Google Photos prepares for Android XR spatial video support (APK teardown)

3D video has been around for decades, and over that lengthy lifespan it’s taken a lot of different forms, from those early red/blue anaglyph films to immersive side-by-side videos you might view with a VR headset (or Google Cardboard back in the day). With the Vision Pro, Apple supports what it calls spatial video, that not just stores depth information in a clever, space-saving way, but also makes it easier to do backwards compatibility with 2D screens.

As we look forward to Google’s Android XR smart glasses and Samsung’s Project Moohan, Google’s already getting Android apps ready to handle spatial video themselves.