Sandwich Launches Theater for Vision Pro (and Will Livestream The Talk Show Tomorrow)
Zac Hall, 9to5Mac:
Earlier this year, Sandwich Vision introduced its first-ever app
with the debut of Television. The app lets you watch
content on a range of virtual TV sets that you can pin in your
real-world environment through Vision Pro.
Television supports viewing your own video files as well as
content from YouTube. You can even watch Television with friends
synchronously over spatial FaceTime on Apple Vision Pro.
Sometimes, though, you just want to enjoy a film in a proper movie
theater setting. What if you could do that for every movie? Enter
Theater: the new Apple Vision Pro app that transports you
to the perfect venue for movies.
Theater will let you experience the theatrical cinema release
feeling (even if the original Star Wars film isn’t showing at
your local movie chain). Want to watch a movie at the same time
with friends or family who can’t be together in person? Spatial
FaceTime makes that possible in Theater.
You know the immersive theater environments in Apple’s own TV app and Disney’s VisionOS app? Theater is like that, but for any video. It’s like watching YouTube on a 100-foot screen from the best seat in a cinema. I’ve been testing it, and it’s so great. I love it. And:
Sandwich is collaborating with the duo at SpatialGen, Michael Butterfield and Zachary Handshoe. See their expertise on display as they produce the first-ever stereoscopic livestream of The Talk Show Live.
The studio is also collaborating with SpatialGen to livestream
John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live in stereoscopically-captured 3D
video using high-end cameras and lenses. […]
“I started to think ‘what if John’s audience that can’t be at the
California Theater could join us anyway?’ That’s when I pitched
the idea to my co-developer, the genius Andy Roth,” Adam
[Lisagor] says. “He loved it, he found SpatialGen, and I pitched
them the idea. And we had roughly 8 weeks to make this happen, and
I can’t believe it all came together.”
Live-streaming an event and making it look good in realtime is
hard enough. But doing it in 3D video? That’s new territory,
especially considering Apple Vision Pro was just previewed at last
year’s WWDC and launched in the United States in February.
“Gruber was fascinated by the idea but a little skeptical it
could work — it just seemed too ambitious,” Lisagor adds. “The
world’s first livestreamed 3D video event? In an immersive
theater environment? Admittedly seems like a pipe dream. But
nope, it’s real.”
To be clear, the exclusive way to watch the livestream will be through Theater on Vision Pro. Murphy’s Law willing, it should be pretty cool.
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Zac Hall, 9to5Mac:
Earlier this year, Sandwich Vision introduced its first-ever app
with the debut of Television. The app lets you watch
content on a range of virtual TV sets that you can pin in your
real-world environment through Vision Pro.
Television supports viewing your own video files as well as
content from YouTube. You can even watch Television with friends
synchronously over spatial FaceTime on Apple Vision Pro.
Sometimes, though, you just want to enjoy a film in a proper movie
theater setting. What if you could do that for every movie? Enter
Theater: the new Apple Vision Pro app that transports you
to the perfect venue for movies.
Theater will let you experience the theatrical cinema release
feeling (even if the original Star Wars film isn’t showing at
your local movie chain). Want to watch a movie at the same time
with friends or family who can’t be together in person? Spatial
FaceTime makes that possible in Theater.
You know the immersive theater environments in Apple’s own TV app and Disney’s VisionOS app? Theater is like that, but for any video. It’s like watching YouTube on a 100-foot screen from the best seat in a cinema. I’ve been testing it, and it’s so great. I love it. And:
Sandwich is collaborating with the duo at SpatialGen, Michael Butterfield and Zachary Handshoe. See their expertise on display as they produce the first-ever stereoscopic livestream of The Talk Show Live.
The studio is also collaborating with SpatialGen to livestream
John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live in stereoscopically-captured 3D
video using high-end cameras and lenses. […]
“I started to think ‘what if John’s audience that can’t be at the
California Theater could join us anyway?’ That’s when I pitched
the idea to my co-developer, the genius Andy Roth,” Adam
[Lisagor] says. “He loved it, he found SpatialGen, and I pitched
them the idea. And we had roughly 8 weeks to make this happen, and
I can’t believe it all came together.”
Live-streaming an event and making it look good in realtime is
hard enough. But doing it in 3D video? That’s new territory,
especially considering Apple Vision Pro was just previewed at last
year’s WWDC and launched in the United States in February.
“Gruber was fascinated by the idea but a little skeptical it
could work — it just seemed too ambitious,” Lisagor adds. “The
world’s first livestreamed 3D video event? In an immersive
theater environment? Admittedly seems like a pipe dream. But
nope, it’s real.”
To be clear, the exclusive way to watch the livestream will be through Theater on Vision Pro. Murphy’s Law willing, it should be pretty cool.