Thanks Jason. I understand, but I believe it’s confusing. It’s so confusing that even today, some people insist that Vision Pro can take photos and videos with parallax.

Yes- but is your player easily downloadable? Ease of use is important.

The early testing I did with a native custom player showed that MV-HEVC videos could be played back at resolutions and bitrates higher than SBS and OU formats.

Spatial videos are in MV-HEVC format. SBS videos can be converted to it and then played natively though I do not think there is any advantage to doing this. Apples immersive videos (VR180) are also in MV-HEVC format and have Spatial Audio added. The immersive videos in the Apple TV+ app were shot in VR180 8k 90fps supposedly using custom rigs. Would be cool if Mic could find out more information on their rig

I tend to agree that anyone who has been fascinated and immersed themselves (filmed, edited, viewed etc) for awhile, in recent years, in 360 imagery/video and 3D stereoscopic imagery/video will recognize it as exactly what you see when using the AVP. Done very well. And, of course, then on top of that floating menus appear (which do have some small parallax effect).

I imagine once we have cameras/recording systems that are able to affordably capture the parallax effect which Mic understandably longs for, then it will be available for viewing on AVP and other systems.

I predict Apple expects that 360 & 3D video, plus Augmented Reality, plus iOS apps, and the ability to pin screens at varying spatial locations, etc, delivered in incredibly high clear resolution, in the short term will wow almost everyone who has not already been obsessed with 360 video etc, and in the long term could deliver a new level of content which will bring an entirely new and much larger audience to this world many who frequent this site have been a part of for quite awhile.

I think this first gen AVP and first year are primarily for app and content creators who want to jump on board early hoping to monetize their work in the very early days, like those who built the very first apps for the iPhone.

I’m in several groups. I think the main discussion was in two of them. One was this one. I can’t remember the name of the other(s). If you search Facebook you should be able to find them.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1692265674578109

HI Dean, Could you be specific about what Facebook group you are referencing and that you are part of? I really would like to find out how to view the videos and stills made with the Canon 180 vr set up on the Vision Pro. Thanks, Bryan

In some of the Vision Pro groups on Facebook. I created my app using Xcode and Swift. My main purposes for this were to see the 2D/3D image quality, first-hand, so I could make a purchase decision, see what video format was required, and see what was available in the Apple APIs to display 3D. It’s really unfortunate that Apple hasn’t provided immersive VR360 playback in their apps. Hopefully, that will change. I had fears it might require some low-level access to the core APIs. Fortunately, that was not the case.