Blackmagic’s Vision Pro camera is available for pre-order and costs $30,000

Watch videos on It’s one of the few use cases that early adopters of VR headsets have found, but Apple has only produced a handful of immersive videos for you to watch. Blackmagic’s new camera can change that. the It’s the first camera that can shoot in Apple’s Immersive Video format, and it’s available for pre-order now for $29,995 and shipping in “late Q1 2025.”

Blackmagic She was working on hardware and software to produce Vision Pro content in . As promised at the time, the camera is capable of capturing 3D footage at a rate of 90 frames per second, with a resolution of 8160 x 7200 for each eye. Blackmagic says the URSA Cine Immersive uses custom lenses “designed for the URSA Cine’s large format image sensor with highly accurate positional data.” It also has 8TB of built-in network storage, which the company says “records directly to the included Blackmagic Media Module” and can be synced directly to a DaVinci Resolve media box for editors to access footage remotely.

Along with URSA Cine Immersive, Blackmagic is also updating DaVinci Resolve Studio to work with Apple’s Immersive video format, and includes new tools so editors can pan, tilt, and rotate footage while editing on a 2D monitor or in Vision Pro.

The whole package seems expensive at around $30,000, but you get a lot more out of the box than you normally would with one of Blackmagic’s cameras. A regular 12K URSA Cine Camera costs around $15,000, but doesn’t include lenses or built-in storage. These come standard on the URSA Cine Immersive.

Apple has shot many short documentaries, sports clips, and in immersive video format, but it has not released its own camera to third-party production companies to produce content. And while any or They can capture 3D spatial videos, but they cannot produce immersive video, which has a 180-degree field of view. The Blackmagic Camera should enable more immersive content creation for the Vision Pro and other virtual reality headsets. Now Apple just needs to create a Vision product that more people are willing to pay for.

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