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Apple Seeds Ninth visionOS 2 Beta to Developers

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Apple today released the ninth beta of an upcoming visionOS 2 update to developers, with the beta coming a week after the eighth beta.

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Registered developers are able to opt into the betas by opening up the Settings app on their device, going to the Software Update Section, tapping on the "Beta Updates" option, and toggling on the Developer Beta. Note that an Apple ID associated with a developer account is required to download and install the beta.

visionOS 2 is able to take the depth information from 2D photos and turn them into 3D photos using advanced machine learning. Apple says that the feature is meant to add depth to photos to make memories more immersive.

There are new hand gestures for activating the Home View and Control Center, and the Home View is also now customizable with apps able to be rearranged. Travel Mode now includes support for trains, and Guest User profiles are now saved for 30 days so guests don't have to do the setup process every time they try out the headset.

Later in the year, Mac Virtual Display will support higher resolution and larger sized virtual displays, which Apple says will be equivalent to two 4K monitors side by side. With an AirPlay update, the Vision Pro can serve as an AirPlay receiver, so content from the iPhone, iPad, or Mac can be shared to the headset.

The Mindfulness app can track and respond to breathing patterns using the camera for an improved meditation experience, and the Vision Pro supports Bluetooth mice with visionOS 2.

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I think, as optimistic as i was that Apple would really put their resources behind fully fleshing this product out for its big release, showing the pessimistic world how wrong it was selling AR/VR short, at the rate theyre going I’d be in the market for one in about 5-10 more years. It is still the only product I have high hopes they’ll really do well, but I hope we look back on v.1 the same way we look back on the original macbook pro & iphone pretty quickly.
 
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I slowly have started to use mine regularly again after months of very little use. Infuse has been regularly updating their TestFlight app and are finally to a point where I can stream everything in my webDAV server properly. That plus the visionOS 2 beta has been exactly what I wanted since release day, I've watched ~1.5 seasons of Star Trek TNG through this setup over the past month.
 
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dannyyankou said:
Interesting that they're still seeding updates for VisionOS and not iPhone and Apple Watch.
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Beta 8 had a few showstoppers including the new screen alignment option in Settings.app not working—forcing a hard power pull.
 
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Still have flicker problems when blinking and moving head and eyes to one side.
 
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The funny thing for me is that I'm old enough to remember when the Mac was introduced. The "gimmicky device" with a "graphical user interface"?. A "pointing device" to use it? "Fonts? who needs fonts!" So many skeptics and critics. "It surely isn't a serious computing device!" "It'll never catch on!" There was also the complaints about the price of the first Mac. $2,500 in 1984 ($7,500 in today's dollars)!!!! Not enough RAM! No software for it! And yet here we are today, where the thought of using a computer without a GUI or mouse would be unthinkable to anyone other than a developer. LOL! Granted, the tech behind the VP is going to take 5 years to refine into a fully-adoptable end user device, but I'm so glad I get to experience it now in it's current form.
 
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fatTribble said:
I didn’t do the beta so I’m super excited to get all of these changes especially the 2D to spatial photos. 🤓
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That is one of the standout features of Vision OS 2.

Can’t wait for them to bring it to video and not just stills. I imagine the neural CPU workload would be phenomenal but the ability to bring old video ‘to life’ spatially would be awesome. My father-in-law died earlier this year and I can imagine just how moving it would be for my wife, kids and family to share past videoed experiences in spatial. People forget how Apple is one of the few companies that ‘gets’ the emotional impact of a well designed feature, UI or product that ‘just works’ for people who don’t care about tech.
 
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I use it regularly to listen to music and research things at the end of the day in a comfy chair after being at my desk all day. It’s very relaxing. I really appreciate being able to have so many things open at once. An article, some paper, multiple safari windows, ChatGPT. I have a Magic Keyboard and mouse nearby which I think is a must to be “productive”. If you like the feeling of being surrounded by information then you get it. If they can greatly enhance the display for your Mac aspect I think that will move some units. It’s passable right now.
 
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re-cycle said:
That is one of the standout features of Vision OS 2.

Can’t wait for them to bring it to video and not just stills. I imagine the neural CPU workload would be phenomenal but the ability to bring old video ‘to life’ spatially would be awesome. My father-in-law died earlier this year and I can imagine just how moving it would be for my wife, kids and family to share past videoed experiences in spatial. People forget how Apple is one of the few companies that ‘gets’ the emotional impact of a well designed feature, UI or product that ‘just works’ for people who don’t care about tech.
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These apps exist today, and if you're not too fussy you can process 2D to 3D videos in close to real time on a Mac for not a lot of money with Spatial Media Toolkit. Owl3D has more options for more money and more time, and there are other options too. Here's an article I wrote about it recently: https://www.provideocoalition.com/3d-stereoscopic-video-fake-it-or-make-it/
 
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funwithstuff said:
These apps exist today, and if you're not too fussy you can process 2D to 3D videos in close to real time on a Mac for not a lot of money with Spatial Media Toolkit. Owl3D has more options for more money and more time, and there are other options too. Here's an article I wrote about it recently: https://www.provideocoalition.com/3d-stereoscopic-video-fake-it-or-make-it/
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Excellent article, thanks. I will be trying some of the solutions you list and watching this space with interest.
 
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The widescreen support in the next beta is all I care about. I do t use it much now other than updating it.

It’s just not robust and limited on default apps and functions still. Really was released too early
 
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BarrettF77 said:
The widescreen support in the next beta is all I care about. I do t use it much now other than updating it.

It’s just not robust and limited on default apps and functions still. Really was released too early
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I agree. It’s just embarrassing for Apple that core Apple apps are still relying on the iPad versions. Maps for example - their 3D mapping is very impressive on an iPad, imagine viewing that in 3D. Home, Contacts, etc should be pretty straightforward to port.
 
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TallGuyGT said:
I agree. It’s just embarrassing for Apple that core Apple apps are still relying on the iPad versions. Maps for example - their 3D mapping is very impressive on an iPad, imagine viewing that in 3D. Home, Contacts, etc should be pretty straightforward to port.
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Apple's lack of support for their own platform is quite possibly the biggest disappointment of Apple Vision Pro. It's just not a software engineering priority.
 
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