Choose LA Lakers NBA video games can be streamed in Apple Immersive to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners subsequent 12 months, the first-ever reside content material for the format.
The choose 2025-26 season video games can be captured by way of Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive Stay, a particular variant of the Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive digital camera, which is about to go on sale subsequent 12 months.
“Imaginative and prescient Professional customers will have the ability to really feel the depth of every sport as in the event that they have been courtside, with views which can be unimaginable to seize in conventional broadcasts.”
The 3D 180-degree footage can be streamed reside at as much as 150 Mbps to the NBA app and the upcoming Spectrum SportsNet app.
What Is Apple Immersive Video?
The Apple Immersive Video format is 180° stereoscopic 3D video with 4K per-eye decision, 90FPS, excessive dynamic vary (HDR), and spatial audio. It is sometimes served with greater bitrate than many different immersive video platforms.
We extremely praised Apple Immersive Video in our Imaginative and prescient Professional evaluation. It isn’t potential to forged or file Apple Immersive Video although, so you may need to take our phrase for it except you’ve entry to a Imaginative and prescient Professional.
For the NBA app you may simply want an NBA ID, which is free, whereas for the Spectrum SportsNet app you may want Spectrum broadband or Spectrum SportsNet subscription.
Precisely which “choose” video games can be streamed can be revealed “later this fall”.
52 NBA Video games This Season Will Once more Be Streamed In 180-Levels To Quest For Free
For the fourth 12 months in a row, 52 NBA video games this season can be streamed in 180-degrees to Quest headsets within the US totally free.
Meta and Xtadium have been streaming 52 NBA video games per season to Quest homeowners in 2D 180-degree totally free for years now, and streamed the 2025 NBA All-Star Sport earlier this 12 months too. It even enables you to cowatch with mates, which is not at present potential with Apple Immersive.
However Apple’s addition of 3D ought to make it really feel far more like actually being courtside than Meta’s 2D, and the excessive streaming bitrate ought to make for a extra nice viewing expertise.
The announcement comes virtually 9 years after NextVR began streaming weekly NBA video games to the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR headset in 180-degree. In 2020 Apple acquired NextVR, and leveraged its experience and IP to develop Apple Immersive Video.
Lastly, the unique dream of NextVR can be delivered with enough decision and bitrate to make it actually compelling.
