Apple announced that Spectrum SportsNet will stream a selection of Los Angeles Lakers matchups in Apple Immersive to Apple Vision Pro users during the 2025–26 NBA season, with the first game expected by early next year and a full schedule to be revealed this fall.
The company confirmed that the Lakers will be available in the company’s 3D, spatial Apple Immersive format on Vision Pro, delivered through both a forthcoming Spectrum SportsNet app for Vision Pro and the NBA app. Live broadcasts will be available to fans inside the Lakers’ regional territory, with replays and highlights coming to select countries and regions via both apps.
These live immersive games will be captured using Blackmagic Design’s URSA Cine Immersive Live camera — a purpose-built system designed to shoot stereoscopic 3D Apple Immersive Video at very high resolutions and frame rates. That hardware is what makes the “courtside” feeling possible: two synchronized sensors record slightly different viewpoints (one per eye) so Vision Pro can reconstruct a convincing depth experience.
Apple’s push to bring live sports into Apple Immersive is a step beyond pre-recorded films and music releases: live sports expose Vision Pro to a mass audience who care about real-time events, not just studio-driven experiences. For Apple, it’s both a content differentiator and a real-world test of whether high-bandwidth, low-latency immersive streaming can work at scale. For fans, it promises new perspectives — think courtside angles and spatial audio that place you inside the arena rather than in a flat broadcast.
This is the clearest signal yet that Apple wants Vision Pro to be more than a niche device for films and demos — it’s aiming for live, appointment-based entertainment. If Apple and its partners can keep latency, regional rights, and subscription friction manageable, immersive live sports could be one of the biggest use cases for spatial computing yet.
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