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All the accessible Immersive Video launch content material match on a small strip within the TV app.
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Initial movies had 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 first 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 will probably be a collection of highlights from final 12 months’s Major League Soccer (MLS) playoffs, and in accordance with Six Colors, it is going to run simply 5 minutes. It will probably be free for all Vision Pro customers.
On February 2, Apple launched what seemed to be the first 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 acquired new episodes. The only different piece of Immersive Video content material accessible is an Alicia Keyes efficiency video that additionally debuted on February 2. Most of those movies had been only a few minutes long.
That implies that this quick soccer video depicting sports activities moments from 2023 would be the only new piece of Immersive Video content material Apple has put out since the gadget launched initially 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 first items of unique 3D content material from Apple appeared promising and that I appeared ahead to future episodes. Given that they had 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 embody a first-party app for enjoying 3D movies downloaded from the net with the Vision Pro, although an impartial developer stuffed that hole with an app referred to as Reality Player. There are a few 3D video streaming or downloading companies within the visionOS App Store, however the choice is very anemic in comparison with what you might have entry to with different headsets.
Apple hasn’t been calling the Vision Pro a VR headset, opting as a substitute for the time period “spatial computing”—and that is comprehensible as a result of it does a lot greater than most VR headsets.
But if you happen to’re on the lookout for new examples of the kinds of passive viewing content material you possibly can get pleasure from on different headsets, the Vision Pro is nonetheless 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 meant for viewing flat, 2D content material as home windows in 3D house. The scenario is not fairly as dire with apps and video games, with a handful of new 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 possibly can place these viewports wherever you need within the room round you. Most video content material is additionally 2D.
There are conditions the place that is neat to have, however it’s stunning Apple hasn’t invested extra in precise 3D content material but. In phrases of new stuff, this quick soccer video debuting tonight is all now we have proper now.
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