Spatial

Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties

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As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records are pushing back against Apple’s preferential payouts for spatial audio. They say independent artists who can’t afford to record in spatial audio would make less because of how streaming music payouts work. Apple said artists on Apple Music can … Read more

Meta’s Quest headsets add spatial video and pinch controls to compete with Vision Pro

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The Meta Quest 3 will soon give wearers the ability to easily view spatial videos as well as use new pinching gestures for control, features that are similar to what you’ll find in Apple’s much more expensive Vision Pro headset that launches this week. Both changes are starting to roll out gradually as part of … Read more

Apple tells artists how much more money they can make with spatial audio

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Artists on Apple Music will earn a bonus payout of up to 10 percent in royalties for all songs that are also available in spatial audio. That’s according to an update sent to record label partners and seen by 9to5Mac. Quoted by Music Business Worldwide, it says that starting with January’s month-end payout, “pro-rata shares … Read more

I demoed Xreal’s AR glasses for spatial computing and they’re better than I expected

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June Wan/ZDNET AR glasses took off in 2023, but even a tech geek like myself, who’s initially typed the news portion of this article while wearing a pair during my flight to CES admits that the product category needs to be better. Because no matter which pair you buy on the market right now, they … Read more

The iPhone 15 Pro can now capture spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro

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Jason Hiner/ZDNET iPhone 15 Pro users can now set up their video capture to record spatial video for Apple Vision Pro thanks to a new iOS 17.2 beta update released today. The feature will eventually be available to all iPhone 15 Pro users once iOS 17.2 is out of beta.  Spatial video wowed viewers during … Read more

iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max Arms-On: Titanium Body, 5x Zoom Digital camera and Spatial Video

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The iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max made their debut at Apple’s annual fall occasion on Tuesday. From the second I picked them up in a hands-on space contained in the Steve Jobs Theater, I may inform there have been some vital refinements in contrast with earlier Professional fashions. The iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max are … Read more