I currently have no use for spatial photos, can’t justify the price of the Vision Pro headset, and really don’t have a reason to have strong motivation.
Looking back at old family photos, I see sepia from my parents, faded from when I was a kid, and low rez/faded even from when my kids were little, looking across that timeline, the march of technology is clear. Older photos are noticeably older (even when not printed).
However I have a phone that can take spatial pictures and has extra storage, and I just had to raise my iCloud storage. Assuming spatial photos and videos becomes commonplace, it will be another noticeable jump in photo technology. Reviewers of the Vision Pro rave about them
Do you think
- spatial photos will become common/normal, or are just a fad like 3D tv?
- is there a standard format or is it Apple specific?
- it’s worth getting a jump on the technology for personal photos, even without a use yet? Presumably I will have a use at such time as I look back on personal photos
Currently this is just a gimmick/fad. There’s been no end of special photography/movie formats that required special headset viewers in the past and no matter how much attention they got at the time they ultimately failed to stick around due to this requirement. Consider these examples from three different centuries:
I struggle to see what’s different with the vision pro for this use case today. No matter how well it works, the headset requirement will relegate it to a novelty/fad.
There’s two differences which are notable.
You can capture them with your phone.
And they can be viewed by everyone without the headset as normal video.