I'm not surprised, even Play'a VR player doesn't work and they're on the App Store for download on Vision OS.
Apple Vision Pro Fail
GfLm Dang, that sucks. I pick mine up tomorrow.
Apple has not allowed porn on it's app store since the beginning of time. Deo maybe a VR player, but it is a not-so-cleverly disguised porn app, and everyone knows it. I doubt you'll see VR porn on Apple's overpriced headset
Wendigo I don't think it will be an issue as long as porn is not an integral part of the app. DeoVR used to be in the App Store and it served the same purpose then. VRB's Play'a is in the App Store. SLR's Haptics Connect is in the App Store and it is no problem to openly state things there like 'Added Kiiroo PowerBlow support'.
Play'a doesn't even work. It's just their iPad app claiming to be Vision OS ready but it's clearly not.
doublevr That's terrible, hopefully someone will get a video player in the app store that actually works. There's a lot of false and misleading advertising going on about the Vision Pro (VP). SLR has posted at least twice about how great Vision Pro will be, clearly talking out of their asses, since the SLR website's immersive hub cannot play WebXR videos on the VP, with no hand selection method, and no hands-free selection method. And SLR are not alone. All the front pages of one competitor's websites, who also cannot play VR videos on the Vision Pro, are literally using the Apple logo, almost certainly without Apple's consent.
See figure:
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Still claiming Play'a will work
https://vrporn.com/how-to-watch-vr-porn-on-apple-vision-pro/
While DeoVR has updated their previous blog post which was too optimistic as well
https://deovr.com/blog/80-vr-videos-on-the-apple-vision-pro
I am wondering what's the way forward towards solving this issue. Do websites like the SLR Hub need to be adapted to AVP (for example because they expect controllers but there are none)? From the DeoVR blog post, I understand DeoVR is blaming Apple for not supporting WebXR as promised and will just be waiting for Apple to fix the problem.
There's one VR website mentioned here on Reddit that plays WebXR content in Safari. The player has a limited but working hands-free way of handling viewers without VR controllers. It's not great, but it shows that all these folks making excuses, are just that, making excuses for their inability to get the job done. FYI, I've been a software developer for 18 years, so while I'm sympathetic, I also know the score.
GfLm I think this website was just lucky because they had implemented gaze-based operation of their player since cardboard days. So then the conclusion is: Safari is able to play the videos in the right way, and it's the websites' fault that you cannot press play.
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SchnuppiLilac Everyone knew the Vision Pro was coming. IMO anyone whose area of expertise is VR should have been learing and implementing WebXR “hand-tracking” features to let users interact with their content. Related post on reddit.
Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn: "3,500$ chastity belt."
[deleted] Unfortunately the posted fix didn’t work for me - please keep pushing on this, thank you so much!
"An ode to my last night suffering with being able to see the space between the pixels on my Meta Quest 3 while trying to watch VR porn, breaking my otherwise pristine immersive experience,"
Oh com on, it's not that freaking bad.
Not bad at all.
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"Apple founder Steve Jobs' hawkish anti-porn stance, which he called a "moral responsibility," seems to be holding firm with its latest big-ticket offering, making it not all that surprising that people can't download VR porn apps directly to their Vision Pros.
But as other immersive porn fans have mused, it's "pretty shocking" that they haven't been able to get web-based alternatives to work."
Smh, if that 3500 + dollar thing don't play vr porn, smh epic fail
But maybe there's hope
""As the report explains, Apple has since 2022 allowed the use of WebXR, the API that VR porn makers typically use, on its Safari browser. Vision Pro is supposed to support it as well, but it apparently doesn't. The prevailing Reddit theory as to why it doesn't work is that until now, VR pornographers haven't needed to optimize their videos for Safari, so they just haven't — but if they want to capture the Vision Pro audience, which seems sizable indeed, they'd better get on that""
optimize! Lol
Hope they get it working, I'm curious how it will work, will your hands and arms be in front of the vr image? What will pt alpha/AI AR videos look like? Thats what I wanna know.
One more quote
""There are some dedicated VR porn connoisseurs who have changed settings in Safari to optimize WebXR themselves, but even they say their limited success has been full of glitches and isn't much better than the flat 2D porn that does load on the Vision Pro's browser"
Smh
Wendigo Apple Fans Horrified to Discover Vision Pro Can’t Play VR Porn: "3,500$ chastity belt."
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Just wanted to post an update.
About two hours ago, I finally figured something out, and I'm now on my way to porno bliss. I'm usually incredible with tech, but there's always something new to learn.
In my case, I had to learn that Apple devices (including the Vision Pro) can't handle HEVC MP4 files tagged as HEV1. The files need to be tagged "HVC1 to enable them to play nicely with quicktime" See my source on this.
All of the high resolution 7k and 8k VR porn movies I've downloaded are tagged HEV1. I guess there is technically some small differences between HEV1 and HVC1, but you can "remux" the files very fast (500x) to tag them HVC1. You need the ffmpeg command line tool (google it). Then, you can remux a file using a simple command like the following:
ffmpeg -i my_hev1_file.mp4 -c:v copy -tag:v hvc1 -c:a copy -c copy my_hvc1_file.mp4
Once I'd tweaked the mp4, I copied the file to the Vision Pro. If you need help with that, maybe just put the file into your iCloud drive because your Vision Pro should have easy access to your iCloud drive. I used a SAN server. Anyway, on the Vision Pro, you still need a video player that can play non-spatial VR files. Remuxing with the HVC1 tag isn't the same as re-encoding the file as an Apple spatial video---although that's possible, but a lot more time consuming. I'm using version 1.2 of that lame Reality Player, which cost like $9. I was going to ask for a refund, until I figured out the issue here was HEV1.
Good luck
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GfLm I believe that is an app problem and not a device or OS problem. Good video player apps can play both fine without the need to remux.