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Archives for April 2024

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Apple’s next immersive video is another Prehistoric Planet episode.

The second episode of Prehistoric Planet Immersive will be available on April 19th, according to the Apple TV Plus page for the series.

The first episode was a pretty demonstration of the Vision Pro, rather than the David Attenborough-narrated, pretend nature documentary that Prehistoric Planet is. But the younger version of me that saw Jurassic Park and Prehysteria in theaters welcomes it, anyway.

A screenshot of the episode page for Triceratops Forest.
I’m ready for that immersive triceratops.
Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Experience the glamor of managing a laundromat with Arcade Paradise VR.

The Meta Quest game, which is $19.99 and available to preorder, puts you in charge of stuff like scrubbing toilets and plucking chewed gum in a 1993 laundromat. Yum!

The goal is to transform it into a fully-fledged arcade. Based on my childhood obsession with games and how awful I was at them, this laundromat would have been a very expensive three hours of my mom’s Saturday.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Do I feel less lonely in the Vision Pro?

That’s what I kept asking myself when testing out spatial Personas with Wes. The short of it is your ghostly Personas are now free to interact in any SharePlay enabled app, so you can watch movies, play games, and collaborate on projects. It’s neat — and you can interact more with other people. But seeing Wes’ head just float in my office also reminded me he really wasn’t there.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Meta’s been tinkering with mixed reality for 10 years now.

This video is a fun speedrun through all the VR headsets and AR glasses that Meta’s been tinkering with over the last decade. There’s a mention of Project Aria, and you even get a glimpse of some experimental smartwatch like controls. It’s a neat highlight reel, but I did chortle at how fast the video glosses over Ray-Ban Stories.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Robots, virtually in disguise.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is now available in 3D on the Vision Pro Apple TV Plus app, joining free-for-subscribers films that Apple added to its streaming service in March.

New, but not in 3D, are several other movies that probably should be — including the first three John Wick films, Armageddon, Taken, and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol. The new crop of movies is available for between four and eight weeks, reports MacRumors.

A gif of the movies that are new to Apple TV Plus for April.
Scrolling the new movies.
Screen recording: Wes Davis / The Verge