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What is Spatial Video?
Apple did not invent spatial video, but it brought it to the forefront after making it the most exciting feature in Vision Pro, Apple’s first spatial computer.
Apple has focused on the immersive experience that the user experiences when watching a spatial video. We can walk around the scene and feel like we are within it. This takes us back to the year 2009, when the movie Avatar brought 3D video to the forefront and made a major change in the photography and production of 3D films.
What is spatial video?
Spatial video is 3D video, but you can move around the scene in several directions: front/behind, right/left, above/below, and it also gives a greater sense of depth. In 3D video, two close-up lenses are used to capture the scene, and thus we get a video for each eye, which gives the impression, when showing a video to each eye, that the scene is 3D.
After Apple announced the spatial video feature; It made an update to the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, making it possible to capture spatial video, which could also be captured with the Vision Pro headset. The iPhone is not designed for this purpose, but it can use the primary and ultra-wide cameras in landscape orientation simultaneously to capture the scene from two close angles, at a resolution of 1080 pixels and 30 frames per second.
