HOW IT WORKS
Spatial video
Apple hopes that ‘spatial video’ is the Vision Pro’s killer feature
Spatial video is designed to really bring your home videos and special moments to life.
YOU WILL LEARN
How the Vision Pro creates and displays three-dimensional ‘spatial’ video
Key fact
Spatial video files are twice the size of ordinary files, as they include separate images for each eye. Ordinary 1080p video requires around 65MB for each minute of video, but spatial video doubles this to 130MB per minute – or 7.8GB for one hour. The computational demands of spatial video also mean that 1080p is the maximum resolution available at the moment.
Just press the left-hand button on the Vision Pro to use its stereoscopic camera system to record spatial video.
Image credit: Apple Inc
It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster
ride for the Vision Pro over the last year.
Months of feverish speculation were followed by near-hysteria when Apple finally revealed its new VR headset at WWDC in June 2023. There were rave reviews when the Vision Pro went on sale in February this year, followed by a backlash over its high price and reports that sales were falling short of Apple’s targets (which slightly overlooks the fact that the Vision Pro still hasn’t gone on sale anywhere outside the US yet).