Netflix confirms it received’t have a devoted app for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

Netflix isn’t planning on releasing a devoted app for the Apple Vision Pro, nor will the corporate modify its iPad model to run on the headset. As an alternative, customers must resort to the online model, which means they will’t entry options like downloading titles for offline viewing.

“Our members will be able to enjoy Netflix on the web browser on the Vision Pro, similar to how our members can enjoy Netflix on Macs,” a Netflix spokesperson stated in a press release offered to TechCrunch.

Bloomberg reported in July that Netflix had no plans for a local app, nevertheless, that is the official affirmation from the streaming large.

Whereas the browser model ought to carry out about the identical because the iPad model, it’s a letdown for subscribers who had been trying ahead to having an immersive expertise whereas watching their favourite Netflix content material. As compared, Disney+ seems to need to outshine its rival with 4 backdrops impressed by Marvel’s Avengers Tower, the Scare Ground from Pixar’s “Monsters Inc.,” the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and a Star Wars-inspired atmosphere that includes the cockpit of Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder and the planet Tatooine.

If we take a look at Netflix’s outdated Meta Quest app, it’s not arduous to inform that the streamer possibly isn’t as invested in combined actuality headsets as different corporations. Many Quest customers have complained concerning the app’s “awful resolution,” bugs and general poor high quality.

One consumer wrote:

Picture Credit: Meta Quest Retailer

Blended actuality headsets are nonetheless area of interest merchandise and Netflix possible believes the Imaginative and prescient Professional received’t be an enormous hit with prospects – at the least not straight away — particularly given the outrageous worth level ($3,500).

The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will likely be accessible for buy on February 2 and can embody the flexibility to download and stream movies and TV shows from popular services like Disney+, Apple TV+, Max, Discovery+, Paramount+, Prime Video, Peacock, Pluto TV and Tubi, amongst others. There can even be 150 3D motion pictures accessible to lease and buy, together with “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Super Mario Bros,” “Dune” and extra. Preorders for the gadget open tomorrow, January 19, at 8 a.m. ET.