Safari displays Spatial videos and Spatial photos under visionOS
Apple is expanding the accessibility of spatial content. Playback will soon also be possible via the web under visionOS.
Spatial Video on the Vision Pro: So far only in certain views, soon also on the web.
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In future, the Safari browser under visionOS will not only be able to play WebXR content, but also Spatial videos and Spatial photos. This was announced by Apple managers Della Huff and Billy Sorrentino to the photography website PetaPixel. At the moment, both types of 3D representations are displayed natively when viewed in the Photos app or received via iMessage, AirDrop or other sharing methods. In future, it will also be possible for simple websites to offer or play the spatial images.
Transparent display of 2D and 3D
Apple has recently greatly expanded the number of devices that can record spatial videos and photos. In addition to the Vision Pro itself and the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, all models in the iPhone 16 series can now also be used, as the standard iPhones have also been given a suitable image sensor arrangement. Finally, a new API was also introduced that allows Spatial videos and Spatial photos to be recorded on the iPhone using apps other than the camera application.
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As an example of the new Safari support, Apple gave PetaPixel a test report in which Spatial videos and Spatial photos could be integrated. On a Vision Pro, these then appear in 3D as intended by the person recording them. At the same time, the 2D versions are retained and are then displayed as before in Safari on an iPhone or Mac, for example. "Once you've embedded spatial content, people using Vision Pro will see it spatially and people just viewing it on their laptop will see it in two dimensions," says Sorrentino, who works on Apple's design team.
visionOS 2 with spatial photo generator
With visionOS 2, Apple recently created the option of converting flat images into Spatial Photos, some of which look amazingly good. One problem remains, however, that there are currently no post-processing options for spatial content on an iPhone and the quality is sometimes below average.
The reason for this is that the iPhone lacks the numerous sensors that come as standard with the Vision Pro, meaning that it still remains the gold standard for spatial recordings. Spatial content can now also be recorded with certain Canon cameras.
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