TikTok has launched a local and “reimagined” app on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, the corporate introduced on Thursday. The Imaginative and prescient Professional launched on February 2 and already has over 1,000 apps particularly designed for the brand new machine, and now one of the in style social platforms is considered one of them. Though you would watch TikTok movies through your browser on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, the brand new native app permits for a extra immersive viewing expertise.
Within the TikTok Imaginative and prescient Professional app, the navigation bar and like button are moved off-screen to permit for full video viewing, whereas the remark part and creator profiles seem as expansions on the aspect of the feed.
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Whenever you click on on the feedback part on the cellular app, they seem on high of the video, and clicking on somebody’s profile takes you to a full web page. Nevertheless, with the Imaginative and prescient Professional, you may view all of this stuff directly. TikTok says that because the Imaginative and prescient Professional removes display dimension and spatial boundaries, it permits for a way more immersive content material expertise. In consequence, you may watch a video whereas scrolling by way of feedback with out having your view minimize off, in contrast to on the cellular app.
The app allows you to watch TikTok movies in immersive places, like in Yosemite or on the moon. It additionally works with the machine’s Shared Area characteristic, which implies you may watch TikTok movies whereas engaged on different apps.
On the cellular app, the navigation bar is on the correct, however on the Imaginative and prescient Professional app, the navigation bar has been moved to the left. TikTok says it made the change with the intention to align with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional design greatest practices. The profile, share, like, feedback and sound icons are all on the correct.
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The launch of the brand new app comes a couple of weeks after a product chief at TikTok confirmed that the corporate was creating the app.
At launch, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional had 600-plus apps designed for the headset, together with Slack, Zoom, Microsoft 365 apps, Disney+. Earlier this week, Apple senior vice chairman of worldwide advertising, Greg Joswiak, revealed that the Imaginative and prescient Professional now has greater than 1,000 apps designed particularly for it. Whereas the Imaginative and prescient Professional can run greater than 1.5 million appropriate iOS and iPad apps, spatial apps constructed for the headset have been designed to leverage its particular capabilities.
It make sense for TikTok to need to present a spatial app particularly designed for the headset, particularly since different leisure/video apps like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video have completed so. YouTube, which is considered one of TikTok’s greatest rivals, has stated a Imaginative and prescient Professional app is “on the roadmap” however hasn’t supplied a selected timeline. By launching its app first, TikTok has a little bit of a bonus over YouTube.
