VR hand controller help may revitalize the software program marketplace for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
A brand new report says that Apple has approached Sony in an effort to convey handheld sport controller help — and presumably extra video games — to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. The corporate can also be contemplating an Apple Pencil-like “wand” controller as properly.
Bloomberg reviews {that a} future replace to visionOS will convey help for third-party hand controllers, together with Sony’s PlayStation VR2 controllers. Apple has additionally reached out to third-party builders in an effort to convey extra video games to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, with help for controllers as an inducement.
Conventional sport ontrollers used with the Xbox and PlayStation are at present supported within the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, however just for Apple Arcade video games. Bringing help for VR controllers, and inspiring builders to help extra VR video games for the platform, would probably improve gross sales of Apple’s headset.
Supporting hand controllers may increase Apple’s personal eye-and-hand motion detection, attracting extra improvement for video games and different purposes. Bloomberg has additionally speculated that Apple may go so far as serving to fund extra packages for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional in an effort to develop extra momentum for the product.
The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional has offered modestly, as may be anticipated from an all-new product class with out an current mature market. Apple is believed to have offered round 370,000 models within the first three quarters of gross sales, with one other 50,000 models anticipated by the top of 2024.
Extra importantly, individuals who personal an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional are usually not utilizing it as a lot as the corporate had anticipated, indicating a must beef up software program choices for it. The corporate has till just lately been centered on bringing its personal Apple Pencil-like “wand” controller to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional for extra exact sorts of work, however now sees worth in adapting VR hand controllers to the platform as properly.