The variety of folks with a 3D digital camera of their pocket will quickly attain tons of of tens of millions, because the common iPhone 16 can seize spatial pictures and spatial movies.
Spatial video is Apple’s time period for stereoscopic 3D video utilizing the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format.
At the moment spatial movies can solely be captured by iPhone 15 Professional fashions and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional itself, however all iPhone 16 fashions will have the ability to seize them. It is now a typical iPhone function.
Apple additionally introduced that iPhone 16 will have the ability to seize spatial pictures. Beforehand solely Imaginative and prescient Professional might seize spatial pictures.
Solely, the iPhone 16 Professional fashions have Spatial Audio Recording in spatial movies, audio will sound prefer it’s coming from its supply when the video is being seen.
Spatial movies might be seen natively in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional or Pico 4 Extremely, and the Meta Horizon app enables you to simply add them to your Meta account’s cloud storage to be seen in your Quest headset.
When you’ve got a special VR headset, reminiscent of a local PC VR headset, you should use the iPhone app Spatialify to transform spatial movies to common SBS 3D for viewing.
Platforms like YouTube do not but natively help importing spatial movies, although you may as well use Spatialify’s conversion function for this.
At its WWDC convention again in June Apple introduced an upcoming replace to Last Lower Professional which is able to add help for enhancing spatial movies, together with including “immersive titles and results”, and Vimeo revealed it plans to natively help the format in future, alongside a visionOS app for viewing spatial movies.