Chrome is using its monopoly status to boycott JPEG XL, while Safari adopts it first.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Bringing Spatial Photo and Video Support to Safari for Vision Pro Users
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I'm guessing this is sarcasm. It's good to use /s when you aren't clear (although if you are well known as sarcastic on the forums I apologize).
This is great news for us AVP owners. Almost all the videos I make are now spatial videos.
Unfortunately, Apple being forced to open iOS up to Chromium will further erode its market share.
The ability to turn any photo into spatial on visionOS has become one of my favourite things to do on Vision Pro. I find myself browsing for long lengths of time just looking at photos and memories after adding depth to them.
Once a 2D photo is converted on AVP to 3D, it retains that property in Photos. I assume that the same will be true for the iPhone conversions. How about converting 2D video to 3D. That would be nice, and rather processor intensive, but, then, we all have the M4 chip in our non-phone devices.
I feel the same way and find the possibilities offered by Spatial Media Toolkit (for macOS) for converting 2D videos a mindblowing addition. Also, the free adjustment of depth on images sometimes produces more convincing results than Apple did in its first release. I'm sure Apple is optimizing to comp(l)ete.
Last edited:
3d tv only needed only light weight glasses, how is a bigger and heavier headset; a better experience? Saying so doesn't make it so.
Yes, and yes. Quite humorous. I back that up with the dozen Vision Pros behind me that are also laughing softly
If the wearing of hardware were the whole of the experience, you might have a point.
HazeAndHahmahneez
macrumors regular
surprised you didn’t say NFL…maaaan if only that Apple TV NFL deal went through and not that goddamn Smoogle/youtube : (
That’s premium seating. Comfort of the crib, spatial 3d game day experience at the 50 yahd Line…Jesus mary n joseph
Why does smoogle have to infect everything it seems. 😷
Speak that truth!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!
🫵🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👐🏽🤜🏽👊🏽🙏🏽
that pron biz would like to have a word w you…
WAIT WAIT.
ANY old pic from the good ol Apple photo app camera roll can be converted and viewed spatially???!!!!….that halfway 3d effect??? Then why have special lenses at all And not just any ol photo can be one…it takes time to convert so for convenience sake?…
so with this toolkit any video taken w iPhone from before the 15 can convert into spatial??….
When the ai fake spatial effect works it works really well, but it has some significant shortcomings with some photos. Look for things like reflections in windows. Some photos just lack real depth and instead look like a bunch of flat things in space. An actual spatial photo taken with the hardware cameras will always look better. And that same hardware is the only thing that makes spatial video possible, where there is no ai solution (yet?).
Yeah, it's pretty wild to experience. Any photo, even old ones I have in my library pre-iPhone days. Takes a few seconds to convert a photo to spatial, and then once it is, that specific photo will show as spatial by default when you browse the library.
Vision Pro users will soon be able to view spatial photos and videos in Safari, according to PetaPixel. The photography site did an interview with Apple product manager Della Huff and designer Billy Sorrentino, who shared that Apple is bringing spatial photo and spatial video support to Safari.
Later this year, web developers will be able to add spatial photos and videos to their websites, which will be viewable in 3D on the Vision Pro.
Spatial photos and videos can be captured with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, as well as all four iPhone 16 models and the Vision Pro itself. Note that spatial photo support for the iPhone 15 Pro is coming in iOS 18.1, set to be released next week. With Vision Pro and visionOS 2, even existing photos can have added depth.
As of right now, spatial photos and videos can only be viewed on Vision Pro when they're sent to you directly via Messages, email, or AirDrop, which makes it difficult to see content from other people. Browser support for spatial videos and photos will let iPhone users upload their content to websites where anyone with a Vision Pro can see it in 3D.
For those without a Vision Pro, spatial photos and videos will look like standard media embeds. "Once you embedded spatial content, folks who are on Vision Pro are getting spatial and folks who are just looking at it on their laptop see it in two dimensions," Sorrentino told PetaPixel.
There is no word on exactly when spatial photo and video support will be coming to Safari, but it is expected before the end of the year so it could be included in a visionOS 2.2 update.
Article Link: Apple Bringing Spatial Photo and Video Support to Safari for Vision Pro Users
Considering Apple mindset shown with the iPhone, basically believing they have single handled the creation of the iPhone App market, I wonder if they will soon find the software market willing to invest their innovations on top of Apple technology.
Regardless of its potential. The fact is that potential by itself is not useful to user per si. Quickly goes to the drawer. You need a lot of stuff on top it done by third parties, a vibrant community trusting the OEM. Will see what happens. But I suspect that Vision Pro users will be for decades stuck with the current status quo of the device … potential.
Last edited:
Right, both!
But not in your metaverse, obviously.