Our old desktop screensavers were interactive, which meant that when you moved the mouse, the screensaver didn’t automatically dismiss. During our screensaver days we created interactive screensaver products for the NFL, Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine, and others. Our focus at that time was the sports market. Before Mercury shifted our attention to mobile apps and emerging technologies, we spent a few years in the mid-2000s developing advanced desktop screensavers that pulled data from partner sources to enhance the basic screensaver experience.
We’re probably not the only ones to consider third-party screensavers on Apple TV, but we do have experience in this area. We decided to put together some quick prototype videos to demonstrate a few of the concepts we discussed along with some notes on how this might work. Recently we were again discussing the concept of an extension style approach for tvOS that would allow installed third-party applications to bundle their own screensavers, similarly to how MacOS and iOS allow installed apps to bundle widgets.
Updated June 26: Our readers have had some questions about the possibility of screen burn-in so we updated the post to cover this topic.Īs mesmerizing as Apple TV’s default aerial screensavers are, we at Mercury often find ourselves longing for more options and a bit more utility out of Apple TV’s screensaver offerings.
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