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All the out there Immersive Video launch content material match on a small strip within the TV app.
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Initial movies have been labeled as episodes in a collection, however subsequent episodes have not come.
Tonight, Apple will debut some new Immersive Video content material for the Vision Pro headset—the primary sports activities content material for the gadget. It would not look like a lot after two months of no new content material, although.
Starting at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET, Vision Pro customers will be capable of watch a sports activities movie captured for the platform’s Immersive Video format. The video might be a collection of highlights from final 12 months’s Major League Soccer (MLS) playoffs, and in accordance with Six Colors, it would run simply 5 minutes. It might be free for all Vision Pro customers.
On February 2, Apple launched what seemed to be the primary episodes of three Immersive Video collection: Adventure, Prehistoric Planet, and Wildlife. Each debuted alongside the Vision Pro’s launch with one episode labeled “Episode 1” of “Season 1.”
However, it has been nearly two months, and none of these collection have obtained new episodes. The solely different piece of Immersive Video content material out there is an Alicia Keyes efficiency video that additionally debuted on February 2. Most of those movies have been just a few minutes lengthy.
That implies that this quick soccer video depicting sports activities moments from 2023 would be the solely new piece of Immersive Video content material Apple has put out for the reason that gadget launched at the start of February.
When I reviewed the Vision Pro as an leisure gadget, I lauded its capabilities for viewing 2D movies and movies, however I additionally talked a bit about its 3D video capabilities. I mentioned the primary items of authentic 3D content material from Apple appeared promising and that I appeared ahead to future episodes. Given that they have been labeled identical to Apple TV+ collection within the TV app, I assumed they’d arrive at a weekly cadence. Further episodes have not come.
Notably, Apple did not embrace a first-party app for enjoying 3D movies downloaded from the net with the Vision Pro, although an impartial developer crammed that hole with an app referred to as Reality Player. There are a couple of 3D video streaming or downloading companies within the visionOS App Store, however the choice could be very anemic in comparison with what you have got entry to with different headsets.
Apple hasn’t been calling the Vision Pro a VR headset, opting as an alternative for the time period “spatial computing”—and that is comprehensible as a result of it does much more than most VR headsets.
But if you happen to’re searching for new examples of the kinds of passive viewing content material you’ll be able to get pleasure from on different headsets, the Vision Pro continues to be far behind the competitors two months in.
The gadget can show a wealth of 2D video content material, however this drives house the preliminary impression that the Vision Pro is supposed for viewing flat, 2D content material as home windows in 3D house. The state of affairs is not fairly as dire with apps and video games, with a handful of latest spatial apps in these classes rolling out in current weeks.
Most apps behave identical to iPad apps, with 2D viewports on the content material; you’ll be able to place these viewports wherever you need within the room round you. Most video content material can also be 2D.
There are conditions the place that is neat to have, but it surely’s shocking Apple hasn’t invested extra in precise 3D content material but. In phrases of latest stuff, this quick soccer video debuting tonight is all we now have proper now.
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