Adobe is making a visionOS app “powered by Premiere” for natively editing Spatial Video on Apple Vision Pro.

Announced during WWDC25 by Apple, no further details were given, but the company shared a short clip of the upcoming app in action, showing it being used to add text in front of a horse.

Spatial Video is Apple’s term for stereoscopic 3D video using the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format of MV-HEVC. Spatial videos can be captured by all iPhone 16 models, the iPhone 15 Pro models, Apple Vision Pro, and Canon’s EOS R7 camera with its upcoming spatial lens attachment.

Spatial videos can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro, Pico 4 Ultra, Meta Quest headsets via Meta’s phone app, or any VR headset if you convert the file to SBS 3D.

There are already visionOS apps on the App Store for editing spatial videos, such as SpatialCut, so we’ll be curious to see how Adobe’s compares, and whether it integrates with Adobe’s Creative Cloud.

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You can also edit spatial videos on a Mac, using Apple’s Final Cut Pro.

At WWDC25 Apple also announced visionOS 26, set to be the biggest Vision Pro software update yet, and you can read all about it in our article:

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Will games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage & Resident Evil Village come to Vision Pro later this year?

Apple Vision Pro can theoretically run almost all iPad apps by default, unless developers opt out.

So far, developers of AAA games available on iPad have chosen to opt out, and this may be down to performance limitations. While Vision Pro uses the same M2 chip as iPads that can run these games, the added overhead of visionOS and all its features mean developers have reported that the headset is unable to handle demanding titles.

One issue developers have run into is the lower available memory of visionOS. But in visionOS 26 Apple is increasing the platform’s memory limit, and the company claims this enables “high-end iPad games” on Vision Pro.

However, Apple did not announce any specific “high-end iPad games” newly coming to the platform. We’ll keep an eye out for any arriving later this year, when visionOS 26 actually arrives as a stable release.

For more about visionOS 26, read our article covering the many changes set to arrive in Apple’s biggest Vision Pro software update yet:

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One of the biggest pieces of Vision Pro news from today’s WWDC is that the headset will be getting support for PSVR 2 motion controllers and a Logitech motion stylus with the release of visionOS 26. Now we’re learning more of the details, including the fact that developers will be able to publish Vision Pro apps that ‘require’ motion controllers, and those which make them ‘optional’. The change is a surprising shift compared to the hand-tracking only approach that Apple launched the headset with.

In a recorded developer session released at WWDC 2025, Apple went into more detail about upcoming support for motion controllers on VisionOS 26.

One of the interesting things we learned is that developers will be able to publish Vision Pro apps with an ‘optional’ or ‘required’ motion controller designation. Developers will make this choice, and it will show up in the App Store so users know what to expect.

This of course opens the door to Vision Pro content which works exclusively with motion controllers. While it would be nice if hand-tracking was supported in every single app, the reality is that most existing VR games (ie: on platforms like Quest and PC VR) are built specifically for motion controllers, and would need to be significantly redesigned to support hand-tracking.

In VisionOS 26, Apple will allow developers to publish Vision Pro apps which ‘require’ motion controllers, meaning developers will be able to publish their existing VR content on Vision Pro with significantly less effort than if hand-tracking was required.

When building apps for motion controllers on Vision Pro, developers will be able to choose between two different tracking modes: Predicted and Continuous.

The Predicted mode will offer the lowest apparent latency by estimating where the controller will end up in future frames based on its present movement. This mode will likely be best for games with lots of player motion.

The Continuous mode will offer the highest precision by not estimating future position. This will prevent ‘overshoot’ when a user suddenly changes the direction of the motion controller. However, this will come at the cost of higher apparent latency. This mode will likely be best for apps that want optimal precision, like art and productivity.

Despite talking about these two tracking modes, as far as we know, Apple has yet to share any specific info on how much latency developers can expect when using motion controllers on Vision Pro.

For more on VisionOS 26, check out our overview of major changes here.

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Pickle Pro, from Resolution Games, is the first announced Apple Vision Pro game to use the PS VR2 Sense controllers.

If you missed the news, earlier today Apple announced and released the first developer beta of visionOS 26, which includes support for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers.

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Resolution Games is a veteran XR studio behind dozens of top titles across all major headsets. Apple contracted the studio to build Game Room for Vision Pro’s launch and the Gears & Goo tower defense game that released earlier this year, both on its Apple Arcade subscription service. Resolution has also ported its flagship cross-platform title Demeo to visionOS.

The studio’s next Vision Pro game is called Pickle Pro, and it’s the first visionOS title to announce support for PS VR2 Sense controllers.

Resolution says Pickle Pro is “the ultimate pickleball training and competition app”, with “hyper-real physics”.

The announcement comes just over three months after Resolution added pickleball to its cross-platform VR/MR game Racket Club, and the studio says Pickle Pro will use the same physics engine.

