Though Apple Vision Pro defaults to video playback in an augmented reality setting with the content placed on a virtual “screen” in their physical space, that’s far from the only option. The “screen” can be placed anywhere in your space, or you can choose to use what Apple is calling Environments, which allows the user to expand the virtual screen and/or place it inside a virtual viewing room.
The Apple TV app, for example, includes the “Cinema” environment, replicating a movie theater while allowing you to “choose their favorite seat from the floor or balcony, and the front, middle, or back row.” In the Disney+ app, environments include The Disney+ Theater (based on the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood), the Scare Floor from “Monsters Inc.,” Avengers Tower with a view of lower Manhattan, and the cockpit of Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder from “Star Wars,” complete with the famous dual sunset on Tatooine in the background.
The headset will launch with “more than 150-inch 3D movies available, as well, with titles mentioned in the press release being Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Dune,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” The 3D versions of movies from Apple TV will not cost extra, and if you already own the 2D versions, you will automatically have access to the new 3D versions. The press release adds that “several streaming apps” will have 3D content at launch and release new ones either alongside or shortly after their 2D release, but only Disney+ was specifically named.
