Mike Swanson
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Technologist, immersive/spatial video enthusiast, iOS award-winning app developer, and former Microsoft employee of 12 years (among many other geeky things).
Sammamish, Washington
Joined March 2008
Resolution limit of the eye — how many pixels can we see?
nature.com
Nature Communications - This work determines the maximum display resolution that the human eye can discriminate. The limit was determined for achromatic and chromatic vision, for both the fovea and...
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Tomorrow is Apple's deep dive into their immersive media formats and production workflows. Watch live on YouTube:
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The Apple Immersive Media event livestreams for Day 1 (tomorrow/Tuesday) and Day 2 (Wednesday) will be available to watch on the Apple Developer YouTube channel: Day 1: https://t.co/EJDJLxOjCC Day 2:
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Breaking: Live immersive sports are coming to Apple Vision Pro!! 🏀 Select Lakers games will stream in Apple Immersive Video this season, with the first game early next year via the NBA app. Live games, replays, and highlights in full immersion. Be courtside from your couch.
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Apple is hosting an upcoming event at the Cupertino Developer Center from October 21–23 on creating immersive media experiences for visionOS. Attend in-person or online:
developer.apple.com
Join us around the world for a variety of sessions, labs, and workshops — tailored for you.
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New Apple Immersive Video “Maine” is now available on Apple Vision Pro. This is Chapter 2 of the Elevated series.
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Insightful Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive Roundtable Discussion with @alexlindsay, Brenton Henry, Chris Petracco, and @grantlyw: https://t.co/354ec2lPmV Great job, guys!
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More Apple Immersive news from @justinryanio.
Apple just previewed new Apple Immersive films coming to Vision Pro! We are getting World of Red Bull, Experience Paris, CORTIS from HYBE, CNN’s Journey to Antarctica, A Night at the BBC Proms, Julaymba, plus new episodes of Wild Life and Elevated. More info in the link below
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Heads-up! Apple released its latest Immersive video, MotoGP Tour De Force, a 30-minute documentary that follows rider Johann Zarco during the French Grand Prix at Le Mans this year. https://t.co/ocrabMBYao
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We’ve just released Amplium V2! It supports 7200×7200 resolution per eye. This time, the footage was shot in low light, but under better conditions we believe we can deliver even higher quality. We’d love to hear your feedback — both what you enjoyed and what we could improve!
Introducing Amplium V2 - Plays Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive at full native capture resolution, 8K per eye at 90 fps in HDR - No downscaling to 4K per eye - Experience the highest quality immersive video More content shot on the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive is coming soon.
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Great job!
Live Apple Immersive Video (AIV) is running internally at SpatialGen. Real-time encoding at 90 fps from a 16K ingest. Demos coming in the next few days. In the meantime, this is what the immersive controls look like in AVPlayer for live AIV:
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ExplorePOV has quickly become one of my favorite Vision Pro apps. The first Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive footage from French Polynesia is stunning and makes you feel like you are there. They have a massive library and Premium is on sale right now. Not sponsored, just a fan.
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The 4th episode of "Wild Life" for Apple Vision Pro, titled "Orangutans," is now streaming: https://t.co/0cRPrpbz9H
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Blackmagic just released DaVinci Resolve 20.1 and it’s a big update for Vision Pro! You can edit, grade, add VFX, mix spatial audio, and deliver Apple Immersive Video. A new viewer lets you directly stream to Vision Pro for a more immersive editing experience! Available now.
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YouTube preview: https://t.co/du0nzxxLdv After a week of handworks — we’ve wrapped the world’s first independent Immersive Film captured on the brand-new Blackmagic Design URSA Cine Immersive. The result is a 13-minute travel piece, mastered at 8K per eye, 90 fps HDR and packaged
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Andrew Gisch, co-founder of The Immersive Company, talking about the camera they’re releasing this year:
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I had the incredible opportunity to work with MacGillivray Freeman Films, legends in IMAX filmmaking, to bring their stunning documentaries to Apple Vision Pro. From stereo video and spatial audio pipelines to color fidelity, performance, and streaming, we custom-built
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Many of my favorite IMAX movies now on Vision Pro. Outstanding!
Epic Earth is out now on Vision Pro. The detail and artistry in every frame is simply breathtaking. Huge respect to the team behind it.
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Anthony Maës posted a great overview of spatial and immersive technical announcements from WWDC25 along with updates to his OpenImmersive 1.4 project:
medium.com
Apple announced many updates to Immersive Video. This is an in-depth review of those changes, and some OpenImmersive updates.
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