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I called this when the vision Pro was announced [1]; so I'm going to take this opportunity to call something new (if you can tolerate my "bragginess" :)), even though both are not really crazy to predict. Apple is already producing new content for Apple TV+ in this spacial video format. It will probably be released along with the Vision Pro or before EoY 2024.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225900

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My prediction is that all of Apple's recent aerial videos that are available as screensavers were shot in 3D and will eventually be released as such. It's just too much of a coincidence that they released all that content when they did. It's absolutely perfect content for the headset.

It also explains the kinda-cool but kinda-weird content released by Disney such as the Star Wars Biomes and Vehicle fly-throughs. Expect those to be released in 3D alongside the headset.

Ultimately, we're going to be able to play HoloChess against R2-D2 inside the Millennium Falcon, stand on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, or examine Uncle Owen's charred remains on Tattoine.

Actually... you probably can scratch that last one. ;)

At the very least, Monarch Legacy of Monsters. Slow Horses -- which is an amazing series everyone should watch -- would benefit much less from this treatment.

There are some scenes in the latest episode of Foundation, particularly those in Trantor, where I found the shots/focus with "weird" focus and depths of field. I have a personal theory that those were already shot with spatial video capture, designed for Vision Pro in mind.

Tangentially, if you gave up on Foundation on S1 like a couple of my friends, S2 is much much better. And if you're a book purist they sort of explain why there are differences between the show and the books in a relatively decent way.

Foundation scenes with weird focus turned out to be plot related in S2.

I'm not a book purist, but I have seen only season 1.

And I bet an other Avatar movie with Apple money

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