The Meta Quest VR headset will quickly be capable of play spatial movies captured on an iPhone 15 Professional or iPhone 15 Professional Max, Meta introduced at this time. The upcoming v62 replace will add help for the function.
Spatial movies might be uploaded to the Meta Quest headset utilizing the Meta Quest cell app, in order that the stereoscopic movies captured on the iPhone 15 Professional fashions might be relived on Meta’s machine for many who shouldn’t have an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Spatial movies uploaded to the Meta Quest will likely be transformed to the proper format for playback on the machine, and it will likely be saved within the cloud. Spatial video content material might be chosen from the Information menu for an immersive viewing expertise. A number of demo movies can be found on the Meta Quest so customers can expertise what spatial movies are like.
Apple added the power to seize spatial movies particularly for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional headset house owners. On Apple gadgets, spatial movies can solely be considered on the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset, which is priced at $3,500. Different merchandise present the spatial movies as normal 2D movies.
We’re thrilled to announce help for spatial video playback on Meta Quest! In case you have an iPhone 15 Professional or iPhone 15 Professional Max, now you can add spatial movies (a.okay.a stereoscopic movies) to your Meta Quest headset utilizing the Meta Quest cell app–letting you relive the second with shocking depth. With this new function, you’ll be able to expertise your reminiscences and media content material like by no means earlier than.
At $500, the Meta Quest is extra inexpensive than the Imaginative and prescient Professional, so the choice to look at spatial movies on a lower-cost machine may be interesting to some iPhone 15 Professional house owners.
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