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iOS 17.2: How to Record Spatial Video on iPhone 15 Pro

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If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 17.2 allows you to record spatial video for viewing in the Photos app on Apple's forthcoming Vision Pro headset. Here's how you can do it.

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Apple's Vision Pro headset is expected to be released around March 2024. Until then, one way you can prepare for it is to use your iPhone to record videos in a special format called spatial video that is made to be viewed on Apple's headset.

When viewed on iPhone, spatial video appear as normal videos, but they provide an immersive viewing experience on Vision Pro that is almost three-dimensional. Combined with advanced computational videography techniques and HEVC compression, spatial memories are saved in a relatively compact file size, recorded at 30 frames per second at 1080p, and taking up to 130MB of storage space for one minute of video.

Enabling Spatial Video

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max.
  2. Select Camera ➝ Formats.
  3. Scroll down to "Video Capture" and toggle on the switch next to Spatial Video for Apple Vision Pro.
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Recording Spatial Video

Apple says that spatial video is best recorded when your iPhone is stable and in landscape orientation. In the Camera app, switch to Video recording and then look for the Vision Pro headset icon in the viewfinder. Tap the icon to switch to spatial video mode. When you are ready to record, simply hit the red record button.

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Remember that a spatial video will look like a normal video if you watch it in the Photos app on your iPhone. But there is nothing to stop you from recording special moments in spatial video so that you can experience them on Apple Vision Pro when the headset is released in early 2024.

You can find all of the spatial videos you capture within a new Spatial album in the Photos app, and all of your spatial videos will sync across their devices with iCloud.

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TwoBytes said:
Is there a way to watch spatial video without the apple vision pro?
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You can rinse it through an app to watch it on a Meta Quest 3.

Alternatively use Record3D on any iPhone with a Truedepth or LiDAR camera and watch it back on the same device.

That layered look it how they would appear on the AVP because the camera cannot record behind an object in the foreground. What anyone is going to get is something closer to the 3D video scene in Minority Report than some sort of magical holodeck scene you can walk around.

(Or buy a 3DS!)
 
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Why can't the iPhone 14 pro record video for the vision pro? What's the hardware difference? :rolleyes:
 
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Spatial Video is cool and all that. What about Spatial Photos? Done right they can be quite impressive.
 
JosephAW said:
Why can't the iPhone 14 pro record video for the vision pro? What's the hardware difference? :rolleyes:
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Swapped camera positions, which was initially reported to accommodate the periscope lens in the 15 Pro Max.

The main lens and a crop of the wide lens are used for stereo vision. The image below show the lenses on the 14 Pro, with the arrows showing the swap between tele and wide on the 15 Pro.

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I took some “spatial” videos with the iPhone 15 Pro Max. I wasn’t impressed. The close spacing of the lenses means you have to be close to your subject for the 3D effect to work well, but it can be hard to fit people in frame with the relatively narrow vertical FOV when shooting stabilized landscape video.
Also, the mismatched apertures on the lenses means that the out of focus areas are blurrier for one camera than the other.
They did the best they could for a capture device that wasn’t designed to capture stereoscopic video, but that’s the best I can say about it.
 
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Well this does not matter to me as I have no plans to buy and no use for Apples vision Pro I would only take if it was offered for free 😂🤣
 
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Tripps9000 said:
Well this does not matter to me as I have no plans to buy and no use for Apples vision Pro I would only take if it was offered for free 😂🤣
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I suspect Vision Pro will not work with some vision impaired people. It might even throw them off balance. Just thinking. I have trouble with my vision since I got the more expensive Cataract Lenses. 6 months later they develop the ones that can be laser adjusted by the computer. Zip,Zip, Zap. A couple of adjustments, and a week or so later, no Glasses required - Perfect. I call them Level 3. I just cannot imagine wearing goggles. I agree , they will have to fit me in the store or bring one to my house and let me try it for Free for 14 or more days. I guess I like improvements ; so, I favor the full sized keyboard or the ones that were on the Intel Macs - The M1's are not the same size - slightly off. Goggles, I doubt it.
 
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GTBuzz said:
Then Put it in Your Pocket & Walk Off .
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And also wirelessly interact with other devices in all manner of ways.

I really wish Nintendo would rerelease Streetpass on mobile and piggyback the cross-platform Covid pings to do so.
 
I don't understand why they wouldn't let you preview the effect. If there is depth information you should be able to move the view in some way... otherwise, how is it 'spatial'?
 
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