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 system, and now one of the vital common social platforms is one among them. Though you might watch TikTok movies by way of your browser on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, the brand new native app permits for an enhanced and 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 facet of the feed.
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While 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’ll be able to view all of these items directly. TikTok says that for the reason that Imaginative and prescient Professional eliminates display screen dimension and spatial boundaries, it permits for a way more immersive content material expertise. Because of this, you’ll be able to watch a video whereas scrolling by feedback with out having your view minimize off, in contrast to on the cellular app.
The app permits you to watch TikTok movies in immersive areas, like in Yosemite or on the moon. It additionally works with the system’s Shared House characteristic, which implies you’ll be able to watch TikTok movies whereas engaged on different apps.
On the cellular app, the navigation bar is on the appropriate, however on the Imaginative and prescient Professional app, the navigation bar has been moved to the left. TikTok says it made the change in an effort to align with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional design greatest practices. The profile, share, like, feedback and sound icons are all on the appropriate.
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The launch of the brand new app comes just a few weeks after a product chief at TikTok confirmed that the corporate was growing 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 vp 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 suitable iOS and iPad apps, spatial apps constructed for the headset have been designed to leverage its particular capabilities.
It make sense for TikTok to wish to present a spatial app particularly designed for the headset, particularly since different leisure/video apps like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video have finished so. YouTube, which is one among TikTok’s greatest rivals, has stated a Imaginative and prescient Professional app is “on the roadmap” however hasn’t offered a particular timeline. By launching its app first, TikTok has a little bit of a bonus over YouTube.