Does it support actual vr180 format videos? If not seems like a waste.
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Apple Releases New Immersive Video App for Mac and Vision Pro
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For sure everyone will buy the next iPhone with tariffs 🙂One of the rumors was 8K video on the next iPhone. If so, then I would suspect that it will allow people to do this in 8K. I've done spatial video in lower res, but this could be cool.
From a quick price check this seems to be in a price segment of €5-10k.
The Insta X4 is more of an action cam, with quite impressive video quality (especially for its size) imho, and it was less than €600. Just the lack of 2nd lens is what's missing I guess…
Would be really interesting if Apple moved into this market, basically a dumbed down iPhone with some special fish eye lenses on both sides.
But what's the total market of action cams? Likely even reaching 100% market share there would barely move Apple's balance sheet/stock price… 😅 so why should they care to enter this market?
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8K video? Have they seen the storage on Macs these days? Oh, wait, that's THEIR FAULT.
This is a joke. 8k video is stupid unless you're shooting Imax movies. If you're not projecting it on a 70 foot screen, 4k is good enough.
This is a joke. 8k video is stupid unless you're shooting Imax movies. If you're not projecting it on a 70 foot screen, 4k is good enough.
Actually it's common practice amongst videographers to shoot in 8k with the intent to be able to crop down to 4k.
They have one that they designed and use internally, you mean they'll package and ship it? It would compete with the blackmagic one which is 10k IIRC
Serious question - what about the R7 with the 144 degree lens?
I just bought one of these (because iPhone footage is...well, like looking through a small window). Haven't even turned it on yet - but I wanted to buy it before the price goes up $1000.
The R5 is not only more expensive, but the 180 degree range requires special tripod extensions, etc to avoid shooting feet and tripod legs.
If the new app requires 8K, can I just upconvert with Topaz AI?
In the broad scheme of things, thousands is a very small number. There are probably more Bugatti owners, and it costs about a million $ more.
I think the accepted figure for AVP sales is in the hundreds of thousands not merely thousands. I'm pretty sure I saw 500,000-600,000 mentioned numerous times from different sources.
By comparison, in 2007, Apple sold around 1.4 million iPhones and were broadly mocked by many, including famously by the former CEO of Microsoft Steve Balmer, due to the high cost and missing features such as cut and paste or a keyboard. And yet here we are 18 years later and the iPhone is selling hundreds of millions of units a year. And the iPhone was $500 whereas the AVP is $3500+ so even accounting for time-value of money, the AVP is a more expensive and niche product.
I'm not suggesting the AVP will be the next iPhone and we may never see a product success story like the iPhone in the next 100 years, but it would be very short-sighted to completely dismiss the AVP given the investment already made by Apple and the obvious potential of the device/category. However, the AVP can't succeed without good content and that is a chicken & egg situation which Apple are slowly addressing by partnering with Blackmagic Design to design the immersive camera system, and sponsoring content creation to encourage others to do the same.
It would be easy to argue that Apple released the AVP a year or so too early, and I for one delayed my purchase until December 2024 by which time I could see Vision OS 2 improvements and more content available. But the content can't really be created without the devices to view it on, hence the chicken & egg situation.
The ultimate AVP won't look like the current product any more than the latest iPhone looks like the original, but I don't think history will see the AVP as a failure. Feel free to come back here in 5 years or so and tell me I was wrong. 😅
Indeed! As much as I enjoyed the Metallica video, I hope they'd release a full length video of the whole concert. They for sure have tons of material of the full show. These sweet cameras flying through the air were for sure recording the full event, so let's make it available please!
Now if only I could find the time to use the Blackmagic 3D camera ($30k).....
How about converting to Spatial from 2D? Without paying $60 for the app....
How about converting to Spatial from 2D? Without paying $60 for the app....
Get one of these if you are serious. The Metallica video has these flying around the stadium.
What Apple needs for the ultimate movie watching experience is BigScreenVR.
I jumped ahead in the video to show the various movie theatre options. I watch movies with this in VR on my Quest 2. You can watch online with people streaming, or you can load your own movies on and watch by yourself. It is by far the best moving watching experience in VR.
I jumped ahead in the video to show the various movie theatre options. I watch movies with this in VR on my Quest 2. You can watch online with people streaming, or you can load your own movies on and watch by yourself. It is by far the best moving watching experience in VR.
Bruh this means macOS support starting macOS 16/17 may ax Intel forever and depreciate it?
If y'all saw behind the scenes of Submerged Immersive movie they had these special filmography cameras and these gantry mounts for these 180/360 degree cameras used to capture AR/VR/XR videos.
Yes, and there are additional signs that macOS 16 could end support for Intel.
The latest Mac’s y’all can use with macOS 15 is 2018 and higher mac minis and MBPs and 2020+ MacBook Airs, iMac Pro, 2019 iMacs and later, and the 2019 and later cheesegrater mac pro.
More things that surround requirements with M1 and later ARM
silicon things are also hindering Intel Macs to being incompatible with macOS versions in the future. No iPhone Mirroring for the remaining Intel ones.