2023-11-10 15:06:00
The launch of Apple Vision Pro is coming and today journalist Joanna Stern, from Wall Street Journal and the blog Tech Thingsreported what it’s like to use Apple’s virtual reality glasses to watch special videos recorded with the iPhone 15 Pro after being invited to perform a test.
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According to Stern, the test began with recording videos in environments controlled by journalists using the iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 17, which finally allows recording spatial video.
Spatial video uses the iPhone 15 Pro’s ultrawide and wide cameras at the same time, as a stereoscopic recording system, generating two 1080p videos that imitate the perspective of human eyes, as each eye will see a recording and merge them generating the effect of 3D.
The journalist states that everyone was impressed when watching the video on the headset:
In the demo, I recorded a sushi chef holding a piece of sushi. When I watched it on Vision Pro, the sushi and chopsticks actually looked 3D. They were clearly in the foreground, hovering closer to me than the rest of the images. Of course, the lighting was perfect during recording – we’ll have to see how it fares in imperfect conditions.
In addition to the iPhone 15 Pro, the Apple Vision Pro itself can record spatial videos.
Stern says that the idea of Apple releasing the feature before the launch of the Vision Pro is to encourage people to record videos in this format so they have something to watch on the headset when it hits the market.
Apple showed me some other space videos. In one of them, a father told his children a story in the back of a trailer. It was so realistic and cozy that it almost scared me. Why am I spying on this random family? That’s obviously the big appeal here: spatial videos create intimacy in ways that 2D photos and videos don’t.
Unfortunately, the journalist was banned from taking photos or recording videos using the Vision Pro, but she adds that the device is very comfortable and intuitive to use.
Lance Ulanoff, do TechRadarcalled Spatial Video the “killer” feature of the Apple Vision Pro:
Now I realize that Spatial Video might be the Vision Pro’s killer feature. Apple makes it possible to record stereoscopic or spatial videos, but only when you hold the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max in landscape mode. To put it simply, Apple is only capturing two 1080p/30fps video streams in the HEVC format. Due to dual streaming, the file size is slightly larger, creating a 130MB file for about a minute of video.
In this way, Ulanoff says that Spatial Video will become the main reason to buy a Vision Pro, as it is the perfect platform for watching memories recorded with the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.
Not everything perfect
Another professional who tested the headset was Scott Stein, from CNETwhich claims the Vision Pro has vivid images:
Apple’s Vision Pro headset has amazing quality and resolution, which became clear once again when I looked at iPhone photos in the headset and zoomed in, or viewed panoramic photos in an immersive mode that made it look like I was in a vivid immersive recreation of a location, similar to a 360-degree photo. Space videos look great, but I felt the desire to see them in a smoother 60fps, 4K, or both. Who knows one day.
The only limitations of Spatial Video are resolution and editing, as files can only be cut and modified on Vision Pro and the iPhone, but Apple has promised that this will change in 2024 with an update to Final Cut.
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