Apple has introduced a collection of “groundbreaking leisure experiences” that will likely be out there on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional starting Friday, February 2.
With extra pixels than a 4K TV for every eye, mixed with a complicated Spatial Audio system, Imaginative and prescient Professional permits customers to observe new reveals and movies from streaming providers together with Apple Originals from Apple TV+, transport themselves to landscapes with Environments, and revel in all-new spatial experiences that have been by no means potential earlier than, like Encounter Dinosaurs.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional options dual-driver audio pods that ship Personalised Spatial Audio to every ear with assist for Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio.
“Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is the last word leisure machine,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising and marketing says within the press launch. “Customers can flip anyplace into one of the best seat in the home, get pleasure from private live shows and adventures with Apple Immersive Video, work together with lifelike prehistoric creatures in Encounter Dinosaurs, and even land on the floor of the moon utilizing Environments. It’s in contrast to something customers have ever seen earlier than and we will’t look forward to them to expertise it for themselves.”
“At Disney, we’re always looking for new methods to entertain, inform, and encourage by combining distinctive creativity with groundbreaking expertise to create really outstanding experiences,” mentioned Walt Disney Firm CEO Bob Iger. “Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is a revolutionary platform that can convey our followers nearer to the characters and tales they love whereas immersing them extra deeply in all that Disney has to supply. We’re proud to as soon as once more be partnering with Apple to convey extraordinary new Disney experiences to folks world wide.”
Within the press launch Apple says:
° Customers may remodel their area with Environments: stunning, dynamic vistas with practical soundscapes that may mechanically evolve primarily based on the time of day. Customers can open apps inside Environments, to allow them to stream music, audiobooks, or podcasts as they appear up at a starry evening sky from Yosemite, surf the net from Haleakalā, or settle in for a film throughout a storm on Mount Hood.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can remodel their area with Environments — stunning, dynamic vistas with practical soundscapes that may mechanically evolve primarily based on the time of day.
° With SharePlay, Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can watch TV reveals and flicks, hearken to music on Apple Music, and play video games from the App Retailer and Apple Arcade with customers on different Apple gadgets, together with iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.
° Customers can allow Journey Mode to stabilize visuals to be used on planes, and Visitor Person to share particular apps and experiences with household and pals, akin to Pictures or Safari.
° When a consumer begins watching a video, the lights round them mechanically dim because the content material strikes nearer to them. Movies might be positioned wherever of their area or positioned in an Setting for essentially the most cinematic expertise.
° With Environments, customers can scale movies past the size of their room, so the display feels 100 toes broad, all whereas preserving the body fee and facet ratio. And there’s no want for a distant: Customers merely invoke controls with their eyes, arms, or voice.
° At launch, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can watch greater than 150 3D films from high studios, together with all-time favorites and up to date releases, akin to Avatar: The Manner of Water, Dune, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film.
° Customers can entry 3D variations of eligible films once they develop into out there to hire or buy from the Apple TV app, and customers who personal or buy films with a 3D version will have the ability to entry that model on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional at no extra price.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can watch greater than 150 3D films from the world’s high studios.
° With Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, customers can expertise Apple Immersive Video, a outstanding new leisure format pioneered by Apple. Apple Immersive Video options 180-degree 3D 8K recordings captured with Spatial Audio to move viewers to the middle of a spot, second, or story. At launch, customers can get pleasure from a curated choice of immersive movies and collection on the Apple TV app at no extra price.
The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will likely be out there on Friday, Feb. 2, beginning at US$3,499 with 256GB of storage. ZEISS Optical Inserts will likely be out there: $99 for studying lens and $149 for prescription lens.
Pre-orders will likely be accepted beginning on January 19 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Orders are restricted to the US in the intervening time, and Apple hasn’t offered particulars on when the headset is likely to be out there in different nations.
The Imaginative and prescient Professional comes with a Solo Knit Band and Twin Loop Band — giving customers two choices for the match that works finest for them. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally features a Mild Seal, two Mild Seal Cushions, an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Cowl for the entrance of the machine, Sharpening Fabric, Battery, USB-C Cost Cable, and USB-C Energy Adapter.
