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The Vision Pro is a computer for the age of walled gardens


Will app developers get on board?

Despite being a device built around interactive 3D computing, you won’t find projects from Apple’s once-close collaborator Epic, whose Unreal Engine and Infinity Blade series helped establish iOS as a home for 3D games. Tech companies’ appetite for platform control and vertical consolidation — owning all layers of a product stack, from media to software to hardware — has turned the relationship with nearly any potential partner into a tense frenemy-ship. In the Vision Pro’s case, YouTube owner Google is a direct “Big Tech” rival that’s long had its own designs on virtual and augmented reality.

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