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Outlook: Apple's headset faces strong headwinds It did so in the smartphone market with the iPhone, wearables with the Apple Watch and true wireless audio with AirPods. While the report name-checks September as the point when mass production is expected to begin, even that might turn out to have been an overly optimistic forecast.Īpple, of course, is used to proving the critics wrong, having repeatedly entered unfamiliar markets before quickly becoming the dominant player. With that kind of mood music in the background, many wonder if Apple is setting itself up to fail in this brand new product category. To put that premium sum into a wider market perspective, that's three times the price of the Meta Quest Pro, which recently had to slash $500 off its MSRP.

For now, we’ll just have to get used to the complex workaround.That perhaps shouldn’t be surprising given the rumored $3,000 price tag, reiterated in this report. We’ll have to wait and see what Meta has up its sleeve, but we’d be surprised if it wasn’t working on a direct counter to spatial video for the Quest headsets. Meta doesn’t make smartphones so we suspect it won’t care what device your recordings are made on so the process should be as simple on one phone as any other.

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Given its history of creating a walled garden we expect Apple won’t make it easy to send 3D videos recorded on, say, one of the best Samsung phones to your Vision Pro – or at least not as simple as if it was shot on an iPhone. The other advantage of a Quest solution is that if other phones gain the ability to record 3D video like the iPhone 15 Pro then you likely won’t be locked into the Apple ecosystem. The Quest 3 might keep its title as the best VR headset for most people.

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But at the end of the day Apple’s simply offering user-created 3D video, and the Quest 3 is clearly only a software update or two from offering a near-identical feature at a fraction of the price the Quest 3 starts at $499.99 / £479.99 / AU$799.99 while the Apple Vision Pro will start at $3,499 (around £2,800 / AU$5,300).Īll Meta needs to do is launch a one-stop shop app that can more easily convert and transfer videos from an iPhone to your Quest and it’s there – perhaps introducing this as an update to the existing Meta Quest phone app that already enables video and photo transfer from your headset to your smartphone. Spatial video isn’t a Quest 3 killer after allĪpple has established spatial video recording and viewing as one of the standout Vision Pro features – it even invited our US editor-in-chief to a private viewing just so he could experience spatial video, that’s how big a deal it wants this feature to be.Īnd by all accounts spatial video is impressive.

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We won’t go into it here, but YouTuber Hugh Hou has a tutorial on this, and the video will also explain how to record 3D film using your Quest 3 headset. To get a slightly cleaner end result there is a more complex way to send the video from your PC to your headset using Sidequest and FFMPEG. In this sample provided by Apple, you can see how the candle smoke appears to float toward you – it's a trippier effect when you're wearing the Vision Pro headset.

Lastly, open up your Meta Quest 3’s Files app, and watch the spatial video. Allow file transfer and move the file to your Meta Quest 3’s video folder. Send the new video file to your PC – an easy method is to AirDrop it to a Mac if you have one – then connect your Meta Quest 3 to your computer using a USB-C cable. Now, just save the video in this new format.

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Here you’ll want to tap on Export to other format, and then select Full Side-By-Side. Your next step is to join the Spatialify beta, which you can join after downloading TestFlight onto your iPhone 15 Pro as well.īoot up Spatialify, select the Pick from Photo Library option, choose the spatial video you want to watch and then tap on the three dots menu icon in the top right of the screen. If it shows a red bubble with an outline of a visor then you’re recording spatial video. To make sure that the recording is a 3D format, look at the red recording icon at the top of the screen.

Here's how you enable spatial video in the latest iOS 17.2 public beta.