Reliving my memories in Apple Vision Pro spatial video brought me to tears
Apple Vision Pro features a pair of advanced, custom micro‑OLED displays deliver more pixels than a 4K TV to each eye — for stunning clarity.
Looking at spatial videos, panoramas, and even regular photos and videos in Apple Vision Pro is going to be major selling point, writes Raymond Wong – who was brought to tears when viewing a spatial video with the Apple Vision Pro.
I am more and more convinced that Apple Vision Pro will be the breakthrough device Apple is promising when the $3,500 “spatial computer” launches early next year.
Yesterday, I had the rare opportunity to try Apple Vision Pro for the third time since its announcement at WWDC 2023. The situation was the same as the last time: a short viewing session to look at spatial video, panoramas, photos, and videos. The difference this time, however, was that I was allowed to bring my own content — including spatial video shot with an iPhone 15 Pro — and take a look at them using visionOS’s Photos app…
[R]ecording spatial video with an iPhone 15 Pro is easy once you’ve turned it on. You simply tap the Apple Vision Pro icon that appears in the regular video mode and then hit the record button. Videos are saved as normal 2D videos in your camera roll, but view them in Vision Pro and they have depth like any 3D video…
[S]patial videos hit different. Maybe it’s because they have subtle depth to them — I noted in my viewing session last time that the 3D has just the right amount of depth, not too strong or too weak — or because you can look at them in an “Immersive” view where the border of the video becomes glowy and dream-like to give it characteristics of a memory. Either way, spatial videos feel alive…
In one spatial video, my mom and I were having dim sum at a restaurant and I was explaining to her what the Apple Vision Pro is and what it does. It was recorded last weekend so the memory was fresh in my mind. Rewatching the video inside of the Vision Pro, it was as if we were transported back to the restaurant, sitting across from each other over a table of dishes. I kept tilting my head a lot, almost in disbelief at how surreal it was to see my mom talking, laughing, and eating in spatial video. My mom was who got me interested in technology and I don’t think I would have a career writing about new consumer tech if not for her interest in it. To me, these convos are very precious to me, so to see them replayed with a sense of presence really tugged at my heartstrings. At one point, I fought back a few tiny tears if only because there were three Apple reps sitting next to me.
MacDailyNews Take: Spatial video playback is going to be a huge selling point for Apple Vision Pro along with the virtual big display it offers. As Wong wrote in his full article, “I said it many times before and I’ll probably repeat it until it’s released: Apple Vision Pro is the best virtual big screen I have ever used… When I say the screen looks like a proper big screen projection floating in front of you (or on your ceiling if that’s what you prefer), I mean it. It’s not like other VR headsets or video glasses, where they claim a display that resembles one measuring a hundred-something inches, but in reality, it just looks like a much smaller TV screen or monitor… [I]t’s going to disrupt the TV and projection screens industry. Why would anyone spend $3,000 on a cutting-edge TV when the Vision Pro will give you a resizable screen that’s also portable and can easily display all of your content?”
Spatial Video looks like Apple’s first spatial computer’s first killer app. – MacDailyNews, November 14, 2023
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