Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees
Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees
Apple in July began inviting developers to Vision Pro-focused developer labs in cities that include Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore,...
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Not drawing many YET. Your app needs to be somewhat far along in development in order to need real world testing. Even Marco Arment, who makes a podcast app, has said his app is not ready yet.
Ah yes, podcasts. That thing famous for its popularity in VR/AR
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It’s a whole new OS in a new product category. You’re assuming what apps will be popular in visionOS, but since Apple is trying to make this a desktop computing platform, readers and podcast apps will be part of that platform.
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The podcast app isn’t the point when the issue is why developers aren’t signing up for early spots now and instead pushing appointments to later.
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I agree with you that "time in the oven" is wise and needed. I think putting a bit more effort into making it easier to develop would help. At the moment, it sounds like those development kits have their own challenges to entry for most devs. I also think the rate of purchase or adoption will definitely take some time.
It takes some time to become familiar with new APIs etc. But with a new product category such as AR/VR/spatial computing with so many new paradigms I would think that getting real hands on experience early is vital.
Otherwise developers end up wasting a lot of time creating concepts that ultimately don't work well in real world use. The visionOS simulator is no substitute for actually wearing a headset.
The fact that developers aren't grabbing every chance to get hands on with the hardware doesn't sound great to me. I suppose the main question is is that because Apple are not handling developer access well enough (I've seen a lot of complaints about the limited locations of the labs), or is it because developers are not interested in the platform.