Gregory's ServerYouTube wouldn't build an app for the Apple Vision Pro, so I did! Introducing Juno, an Apple Vision Pro app for YouTube, now available at http://juno.vision 📺🥽
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 @christianselig so clutch, thanks for doing this. Will be buying first thing tomorrow when I pickup the headset. @christianselig this looks so great Christian! So excited to try this tomorrow. You made an app for the streaming service I use the most by far, and it looks incredibly slick! And here's a quick overview video showing it in action. I'm looking forward to trying it on an actual device tomorrow, I really feel like Apple Vision Pro is going to make such an amazing YouTube experience 🥳 Also, there will no doubt be some bugs, out of a combination of a mad rush plus only having simulator access (until tomorrow morning), but let me know your feedback and I'll be on it! @christianselig Can you tweak the video playback window so the corner radius is smaller (like what AVPlayerViewController does on visionOS)? That way less content from the edge is cropped 🙏   @finnvoorhees @khaost yeah, UIViewController has preferredContainerBackgroundStyle which can be set to .hidden  @christianselig I have no interest in buying a gen 1 Vision Pro, but am very pleased in what you’ve come up with here. Lots of people have said their ideas need a lot of tweaking when seen in hardware, looking forward to seeing how Juno evolves 😄  @christianselig Will you be able to detect 360° videos and play them immersively?  @christianselig Love all your work! My first thought after reading about the new app was what will happen if Youtube restricts the API or starts charging money for it’s use? Are you setting yourself up for the same problems down the road? Why not create an app for Peertube (preferably open source)? @christianselig Nice! One more thing to maybe look into: YouTube supports 3D videos and there are channels that upload 3D content that works great in other headsets. Would be nice if your player could show them in 3D if it doesn’t already!  @christianselig currently YouTube doesn’t really take advantage of the device . There isn’t even a dedicated app. You can use the browser and still watch in 4k and all.   @christianselig will you eventually build in a little movie theatre like Apple has with Apple+? (Kinda mad Apple won’t just let every video playback app use that theatre. It looks cool!) @christianselig I’m definitely buying as soon as my Vision Pro gets off the UPS truck today. Thank you! @jaytorres @christianselig how do you get the translucent window material in web views in VisionOS? Is it just a matter of using background: transparent? @christianselig while I do not have Apple Vision Pro, I do appreciate a good tune https://youtu.be/tD4Wr3kRsoA  @christianselig Immediately bought. I can’t actually try it yet but it’ll be the first third-party thing I use when I get mine tomorrow! @christianselig this is brilliant! Congrats on making the store in day 1 on such short development cycle, that’s definitely going on my device. @christianselig The fact that this is so close to JonoVision makes me smile :) If it was on purpose - slow clap!  @christianselig you never fail to impress Christian. Unless you’re picking the pizza. @christianselig Apple TV next please! I would pay a subscription fee for a YouTube app that used the native Apple player on tvOS  @christianselig enviornment idea for when you have the time to make them: the zoo shown in “Me at the zoo” @christianselig “this app is only available for Apple vision” interesting. Apple vision confirmed early 2025. Starting at $1599  @christianselig if only there was a way to use it on other Apple Platforms that also don’t have a native App, like MacOS for Apple Silicon and MacOS for Intel… @christianselig I’ve always respected your attentiveness to the user base, dev skills, and general handling of the whole Reddit situation, and I figured you’d find a new niche quickly, but I’m thrilled to see you release this! @christianselig given your terrible experience with Reddit api changes, are you worried at all about building again on another company’s api? Interested in how you think about this given the trauma.  @christianselig well, as soon as I get my VP, I’ll have to snag this too! @christianselig looks amazing, but I think you forgot a digit in front of the first one in the price! 😝  @christianselig Juno looks great, but unfortunately I don’t have the full $3,604 to spare. I do, however, have $5 I’d be eager to part with if you were ever to make a version for iOS. An amazing independent client for YouTube is needed for all the same reasons that Apollo was needed for Reddit. The current crop of them is pretty awful. Congrats on having a great looking app on launch day! |
I wrote a blog post with an overview all about Juno, its features, and how it works if you're curious! https://christianselig.com/2024/02/introducing-juno/