I’d be very interested in having Apple Cinema Environment deployed across all third party apps (I.e Disney+, HBO Max, etc). These already have their immersive environments as well as the option to use Apple’s immersive environments (i.e the Moon). However the Apple Cinema / Theater is the best implementation I’ve seen thus far however its currently limited to the AppleTV content. Are there any plans to deploy this across other apps?
Apple Cinema Environment
Hi @RC1016
Two ways to read your question, so I'll cover both.
If you're asking as a Vision Pro owner, hoping Apple makes the theater environment available to other video apps: that's a feature request rather than a developer question. Please file it through Feedback Assistant so it reaches the right team.
If you're asking as a developer who wants a theater-style environment in your own app: the Apple TV app's environment isn't exposed by any API, and an enhancement request via Feedback Assistant is the best way to ask for that. In the meantime you can build your own. You can create a custom environment, dock the video screen with DockingRegionComponent, add video reflections, and list your environment alongside the system ones with immersiveEnvironmentPicker(content:).
- Building an immersive media viewing experience walks through all of it.
- Destination Video is the sample code for it.