TikTok Enhances Social Media with VisionPro AR
The Apple Vision Pro now has a native TikTok app, providing an enhanced viewing experience with unique features tailored to Apple’s high-end headset. The app includes features such as a navigation bar and like button that are placed off-screen, ensuring an uninterrupted view of video content.
What’s Happening & Why It Matters
With the TikTok app, comment sections and creator profiles now appear as expansions alongside the feed, creating a more immersive content viewing experience. The app also integrates with the headset’s immersive environments, allowing users to watch short-form videos in various settings such as the moon or a lush forest.
TikTok also works with the Vision Pro’s Shared Space feature, allowing the app to remain in the user’s peripheral vision while they work on other tasks. The app’s location remains static, providing consistency for users when they put on the headset in the same room.
t/f Summary: What’s Next
It’s important to note that the app’s features primarily cater to content consumers rather than creators. Engadget has reached out to TikTok for more information about creator-specific features and will provide updates as they become available.
The app is available for download, but it may not be accessible for TikTok’s core user base of 10 to 19-year-olds, given the high cost of the Apple Vision Pro, which is priced at $3,500.