SHARING SPATIAL VIDEOS
On Memorial Day a friend attended an Ethiopian children’s birthday party and videoed it on his iPhone 15Pro in spatial video. He texted two videos to me for my response.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/01cnFkAo_mPYaz-UiP4MHHCKw
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f8uihUSbjR-TUI2Wu8IYW-JA
This is exactly the kind of thing that spatial video does best because it can capture the presence of people by being 3D. I am sure the video looked really good when he saw it on his iPad or even his TV screen but the feeling that it gave him when he saw it on his flat screen was different from the feeling I had when I looked at it on the Vision Pro. I didn’t see a movie, I was right there at the party with the parents and other onlookers all with their cellphone cameras out. I was five feet away and rubbing shoulders with the parents. I was right there with ten smiling and animated Ethiopian children, all dressed up with the 9 year old birthday girl, right behind a large cake. I could have blown a kiss or shouted happy birthday. It was marvelous.
I also learned something about spatial videos. They don’t have to be absolutely sharp with no jitteriness in the video to be affective. My eyes, or maybe my processing brain, doesn’t care about technical perfection. It ignores the technical issues and somehow compensates. As a human I am programmed to tune into other humans, particularly children when they are laughing. I ignore the rest.
The second thing I learned was that this is the way to share spatial videos. Apple won’t let someone looking at my post yesterday of the Gott family making music on the porch and see it in spatial form through their Vision Pro from the website. But I could send the same video by email or text and they could see it in 3D on the Vision Pro.
So anyone with a iPhone 15Pro could send photographs of loved ones, particularly children, to family members, which used to be one of the major subjects of FaceBook, and family members could delight in the children’s presence if they have a Vision Pro.
Right now, only I am passionate enough about doing this to have bought an expensive Vision Pro. Right now people can only share spatial videos with me from a distance and I can tell them how good they look. Or if they live nearby they can send me a bunch of spatial videos of people they care about and I can come over to their house and put the Vision Pro goggles on their head and they can sit in the presence of their family and feel good. Invite me and I will come.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 