Channel 4 within the UK now has a devoted app for ...

The preliminary buzz for Apple’s mixed-reality headset has died down, however new apps and experiences are nonetheless arriving for consumers who plunked down $3,500. The UK broadcaster Channel 4 simply dropped a dedicated streaming app for the headset, which lets customers watch stuff in “ground-breaking cinema-style.”

Channel 4 is the primary UK broadcaster to take this step. The app leverages the tech contained in the headset to overlay streaming content material on the actual world, which permits for a “full-screen viewing expertise” of stuff like The Nice British Bake Off and Taskmaster, along with multi-screen view.

Talking of Taskmaster, the broadcaster additionally introduced an setting based mostly on the comedy sport present. Environments on the AVP remodel the world across the person, so folks can watch Taskmaster whereas sitting in a room impressed by Taskmaster (cue that Xzibit Yo Dawg meme.) Different streaming apps have their very own environments. Paramount+ affords one based mostly on SpongeBob Squarepants and Disney+ now consists of one set in Iceland.

This app doesn’t characteristic entry to the recently-released Taskmaster VR expertise. That one’s nonetheless tied to Steam VR and Meta Quest. By most accounts, it’s a pretty bad game, so the Imaginative and prescient Professional isn’t lacking a lot.