Apple has announced that the new iPhone 16 is getting a little more spatial with the addition of both spatial photos and audio, essentially bringing it in line with the shooting capabilities of the Vision Pro.
There were no major updates for the Vision Pro at the company's big event on Monday, but the company did announce a number of products, including the AI-powered iPhone 16 series, as well as the brand new Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4.
The iPhone 16 introduces a new pill-shaped camera design, improved AI features, and a few new buttons (Action and Camera Control) over the iPhone 15. It keeps the same 60Hz display (120Hz on the iPhone 16 Pro), and overall the improvements are pretty incremental.
But the entire iPhone 16 series comes with the ability to shoot not just spatial video like the iPhone 15 Pro, but also spatial photos and audio. The Vision Pro can do all of that, but you'll have a hard time fitting it in your pocket.
No matter what phone you have, if you have a Vision Pro, all your photos can be spatialized thanks to an update that arrived earlier this summer. This update automatically converts 2D photos to 3D, and it does it quite convincingly.
It is also stated that spatial videos can be watched on other XR devices that support the MV-HVEC video codec, such as Meta Quest.