{"id":251406,"date":"2024-08-05T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/nat-geos-first-vision-pro-immersive-environment-takes-you-to-iceland\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:07","slug":"nat-geos-first-vision-pro-immersive-environment-takes-you-to-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/nat-geos-first-vision-pro-immersive-environment-takes-you-to-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Geo&#8217;s first Vision Pro immersive environment takes you to Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>National Geographic is no stranger to new media. The network has produced a slew of <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-04-26-national-geographic-oculus-quest-vr.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:immersive virtual reality experiences,;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">immersive virtual reality experiences,<\/a> <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLivjPDlt6ApRq22sn082ZCC9893XtV8xc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:360 degree videos;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">360 degree videos<\/a>, and even <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-03-14-one-strange-rock-space-helmets.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:its own &quot;Space Projection Helmets&quot;;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">its own &#8220;Space Projection Helmets&#8221;<\/a> for its big-budget show <em>One Strange Rock<\/em>. Today, it&#8217;s finally delivering its first immersive experience for the Apple Vision Pro: A Disney+ environment featuring Iceland&#8217;s Thingvellir National Park. Now you can sit back and watch <em>The Avengers<\/em> in 3D amid pristine white snow, towering rock formations and a clear blue sky (or a star-filled on at night). Alongside that film, Disney+ is also adding 3D versions of <em>The<\/em> <em>Age of Ultron <\/em>and the first two<em> Ant-Man<\/em> movies today.<\/p>\n<p>While standing in the middle of a snow-filled park isn&#8217;t as adventurous as, say, rowing a kayak through Arctic waters in VR, the environment shows that Nat Geo isn&#8217;t completely ignoring the Vision Pro. Apple&#8217;s headset has sorely lacked truly immersive experiences, outside of the &#8220;Encounter Dinosaurs&#8221; demo it shipped with, as well as <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/marvels-what-if-for-apple-vision-pro-looks-incredible-but-plays-terribly-143028639.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Marvel's What If...?;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Marvel&#8217;s What If&#8230;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not holding my breath for a big-budget National Geographic experience only meant for the Vision Pro, but it&#8217;s not out of the realm of possibility. Nat Geo could reconfigure some of its existing VR projects to work on the Vision Pro, or even adapt <em>One Strange Rock&#8217;s <\/em>unique helmet projection view. (I&#8217;d bet money only very few people ever saw the footage in that form.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ar-vr\/nat-geos-first-vision-pro-immersive-environment-takes-you-to-iceland-190036673.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] National Geographic is no stranger to new media. The network has produced a slew of immersive virtual reality experiences, 360 degree videos, and even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}