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Asked on 2025-06-30
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Apple's WWDC 2025 sessions introduced various video profiles for visionOS, focusing on immersive video experiences. These profiles include:
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2D and 3D Video: These are traditional video formats that can be played inline within apps, with 3D videos falling back to 2D when necessary.
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Spatial Video: This format allows for stereo video to be inset behind a flat screen for a windowed presentation, providing a more immersive experience.
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180°, 360°, and Wide Field of View (FOV) Video: These formats are supported by the Apple Projected Media Profile (APMP) and can be mono or stereo. Typically, 180° videos are stereo, while 360° and wide FOV videos are mono. These videos use different projection types, such as equirectangular for 360° videos.
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Apple Immersive Video: This is the highest quality immersive experience, offering high-resolution stereo video calibrated to each lens in the capturing camera. It provides a fully immersive experience with high fidelity video and spatial audio.
For more detailed information on these video profiles, you can refer to the session Explore video experiences for visionOS (08:10) which covers 180°, 360°, and Wide FOV video, and Learn about the Apple Projected Media Profile (03:42) for the APMP specification.
Explore video experiences for visionOS
Learn about the different ways you can create and present immersive video experiences within your app. We’ll explore the diverse media types available in visionOS 26, including profiles for 180°, 360°, and wide FOV video; options for creating and playing Apple Immersive Video; and expanded capabilities for 2D, 3D, and spatial video. Discover which profiles are best for your app and its content.
Learn about the Apple Projected Media Profile
Dive into the Apple Projected Media Profile (APMP) and see how APMP enables 180º/360º and Wide FoV projections in QuickTime and MP4 files using Video Extended Usage signaling. We’ll provide guidance on using OS-provided frameworks and tools to convert, read/write, edit, and encode media containing APMP. And we’ll review Apple Positional Audio Codec’s (APAC) capabilities for creating and delivering spatial audio content for the most immersive experiences.
Support immersive video playback in visionOS apps
Discover how to play immersive videos in visionOS apps. We’ll cover various immersive rendering modes, review the frameworks that support them, and walk through how to render immersive video in your app. To get the most out of this video, we recommend first watching “Explore video experiences for visionOS” from WWDC25.