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Apple TV Hacked to Run Fullscreen iPad Apps in 720p [VIDEO] Jan 1st 2012, 20:38 By Gary Ng on January 1st, 2012 0 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. iOS hacker @stroughtonsmith previously demonstrated a hacked second generation Apple TV running iOS apps without AirPlay. Further progress has resulted in day 2 of his tinkering, and last night he released another video this time showing fullscreen iPad apps running in 720p: More MobileX goodness! Much of today was spent making apps run as the full-screen iPad versions. I started writing a new launcher from scratch for the TV form factor; as of right now it's not using IR remote input – we're controlling most things from VNC or over SSH. Here you can see me demonstrating a few apps, like Facebook, Maps, Safari and YouTube. Most apps (and games) from the App Store should work too. As you can see, iOS kinda works on larger screens! I'm @stroughtonsmith and MobileX was built by @TheMudkip, and we've spent the past two days together making this work on AppleTV. If Apple isn't going to give us a way to make real AppleTV apps, then I guess we'll have to make one ourselves Check out the video below running the iPad version of Facebook, Google Maps, and Safari on his Apple TV: @stroughtonsmith also notes the Apple TV can run resolutions other than 720p, as 1024×768 also works. He has confirmed the latest Apple TV is essentially a $99 computer that runs iOS. The sky's the limit on what can be achieved with these hacks, especially since the Apple TV 4.4.4 Seas0nPass untethered jailbreak was released. Definitely impressive stuff. Gary Ng Founder and Editor-in-Chief of iPhoneinCanada.ca. Follow @iPhoneinCanada and on Google+. Click here to save 20% OFF at ZAGG.com with coupon 'iphoneinca'!

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