Telegram is engaged on releasing a visionOS app that can permit customers to entry the messaging app on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional blended actuality headset subsequent 12 months, and the app’s founder has revealed how the app will seem on Apple’s first spatial laptop. Customers will be capable to entry their chats by way of a translucent interface and dictate messages — or kind them utilizing a digital keyboard. The app will even be capable to show media like movies that seem in am immersive view.

In a video posted to his channel on Tuesday, Telegram Founder Pavel Durov confirmed off the primary idea of the app on visionOS. Whereas Apple confirmed off a couple of examples of app’s working on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional at its annual Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC 2023), this is among the first detailed examples of an app working on Apple’s upcoming working system for the blended actuality headset.

Picture Credit score: Pavel Durov

 

The video shared by Durov begins with the visionOS app listing, displaying the Telegram icon that’s highlighted with an animation when it’s chosen — that is anticipated to be customary behaviour for apps on visionOS when it’s accessible to clients subsequent 12 months.

The app demo reveals Telegram for visionOS with a left-aligned listing of chats within the app, and deciding on a window will open it on the precise. You’ll be able to ship messages by way of Siri, or use the default digital keyboard accessible in visionOS. The demo reveals three-dimensional animated stickers and emoji reactions, but it surely’s unclear whether or not the ultimate model will embrace these animations as they seem to take over a lot of the show.

Telegram for visionOS will even help media comparable to movies, and tapping on a video will open it in an immersive view that dims the remainder of the interface whereas the media is enjoying. The app will even allow you to view tales, situated on the high left nook of the display screen. In the meantime, the demo reveals small icons for profile and calls sections, however they don’t seem to be proven within the video. Extra particulars on Telegram for visionOS are anticipated to be accessible nearer to the discharge of the app — Apple’s blended actuality headset is predicted to go on sale within the US in early 2024.

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