Voyager is such a great replacement ☺️ but yea, was a very sad end for Apollo.

I’m currently reading your comment on Voyager, which is the Lemmy version of Apollo lol.

It wasn't publicly spoken about much from what I understand, but headsets were sent to some select developers within a month or so of the announcement. A buddy of mine was working at a company that is basically totally AR/MR focused and they had around 3 units for development purposes. Disney had to have had them even sooner because they were demoing Disney stuff right at the announcement.

I wouldn't be totally surprised if the Apollo guy was one of them. He's an ex Apple employee and Apollo got called out or at least shown in Apple keynotes multiple times before it shut down.

Afaik there are only a handful of actual AR stuff right now:

• Application windows stay anchored to your environment until you reset them. If you put them on top of your desk, it'll stay there even if you move to your kitchen.
• When you look at your mac, it'll sometimes pop a button to allow you to initiate virtual display to your mac.
• When you look down to your bluetooth keyboard, it'll show whatever you type in a floating box complete with suggestions.

Maybe there are more I'm not aware of.

I want it for the virtual monitor aspect. Especially since I have adhd, I think this would possibly cut down on distractions.

It’s AR and VR in whatever mix you want it to be. The little spinny dial at the top controls how much of the real world you see vs how much of a virtual environment you see. The bottom end is full AR, the top end is full VR.

It's not* really a client. The app uses embeds for playback and the regular YouTube website (with css modifications ontop) for browsing.