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Here Are the New Immersive Films Coming to Apple Vision Pro

Apple desperately trying to create any form of content after 3rd parties don't want anything to do with that trainwreck.

Guess they shouldn't have spent the last 10 years antagonising developers.
 
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macduke said:
Instead of content providers lining up to produce content for Apple Vision Pro, Apple has to pay providers to come make videos for their platform. Anyone else think this is kinda pathetic and sad? Apple didn't have to incentivize anyone to come make apps for iPhone, iPad, etc. The market was there immediately. It's difficult to characterize the Apple Vision Pro as anything but a flop by Apple standards. And probably by many other standards, as well.

They need to cut the price and make it more comfortable. How do you do that? cut the weight, cut the front screen, and cut the M chip. Keep the R chip and have the processing power and system power run off of whatever Apple product it is plugged into via USB-C. Probably needs to be limited to device that support USB 3.0. Thunderbolt would be even better but iPhone Pro doesn't support that. But this thing desperately needs to be an accessory and not the entire computer. Or at least have an Air version that is an accessory and not the entire computer. $999.

Perhaps in the future they could have a proprietary high speed wireless interconnect using the Apple N series chip. The issue I see is there is no shot some future Apple Glasses are going to be able to do anything processor intensive in the next 10 years while being lightweight and stylish looking more like regular glasses. Not with near-future chip and battery tech. They should be an accessory to the iPhone like the Apple Watch and you wear it out with your iPhone. I know they desperately want it to be a separate computer but I just don't think that is feasible for quite some time.

Until then I would absolutely love to have a Vision Air Thunderbolt device that I can plug into my MacBook Pro for multiple virtual displays and plug into my iPad Pro while traveling to have a mobile movie theater on a plane while only paying $999 for something that is lightweight and comfortable. For me the biggest two use cases are extending my Mac display and consuming content. With my AirPods Pro 3 and the crazy ANC I could just shut out the entire world on a plane and be deeply immersed with a Vision Air!
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Patience. I'm sure we will get that vision air eventually, cause everything you wrote is true. You're tethered to a cable anyways cause of the battery. Just make it so that the processing unit in whatever form can sit in your pocket as well.
 
macduke said:
Instead of content providers lining up to produce content for Apple Vision Pro, Apple has to pay providers to come make videos for their platform. Anyone else think this is kinda pathetic and sad? Apple didn't have to incentivize anyone to come make apps for iPhone, iPad, etc. The market was there immediately. It's difficult to characterize the Apple Vision Pro as anything but a flop by Apple standards. And probably by many other standards, as well.

They need to cut the price and make it more comfortable. How do you do that? cut the weight, cut the front screen, and cut the M chip. Keep the R chip and have the processing power and system power run off of whatever Apple product it is plugged into via USB-C. Probably needs to be limited to device that support USB 3.0. Thunderbolt would be even better but iPhone Pro doesn't support that. But this thing desperately needs to be an accessory and not the entire computer. Or at least have an Air version that is an accessory and not the entire computer. $999.

Perhaps in the future they could have a proprietary high speed wireless interconnect using the Apple N series chip. The issue I see is there is no shot some future Apple Glasses are going to be able to do anything processor intensive in the next 10 years while being lightweight and stylish looking more like regular glasses. Not with near-future chip and battery tech. They should be an accessory to the iPhone like the Apple Watch and you wear it out with your iPhone. I know they desperately want it to be a separate computer but I just don't think that is feasible for quite some time.

Until then I would absolutely love to have a Vision Air Thunderbolt device that I can plug into my MacBook Pro for multiple virtual displays and plug into my iPad Pro while traveling to have a mobile movie theater on a plane while only paying $999 for something that is lightweight and comfortable. For me the biggest two use cases are extending my Mac display and consuming content. With my AirPods Pro 3 and the crazy ANC I could just shut out the entire world on a plane and be deeply immersed with a Vision Air!
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Well you can feel like a genius because if you had read macrumors you would know they are already working on a cheaper lighter Air version of the AVP.
 
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syklee26 said:
Apple's feature films should also have immersive version. And why is Apple not doing immersive video on their MLS package?
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Ignoring the sheer complexity and cost of making a fully-immersive feature film compared to a traditional one, the big issue is that with conventional film, the director controls where the viewer is watching to ensure they can follow the action and therefore the story. Make that immersive, and you miss the aliens burst through the wall behind you because you're still looking at the space marines in front of you. And that critical bit where the spy slips the microfilm into the fruit bowl? You were looking the other way watching the Russian seductress slipping her dress off.
 
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NightFox said:
Ignoring the sheer complexity and cost of making a fully-immersive feature film compared to a traditional one, the big issue is that with conventional film, the director controls where the viewer is watching to ensure they can follow the action and therefore the story. Make that immersive, and you miss the aliens burst through the wall behind you because you're still looking at the space marines in front of you. And that critical bit where the spy slips the microfilm into the fruit bowl? You were looking the other way watching the Russian seductress slipping her dress off.
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Correct. This also highlights what is likely an impossible problem to solve for.

What we are seeing, when and how, is a massive part of what makes a great movie (and movie director) so compelling.
That is part of the actual storytelling and experience.

When people say they want "an immersive movie" I'm not really even sure what they are asking for exactly.

I assume something different than an immersive concert/sports experience, where one can look around and at whatever as though there in real life, as that would make no sense and be basically impossible to do in a movie setting.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
Correct. This also highlights what is likely an impossible problem to solve for.

What we are seeing, when and how, is a massive part of what makes a great movie (and movie director) so compelling.
That is part of the actual storytelling and experience.

When people say they want "an immersive movie" I'm not really even sure what they are asking for exactly.

I assume something different than an immersive concert/sports experience, where one can look around and at whatever as though there in real life, as that would make no sense and be basically impossible to do in a movie setting.
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There's a way to make A movie in an immersive way, just not really a movie as we all currently understand them. But I can imagine somebody making an immersive scene/experience, a movie of a specific sort. Part "Choose Your Own Adventure", part environmental storytelling. You could still tell a story, but you'd have to do it in a very diffrent way. Almost like a video game that does in-game narrative rather than non-interactive cut scenes.
 
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There's a way to make A movie in an immersive way, just not really a movie as we all currently understand them. But I can imagine somebody making an immersive scene/experience, a movie of a specific sort. Part "Choose Your Own Adventure", part environmental storytelling. You could still tell a story, but you'd have to do it in a very diffrent way. Almost like a video game that does in-game narrative rather than non-interactive cut scenes.
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... that's what most people would call a game, not a movie.
 
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lovehateapple said:
Is this immersive video content free for VP owners? There's no mention of a charge for it, so I assume it is free...
If U2 ever releases a video of their Sphere concert for the VP or if I could watch the Masters golf tournament on it, I would buy one today.
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Not sure even the AVP can recreate that feeling of seeing U2 at the Sphere. Best concert I’ve ever been to.

That being said, the Bono immersive video was really good, as are some of the other concert immersive videos from Apple.
 
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