video profiles

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:

  1. 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.

  2. Spatial Video: This format allows for stereo video to be inset behind a flat screen for a windowed presentation, providing a more immersive experience.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.