersive-ar still, which means no passthrough when in WebXR app.

AR mode will come. Rendering directly on the frame buffer with video pass through is not yet available on native either. It makes sense that Apple wants to keep platform consistency.

WebXR!!!

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