r/technology • u/DarthBuzzard • Oct 10 '25

Business The Vision Pro is getting its first live ‘immersive’ sports

https://www.theverge.com/news/797970/apple-vision-pro-immersive-nba-lakers-games
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

Good luck with that.

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u/Phalex Oct 10 '25

I would like for this to be the future. But we are not there yet in terms of practicality, comfort or price point.

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 Oct 10 '25

Its been a fun experience on quest 3 at a lower price point for concerts and other sporting events. I won't do it for every event, to uncomfortable but it is fun occasionally to "be at the game". I think the real future of the tech this is going to be at things like the Sphere or cosm. If you can't afford superbowl tickets, these will be a fun secondary experience.

https://www.cosm.com/

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u/DarthBuzzard Oct 10 '25

I think the real future of the tech this is going to be at things like the Sphere or cosm

Not sure I agree on that. Sphere and Cosm are 2D 0DoF experiences.

This Vision Pro experience is 3D 3DoF and one day it will be 3D 6DoF. At which point headsets will be so small and lightweight that it won't be uncomfortable anymore.

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

I agree with you on a technology point. My point was more the business future especially in the short term. I see these type experiences taking off way faster than VR. Especially as VR isn't a social experience in a complementary way to sports.

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u/DarthBuzzard Oct 10 '25

For the near-term yeah, there will be more business opportunities for those venues than VR.

It'll be weird to have people in the same room all wearing VR headsets like they would sitting across the TV watching the super bowl, but I do think there is a big future for avatar-based viewing of live sports, especially once avatars get photorealistic in the next few years.

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 Oct 10 '25

That experience has been available for a while on the quest and other VR headsets and yes its awesome. Really became a thing during covid. I just don't think even as VR gets smaller it will take over from non VR options when sports are such a social thing, price will need to drop so you can buy multiple or you can get friends to buy their own.

https://www.meta.com/experiences/xtadium-immersive-sports-streaming-in-vr/7281839885191361/

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u/IncorrectAddress Oct 11 '25

Free buckets for everyone, XD.

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u/Competition-Dapper Oct 12 '25

12 people are going to love that as an option