TechVRMeta Quest can also perform one of Vision Pro’s neatest tricksYou won’t need to buy Apple’s expensive headset to see your family in spatial videoWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechVRMeta Quest can also perform one of Vision Pro’s neatest tricksYou won’t need to buy Apple’s expensive headset to see your family in spatial videoWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
You won’t need to buy Apple’s expensive headset to see your family in spatial video
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Meta)
(Image credit: Meta)
As theApple Vision Prolaunches in the US today, you can expect to see a lot of people sharing their favourite features online – and one of those features will undoubtedly be spatial video, which you can record on aniPhone15 Pro or Pro Max and then view in something close to 3D. It’s very clever, very emotional and very coming to theMeta Quest 3too.
As someone with terrible vision and even more terrible finances, Apple’s Vision Pro is not the headset for me – but I do have FOMO when it comes to spatial video. So the prospect of being able to see my family memories in three dimensions for a fraction of the cash is very appealing. And as spatial video recording comes to more devices, such as the non-pro iPhone 16, it looks like the Quest just got a lot more attractive to Apple users.
What is spatial video and what phones can record it?
Spatial video is stereoscopic: it uses two lens simultaneously to record, and the gap between those lenses enables the phone to create video that appears somewhat three-dimensional when you view it with a suitable display. The display needs to have two screens to recreate the effect, which means VR headsets but not smartphones.
The result isn’t completely 3D, but it adds depth to what would otherwise be a two-dimensional recording and feels more realistic as a result. And while there are lots of applications for it, the most popular one is likely to be making home movies even more affecting.
For now it’s limited to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, but ifearly renders of the iPhone 16are accurate its repositioned camera lenses would be capable of recording spatial video on non-Pro models too. That would mean a lot more spatial video being recorded, so Meta’s move to support the format now is very smart.
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