Last month, Apple announced that support for it would be adding support for spatial photos and spatial videos to Safari. In a new interview with PetaPixel, Apple confirmed that this feature is on track to arrive this year.
PetaPixel spoke with Apple designer Billy Sorrentino and product manager Della Huff, who confirmed that spatial photo and video support is coming soon to Safari:
“Once you embedded spatial content, folks who are on Vision Pro are getting spatial and folks who are just looking at it on their laptop see it in two dimensions,” Sorrentino says.
“And at the same time, you can create all sorts of photos into spatial photos [in Vision Pro] including old historical photos. You could do this to all your old product reviews, you could to it to World War II photos, video game screenshots… I mean, what’s so cool about this technology is it gives us the ability to take things into that next dimension.”
When Apple first announced support for this feature last month, it explained that users will be able to tap on a spatial photo on the web with Vision Pro for an immersive experience:
You can embed the photo in a web page, and provide the ability to tap. The photo will pop into a floating frame as the Safari window disappears. Then when the user taps on the spatial photo or panorama UI that visionOS provides, the photo will further expand to create a more immersive experience. When they exit the image, the Safari window will return.
As a refresher, spatial photos and videos can be captured with Vision Pro itself. Spatial photos and spatial videos can also be taken with the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the entire iPhone 16 lineup.
Once available, this will make it drastically easier for users to share and publish spatial photos and videos. Currently, this content can only be viewed on Vision Pro when accessed via Messages, email, AirDrop, and the Files app. Availability via the web will dramatically streamline things, and it’s coming later this year – likely with visionOS 2.2.
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