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Lapz App Lets You Watch Formula 1 Races on Apple Vision Pro
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Only for those territories with access to F1 TV Pro so not the UK with Sky TV calling the shots.
It’s one of the main reasons I bought my Vision Pro.
Quite easy to subscribe to F1 TV Pro in the UK with a VPN etc. I’ve been doing it for months with no issues.
I prefer the Vroom app which is similar but allows more customisation
Quite easy to subscribe to F1 TV Pro in the UK with a VPN etc. I’ve been doing it for months with no issues.
I prefer the Vroom app which is similar but allows more customisation
you should go to a shop and check out the immersive trailer, there’s football and american football demos, sports look unreal with those cameras
Now this is the type of thing that would sell Vision Pros. I would buy one if it offered truly unique and amazing sports coverage. This isn't that, but it's moving in the right direction.
This is how I've thought about AVP since Day 1 of seeing it. It's 99% putting 2D windows in a 3D world. That to me is mostly pointless because, as you said, you can do the same thing in a multi-monitor setup. PLUS, other people can enjoy it. The AVP isolates you for only you to enjoy. Which to some, may be all they care about. The AVP really needed to deliver immersion, like courtside games in basketball, hockey, concerts, etc. where they put you in a seat as if you paid for an in-person ticket. That's what would have made the AVP an instant hit. Instead, it has to drag on for a few years to see whether or not it gets the plug pulled until they change their approach.
I don’t care about F1 at all but this looks very cool!
Does it have the option to go into POV mode and see the race as if you were the pilot??
Does it have the option to go into POV mode and see the race as if you were the pilot??
You kind of do, depending on the camera setup in the car. (Some drivers’ cameras are in the cockpit and some are slightly above the cockpit). But the picture quality from those feeds is really low, so I wouldn’t want to watch an entire race like that. It’s not immersive or anything like that.
To be clear, that’s a feature of F1 TV, not this app. The app is just a fancy player for F1 TV. With the exception of the 3D map, you could recreate the setup with multiple monitors. But, it’s 100% the best way to watch F1 IMO.
Yeah I was thinking about a 360 degree recording that completely surrounds you with video lol
I don’t even know if AVP can do that considering that it’s intentionally avoiding VR, but it would be pretty cool
I guess at that point I might as well play a racing sim on a VR headset, but I’m really bad at those haha
I do wonder if it would catch on if there were a way to "sit in the best seat and watch a game" (pick your favorite sport) with something like AVP
i think other sports are much more likely… like you don’t need a camera on every footballer to have a good visual experience, just cameras around the field
Wait, you are saying that a big headset with a powerpack is more constraining than trying to set up a few 60-80 inch screens in one of your rooms to watch a sporting event? I would need a Tardis to fit the physical versions of those screens in my room.
I am guessing I would be one of those four people. If I had the Vision Pro.
I'd love this. The commenters and race filming director too often misses fun stuff down the order of the race and cuts away from action etc. etc.
Sadly, it does show how "limited" the Vision Pro is. Its amazing functionality, but the use case is very narrow.
As a super F1 fan I would gladly use this when I am alone, but when I am watching it it with friends then.. all of us would have to have the vision pros on our heads and not only are they not going to buy them, the whole idea of watching F1 and socializing goes away if everybody has to wear goggles.
Same as the example of watching a movie with your sweetheart. "OH NO. DONT GET TOO CLOSE OR WE MIGHT SCRATCH THE GOGGLES!!" uhh... but...
I'd love this. The commenters and race filming director too often misses fun stuff down the order of the race and cuts away from action etc. etc.
Sadly, it does show how "limited" the Vision Pro is. Its amazing functionality, but the use case is very narrow.
As a super F1 fan I would gladly use this when I am alone, but when I am watching it it with friends then.. all of us would have to have the vision pros on our heads and not only are they not going to buy them, the whole idea of watching F1 and socializing goes away if everybody has to wear goggles.
Same as the example of watching a movie with your sweetheart. "OH NO. DONT GET TOO CLOSE OR WE MIGHT SCRATCH THE GOGGLES!!" uhh... but...
Agreed. Watched a couple of live NBA games in vr 180 last year on the quest and…yeah that’s a level up from anything you get on a 2d screen. Very immersive and great platform to hang with friends in a virtual space.
Apple needs to incentivize more sports leagues to create 180/3d content if it wants its platform to have a fighting chance. I know that Meta has been doing this with the Xtadium app, and even that needs way more content.
This is where Apple dropped the ball. The tech out there for this stuff exists and should have used their brand to incentivize a big push for this content and they haven't. Things need to actually be immersive for this type of computing and not simply putting 2D windows in a 3D environment. As a mainstream product no one wants to pay $4k for how it is now.