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With\u00a0a press release<\/a>\u00a0following an otherwise packed keynote at CES (which John and\u00a0Brendon<\/a>, my\u00a0NPC co-hosts<\/a>, attended in person last night), NVIDIA announced that their streaming service GeForce NOW is going to natively support the Apple Vision Pro\u2026well,\u00a0sort of<\/em>.<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t that many details in NVIDIA\u2019s announcement, but the gist of it is that Vision Pro users will be able to stream games by visiting the\u00a0GeForce NOW website<\/a>\u00a0when a new version launches \u201clater this month\u201d.<\/p>\n Get immersed in a new dimension of big-screen gaming as GeForce NOW brings AAA titles to life on Apple Vision Pro spatial computers, Meta Quest 3 and 3S and Pico virtual- and mixed-reality headsets. Later this month, these supported devices will give members access to an extensive library of games to stream through GeForce NOW by opening the browser to\u00a0play.geforcenow.com<\/a>\u00a0when the newest app update, version 2.0.70, starts rolling out later this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is all NVIDIA said in their announcement, which isn\u2019t much, but we can speculate on a few things based on the existing limitations of visionOS.<\/p>\n For starters, the current version of Safari on visionOS does\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0support adding PWAs to the visionOS Home Screen. Given that the existing version of GeForce NOW requires saving a web app to begin the setup process, this either means that a) NVIDIA knows a visionOS software update in January will add the ability to save web apps or b) GeForce NOW won\u2019t require that additional step to start playing on visionOS. The latter option seems more likely.<\/p>\n Second, as we\u00a0covered<\/a>\u00a0last year, there\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0a\u00a0workaround<\/a>\u00a0to play with GeForce NOW on visionOS, and that is the\u00a0Nexus\u207a<\/a>\u00a0app. I\u2019ve been using the Nexus\u207a app on my Vision Pro to stream Indiana Jones and other games from the cloud, and while the resolution is good enough1<\/a><\/sup>, what bothers me is the lack of\u00a0HDR<\/a>\u00a0and Spatial Audio support (which should work with the Web Audio API in\u00a0Safari for visionOS 2.0<\/a>) in GeForce NOW when accessed from Nexus\u207a\u2019s built-in web browser.<\/p>\n The Nexus\u207a app supports ultra-wide aspect ratios, but HDR is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n With all this in mind, I\u2019m going to guess that, at a minimum, NVIDIA will support a PWA-free installation method in Safari for visionOS. I\u2019m less optimistic about HDR and Spatial Audio, but as I gravitate more and more toward cloud streaming rather than local PC streaming2<\/a><\/sup>, I\u2019d be happily proven wrong here.<\/p>\n My only question is: with the App Store\u2019s \u201cnew\u201d\u00a0rules<\/a>, why isn\u2019t NVIDIA making a native GeForce NOW app for Apple platforms?<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/cdn.macstories.net\/img_0155-1736259369962.PNG\")
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