Both Apple pundits and most of the internet seem to agree that Vision Pro is the best way to watch baseball, following the immersive experience offered by Apple’s Friday Night Baseball .
Notably, there also seemed to be a consensus view that less is more when it comes to the various immersive camera angles … I’ve never had a desire to buy a Vision Pro . But Friday Night Baseball in Apple Immersive changed my perspective. Others agreed with him. Each half inning was shown from a single camera on the dugout rail next to the on-deck circle, giving a great view of pitcher and hitter and the infield, as well as the goings on right in front of the dugout in foul territory. The camera switched between innings, so you were always viewing from the perspective of the at-bat team’s dugout. It was easy to look up and catch a replay or even get a better view of something happening in the far-off outfield, without getting in the way of my view of the game itself.
Even if I had $4,000 to blow at the Apple Store, I’d probably pick up a loaded MacBook Pro or a Mac mini with a Studio Display XDR instead of Apple’s cutting-edge handset. The first-ever broadcast of a live Major League Baseball game with 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view, watching the Red Sox-Yankees game on the Vision Pro was almost as breathtaking as being at Yankee Stadium.
He said one change Apple made over its basketball footage was not cutting between lots of different camera angles, and he fully approved. Making it all work better was Apple’s addition of a “virtual jumbotron” floating in the sky, a scoreboard with graphics and a video feed of the standard 16:9 telecast on Apple TV.
