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A 3-D pocket cam

In iOS 17.2, in the Settings menu, you can turn on spatial video capture. (It will be off by default.) Then, in the Camera app, you hit the little headset icon, then the record button and you’re capturing spatial video.

The iPhone 15 Pro’s ultrawide and wide cameras basically function like a stereoscopic recording system. It records two streams of 1080p video to mimic the perspective from our two eyes. (Yes, that means the file size will get big.) In fact, you have to hold the phone horizontally when recording for this to work. When you watch it back in the headset, each eye sees one stream, and your brain merges them for that 3-D feel.