The popular media player VLC will be coming to Apple Vision Pro. But not very soon, because the developers are not motivated

The Apple Vision Pro headset still lacks many of the applications familiar to iOS and macOS users. Some major developers have already stated that they are not interested in porting their programs to Vision Pro. However, the developers of the VLC media player adhere to a different point of view.

The President of VideoLAN, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, confirmed in a recent interview that work is currently underway on a version of VLC for Apple Vision Pro.

"We already have a version of VLC that works on Vision Pro," he said.

Unfortunately, it may take some time before the application becomes available on the App Store. Kempf acknowledges that there is no motivation to actively develop the program for visionOS due to the small user base. The fact is that the number of people owning Vision Pro is indeed small.

Interestingly, the President of VideoLAN also confirmed that he is willing to work on a version of VLC for the Meta Quest headset. However, plans have been postponed because there are already "many good players" for the platform.

VLC is a free, open-source media player available on many platforms, including iOS, macOS, and even tvOS. VLC supports many of the most popular audio and video codecs and is typically used to play media files that cannot be played by players like Apple QuickTime. VideoLAN is currently working on VLC 4.0, which will be a major update that will rewrite the "core" of the application.

Source: 9to5mac