Apple has been building up its library of media utilizing the Apple Immersive Video format ever since the launch of the Vision Pro early last year. Alongside the announcement of a new spatial audio format, the company has also revealed that it will be making Apple Immersive Video available to creators later this year. The aforementioned Apple Spatial Audio Format (ASAF) will be required for producing Immersive Video content, announced the company.
Along with making the format available to third-party developers and content creators, Apple says it will be doubling down on support for Immersive Video in the upcoming visionOS 26 update.
“In visionOS 2, spatial videos can be played with spatial styling in your own app with the QuickLook PreviewApplication API. In visionOS 26, we’re bringing that same spatial styling to all of Apple’s media playback frameworks,” said Spatial Media Engineer Dave Addey. “We’re adding QLPreviewController support in QuickLook, plus support in AVKit, RealityKit, Safari, and WebKit, enabling you to incorporate spatial videos however you choose in your app, with support for HTTP Live Streaming, or HLS.”
