It took two years, but YouTube is finally an Apple Vision Pro app.

The news, announced Thursday, may come as a surprise if — like most people — you haven’t tried Apple’s Vision Pro. YouTube has always seemed like a perfect fit for Apple’s mixed reality device, because many videos work in 3D, 360 degrees or in 180-degree immersive formats. And yet, Google and Apple haven’t figured out a way to make it happen before. A third-party YouTube-playing app, Juno, appeared shortly after the initial launch of Vision Pro, but it was removed from the App Store.

You always have the option to watch YouTube through the Safari browser. But that experience lacks the more immersive support for 3D and 360-degree videos that Google and Samsung Galaxy XR headsetwhich was launched last fall, was able to show the.

The new YouTube app should bring Vision Pro up to a lot more video options, but I hope it’s also the start of many more. The partnership of Apple and Google in Gemini could unlock AI-enabled cameras, similar to what the Galaxy XR offers. Google’s immersive Maps app on the Galaxy XR is also great. I like both of them to be Vision-bound. Perhaps YouTube is a foot in the door for the rest of Google’s app support.