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For me, I’d rather freely pan around (look where I want to look) in 360 degrees than be limited to only a limited view out front… but perhaps that’s just me.
Both technologies exist. You can do 180 VR 3D or 360 VR 3D. But the resolution needs to be massive to make a 360 VR 3d Image look good.

Most immersive video content for the forseeable future will focus on 180 VR just due to resolution and bandwidth. Even the best Cannon VR creator kit camera and fisheye lenses don't really look that good to me.
 
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No, Apple removes Apps that do this very thing. That is why it is important to be able to side-load or have a 2nd non-Apple App store.
There are way more examples of great apps that outpace Apple's than of Apple pulling apps from their store because they are better. Most of Apple's apps are free so there is no monetary reason for them to pull a better app unless it's a battery hog or violates app store policy. Apple is more likely to just buy the developer than pull their app out of some kind of petty jealousy. Of course Apple also wants you to buy their latest hardware, but that hardware is generally designed years in advance of the software ecosystems so even if they can, they don't want to break their long term plans by leapfrogging themselves on features. I personally don't have a problem with side loading either, but unlike Android, iOS just wasn't designed for it and 99% of Apple users don't need or care about it.
 
For those wondering, yes, it actually records video from two of the cameras. Surprised it can do that since iPhone 15 Pro has a dedicated power module to enable the feature and there’s no way that’s a public API.
I think it was released a few iOS versions ago, the ability to use multiple cameras at once, maybe in iOS 15
 
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But Apple was holding this capability for iPhone 16/17 Pro so you would have to upgrade your phone! Phil Schiller is now spending the next 80 hours pondering whether to ban this app on BS grounds.
Banned for reason AAPL-42: Brazenly Using Low Level Software or Hardware to Improve Technicality
Or they can buy out the guy/app and lock this API mishap, to encourage innovation of course.
 
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Thanks, picked it up! Interested to see how much better 3d/spatial videos look on Quest 3
 
For those wondering, yes, it actually records video from two of the cameras. Surprised it can do that since iPhone 15 Pro has a dedicated power module to enable the feature and there’s no way that’s a public API.
Huh? There have been apps that record from 2 cameras for years?
 
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For now. For whatever reason, including awareness, Apple does not consider that competition right now.
Apple showed it being used in one of their behind the scene videos. Name an app they banned because it became popular. People are straight out lying unless they are misinformed.
 
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Facebook today removed VPN app Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple decided that it violates App Store data collection policies, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Apple earlier this month told Facebook officials that the Onavo app, which serves as a virtual private network, violates June App Store rules that prevent apps from harvesting data to build advertising profiles or contact databases.

Onavo, a free VPN, promised to "keep you and your data safe when you browse and share information on the web," but the app's real purpose was tracking user activity across multiple different apps to learn insights about how Facebook customers use third-party apps.
Thanks for the links. I hadn't read too much on that but did see it get referenced in the recent allegations of Facebook spying on Snapchat traffic by way of MITM attacks.

 
Isn’t it the entire point that the App Store can provide apps better than Apple by developers who are dedicated to do it?
Which is ironic because I heard the App Store was inspired by a 3rd party app store (required jailbreaking), that got Apple to eventually open their own.

On a related note, they did the same with the blue light functionality.
 
Same - if this dev isnt willing to support the 14Pro then there is likely a technical barrier and those of us hoping for some backwards expansion are out of luck.

Shame really as i was hoping to keep this phone for the usual 5 years, but id quite like some ‘spatial’ memories to look back on
 
But Apple was holding this capability for iPhone 16/17 Pro so you would have to upgrade your phone! Phil Schiller is now spending the next 80 hours pondering whether to ban this app on BS grounds.
The sad part is, it's probably true.
 
Remember how quickly the 3D TV hype passed by? This spatial video thing will pass just as quickly.
Hype? The problem with 3D was the TV manufactures with piss poor tech except maybe LG, I heard the C6 had great 3D for a TV. The ghosting, cross talk along with really lazy piss poor and sometimes lame 3D post production from movie studios eh Disney/Marvel to name one is at fault for 3D woes. Not to mention, well just a little, studios wanting to kill physical media for the inferior streaming. 3D is still alive elsewhere but rough to in the U.S. 3D wasn't really all hype because it was killed for various reasons here in the U.S.
Agreed. I followed the link, but once I saw the developer was “
天吴
“ I decided against downloading it.
Would it make ya feel safer if the developer was Google, Meta, Microsoft and etc...because these companies would never employ spyware?
 
You know, I thought of that exact thing as I wrote it as this being the most likely outcome. Cheaper to reverse engineer + destroy.
You think Apple has to reverse engineer using their own camera and video file format? Just because they do not enable a feature doesn't mean they do not know how. People here complain if they don't enable a feature and and then complain twice as much when they do.

 
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Hype? The problem with 3D was the TV manufactures with piss poor tech except maybe LG, I heard the C6 had great 3D for a TV. The ghosting, cross talk along with really lazy piss poor and sometimes lame 3D post production from movie studios eh Disney/Marvel to name one is at fault for 3D woes. Not to mention, well just a little, studios wanting to kill physical media for the inferior streaming. 3D is still alive elsewhere but rough to in the U.S. 3D wasn't really all hype because it was killed for various reasons here in the U.S.
Any of the LG 3D TVs have pretty good passive 3D and the 4K OLEDs are great. I have an E6 and hope it never breaks. The initial active 3D were a mediocre, expensive start, and the lack of 3D media was only exacerbated by stupid "exclusives" like bundling deals where you had to buy a Panasonic TV or Bluray player to get Avatar 3D, or buy a Samsung TV to get Shrek 3D. (I don't recall Marvel/Disney doing any of those exclusives, and their discs were usually some of the better ones, though I won't forgive them for leaving my Marvel collection incomplete by abandoning 3D outside of Japan, and dropping iTunes Digital Copies in Canada.) By the time the passive TVs came around, even I was sick of dealing with the various crap, but am very happy I still cared enough to buy the E6. I'm a 3D fanatic, but if I were to write a paper on how NOT to introduce a product, the 3D TV introduction would be the perfect example.
 
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Good to know. Hopefully the quality of spatial videos taken using the default camera app improves in the future.
 
Anyone with an avp comment how great spatial vision is?

Are you recording videos daily with this format?


Seems like it's higher quality (especially since it's HDR), but oddly it seems like it had an unintentional side-effect of making the toggle for recording spatial in the normal camera app to disappear on my iPhone (15 Pro Max). I've only had it installed for a few hours though and haven't tried to troubleshoot other than confirming that I have the spatial toggle still enabled in the camera settings.
 
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Apple has been good at *** THROTTLING *** Quality and Speed as they see fit to push out new iPhones every year.
Kinda why they are being sued.

Sad really we have come to that.
 
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