The Apple Vision Pro Will Soon Be Able to Turn Your Photos Into Immersive Environments

**TL;DR:** The Apple Vision Pro Will Soon Be Able to Turn Your Photos Into Immersive Environments

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At WWDC today, Apple announced a new feature for its Apple Vision Pro VR/AR headsets: Users will soon be able to create their own environments from panoramic photos they take. The company also teased greater immersion for spatial photos. Both improvements are coming this fall. Apple Vision Pro's environments—immersive, detailed 3D backdrops that can be toggled on and off from inside the Vision Pro—is one of the stand-out features on the headset.

You can control the immersion level like you would a dimmer switch on a light, letting you blend reality and virtuality as you see fit, and you can use your cool-but-uncanny Vision avatar in chats with other Vision Pro users in shared environments. Presumably, all these features will be available in user-created environments. But environments "work" because they're more than photographic backdrops. They're vision-encompassing 3D scenes that feature sound elements, too.

Apple didn't offer specific details, but it seems that transforming panoramic photos into immersive environments goes hand-in-hand with Apple improving its spatial photos. Transforming snapshots into 3D pics is already a Vision Pro feature, but they're limited. Th

Source: Lifehacker

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