Further, it says Pickle Pro’s bots are trained on thousands of hours of gameplay data from Racket Club, using machine learning to make them “smarter, more realistic, and more challenging with every match”.

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There’s no release date yet for Pickle Pro, but visionOS 26 is set to arrive later this year.

Soon, Apple Vision Pro owners will be playing games using officially supported tracked controllers in their hands from Sony.

The controllers, of course, will be sold separately, as Apple was sure to note in its WWDC 2025 press announcement. The feature is coming to visionOS 26, set to arrive roughly one and a half years after the headset launched.

Though still gated for now behind a $3500 entry fee for the headset itself, as well as getting your hands on the additional hardware, direct support for PlayStation VR2’s controllers opens up a relatively straightforward path for porting the work of numerous VR developers from the default input system on Quest, PC VR, and both generations of PlayStation VR system. At least, it’s likely going to be a more direct path than building for a gaze and pinch hand tracking only interface.

Until now, most VR game developers have considered building for Apple’s platform a non-starter. That’s because of the combination of few players and the absence of both the haptics and low latency tracking provided by controllers like these. PlayStation VR2’s controllers feature resistive triggers and advanced haptics developers could use with Sony’s controllers for the first time in standalone VR, though we haven’t identified yet whether those features are supported yet. Still, many developers will be put off by the limited player base on Apple headsets, of course. Some, though, will see this as a major indication Apple is looking to create a real market here for future games in VR and mixed reality. Overall, direct integration of Sony’s tracked controllers starts to change the game for Apple and prospective creators.

I recently tested Ping Ping Club on Apple Vision Pro and found a game that works as well as it can with hand tracking. Unfortunately, the title falls apart the moment you try to get competitive, and that happens because current generation hand tracking is still pretty limited. Third party manufacturers have rolled their own version of the open source ALVR software for PC VR streaming, thus enabling players to use the Surreal Touch controllers for PC VR games. This essentially offers a route to play a top-tier competitive game like ElevenVR streaming from a nearby PC.

A small number of highly skilled development groups like Resolution Games, Schell Games and Triband have been able to secure development agreements on Apple devices for exclusive titles featuring the company’s breakthrough gaze-and-pinch interface. In fact, Resolution just announced it would be making Pickle Pro for “training and competition” in pickleball on Apple Vision Pro with compatibility for the PlayStation VR2 controllers.

“Thanks to our shared physics engine and the deep data pool from our award-winning game Racket Club, Pickle Pro is shaping up to be the most authentic pickleball simulator and training app out there,” Resolution Games’ Tommy Palm said in a prepared statement. “All our bots are trained on real gameplay data—from beginners to pros—making them smarter, more realistic, and more challenging with every match. Without the thousands of hours players have put into Racket Club, the machine learning bots in Pickle Pro simply wouldn’t be possible. We’re very excited about the potential here.”

A Resolution representative declined to say whether other controller-dependent games in their library would be making the jump to Vision Pro.

Vision Pro owners, meanwhile, have used the brute force of open source to connect their PC VR games to Vision Pro. On the outside looking in, many developers with limited time to focus on different platforms, as well as cash-strapped potential buyers, await Valve’s entry to the standalone VR market, even as Meta forges ahead making big budget home-grown titles for Quest headsets like Batman: Arkham Shadow and Deadpool VR. None of these trends change because Apple suddenly supports an official tracked controller solution, but it does start to change what could be on the horizon.

I reached out to one of the developers of ElevenVR to ask them about the new Apple feature and whether it changes how they approach multi-platform development.

“We’d love to be on every device possible but there is a huge consideration to effort and time and people it can reach – which is why we aren’t on every headset possible, ” the developer explained over direct message. “If there is a hardware combo that can support the game we’d love to be on it if we have enough time to prioritize it and it makes sense to do so…as each additional platform takes away from others.”

The developer pointed out players have already requested a version of the game installable on phones so they can be used as a spectating camera. The dev says there’s no timeline for release of a spectator camera for iPhone, and was 100 percent clear that there’s no guarantee they’ll be bringing their work to iPhone or Apple Vision Pro. As the developer points out, it’s believed Sony sold more PlayStation VR2 headsets, which come bundled with the controllers, than Apple has shipped Vision Pro devices, none of which have controllers included in the box.

We’re reaching out to developers to see whether Apple’s latest feature changes any of their plans and we’d love to see some discussion in the comments below digging into the considerations at hand.

Overall, what does the VR market look like in about a year to a year and a half? Come Christmas 2026, what options do people have to buy headsets and what games will be available for them? And what will be the dominant input method on those devices?

It’ll take time to have an effect, but a lot of developers are about to realize the VR landscape has changed in a pretty dramatic way.

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