SPATIAL VIDEO: MY PORN PROBLEM
Today I finally figured out that porn is causing me trouble. For over a month I have been putting spatial videos on my daily posts. These spatial videos look great on a flat screen because when someone clicks on the link to the video on my website they are only able to see one half of the spatial video, the half that is in higher resolution. These videos are very clear. But I’ve assumed all along that when someone else besides me gets the Vision Pro they will see these spatial movies in a completely immersive way, in glorious 3D. Of course no one has a Vision Pro because it seems nuts to pay $3500 for a wonky new device on which you can only look at video games.
But I can assure you, I am not nuts. The Vision Pro turns out to be a pretty magical device. I’ve sat here with a white sand desert stretching all around me and in front of me have watched/listened to a marvelous concert of Beethoven Sonatas on Arte, European public television, by someone named Igor Levit who not only plays the piano beautifully but who is only 4 feet in front of me on a huge screen. Sometimes I see him from the side, sometimes from six feet above so that I can see his fingers hitting every key with the sound over my Earpods filling the room. And if I twist a knob just slightly I can lift the desert slightly and below the concert see my virtual hands typing on my virtual iPad, which I see in perfect 3D video virtual form while I feel the keys and hear the tapping. It is not only magic, it a most marvelous way to hear/see a concert. I’m not nuts. The Vision Pro is worth every penny to an old man sitting in a rental room by himself surrounded by beautiful views and wonderful music.
But my reason for buying the Vision Pro was to be able to share the spatial movies I have been making for a couple of of Sri Lanka, India, France and Germany. So on Tuesday it occurred to me to try looking at my own website with the Vision Pro. The first spatial movie I looked at looked grainy and fuzzy, terrible, not nearly as good as the flat screen version on my iPad.
Had Apple tricked me? Was no one going to be able to share the videos of their grandkids birthday party on their website? After all the link led directly to my iCloud and on my iCloud when I look at the spatial videos on my Vision Pro they look great. Why was Apple not letting me share the spatial video in 3D form of the little girls dancing in Sri Lanka of which I was so proud? Finally I guessed that I was probably seeing a flat screen version of the video through a 3D device with each eye seeing something different and making the video fuzzy.
I was baffled so started searching the web to find the root of my problem. What I found was a lot of complaints from people who had bought the Vision Pro to be able to watch vivid, realistic 3D porn and who were frustrated that they were blocked. No one was able to share Apple Vision ready 3D porn.
And then finally, as Kathe would say, the penny dropped. My hunch is that Apple doesn’t want the Vision Pro to be known as the ideal place where you can watch first rate 3D porn. And the way they prevent it is by somehow making it impossible to put shareable 3D porn on a website. But no 3D porn on a porn website also means no shared on a website spatial videos of diminutive dancers in Sri Lanka, no shared on a website birthday parties of the grandkids which is one of the videos in the Apple demonstration when you try out the Apple Vision Pro at the Apple Store. In the demonstration were the grandkids in glorious spatial video blowing out the candles on a cake that so impressed me.
But it does turn out that you can share Apple Vision ready spatial videos of the little girls dancing and birthday parties. You can share through an email connection or a text connection. I tried sending my self the videos and it works. Just no website connection such as Billybaba.com, not that it matters that much since no one has a Vision Pro except me.
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