Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work
404media.coDoes this mean that the Vision Pro just can't play side by side videos (of any sort), or is it specifically filtering out porn?
I'm surprised there's not just an app that can play those videos...?
According to the article, the Vision Pro will not play common side by side videos. It has its own standard ("WebXR clips"), but nobody distributes these, and videos from that standard are also not playing correctly on the device.
Most likely there won't be any app that plays porn videos because Apple will not allow them. From the article:
> Steve Jobs notoriously believed that the company had a “moral responsibility” to block porn and suggested that “folks who want porn can buy an Android.”
And general movie playing apps might also be required to implement a porn filter. Remember Apple insisted that all Reddit and Tumblr apps have such a filter, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed in the Apps Store, the only way to distribute apps.
If you believe tech battles are decided whether there is access to porn (VHS vs Beta comes to mind), the Apple Vision Pro currently doesn't look like a winner.
> If you believe tech battles are decided whether there is access to porn (VHS vs Beta comes to mind)...
That didn't really happen, to quote from a post from the host of Technology Connections:
> "I didn't include a section on "how lack of porn killed Beta" because _this is a myth_. Many people have heard tales that Sony didn't allow porn to be released on Beta, and that's nothing but an urban legend. There was indeed "back-room" content available on Beta, but far far less of it simply because fewer people had Beta machines than VHS. Porn represented a small percentage of sales on both VHS and Beta, so it's unlikely many people based their decision on what format to buy based on availability of adult content."
The myth reverses cause and effect.
There are already apps in the (non AVP) App Store that support playing porn, such as PLAYA. They will come to AVP soon, and the current VR porn sites will no doubt get their act together on WebXR as well...
Isn't it constrained as to what apps it can run atm?
The first company to make such a device cheap enough and unfiltered, will rake in the cash.
You can watch whatever you want on a Quest, even my old Windows Mixed Reality works for such a purpose. I don't think porn availability is going to change much since it hasn't already.