Key Takeaways
Later in 2024, spatial images and video will be accessible through the Safari browser.
The 18.1 iOS update, which will be available on October 28, will enable the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max to take spatial images.
Photos and videos in Safari will look flat when viewed outside of the headset.
Later in 2024, Safari will support the spatial photographs feature found on the MR headset Apple Vision Pro.
Later this year, Safari on Vision Pro will begin to handle spatial images and movies, according to PetaPixel. Currently, this feature is only accessible via the Photo app or if the photo is shared via Airdrop, iMessage, or another sharing mechanism. Developers will be able to incorporate spatial pictures into their websites now that Safari is included in the list of approved apps.
Apple Design Team member Billy Sorrentino states that the device a person uses determines how they view photos, with laptop users seeing spatial content in two dimensions and Vision Pro users seeing it in three dimensions.
Users must have the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, the iPhone 16 models, or the Vision Pro itself in order to take spatial images and films. This feature will be accessible with the iOS 18.1 release. On October 28, Apple declared that the 15th iteration of the iPhone would be available.
Additionally, even if the viewing content is more constrained, the headset makes it possible to turn any snapshot into a spatial image. According to Sorrentino, it is applicable to almost any visual material:
“All of your earlier product reviews, World War II photos, video game screenshots, etc., might be used in this way. The capacity to take things to the next level is, in fact, what makes this technology so awesome.
There are other headsets that can play spatial images and videos than Vision Pro. Users can now play this type of footage captured by any iPhone running iOS 17 or later thanks to an upgrade that Meta provided earlier in the spring of 2024 for its Quest series.
With pricing starting at $3,499 at the official shop, the Apple Vision Pro is now among the priciest headsets available. The next, less expensive version will be released by the corporation in 2025.
