Subj : I visited Bikini Bottom on the Apple Vision Pro, caught jellyfish To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 14:15:05 I visited Bikini Bottom on the Apple Vision Pro, caught jellyfish, and watched one of the best Paramount Plus shows with SpongeBob Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:02:02 +0000 Description: You can now fully immerse yourself in one of Paramount Plus' best shows SpongeBob SquarePants in a new Apple Vision Pro experience. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Make no mistake about it Im a fan of how the Apple Vision Pro can transport you elsewhere, specifically through the deeply immersive and sometimes fantastical virtual environments you can drop into. Apple has its own set baked into VisionOS, with more arriving in VisionOS 2 later in 2024, but third-party applications have their own as well. I spent the weekend exclusively under the sea previewing a new one from Paramount Plus , and folks, as a SpongeBob SquarePants fan, its pretty darn cool. To celebrate 25 years of SpongeBob SquarePants, Paramount Plus and the team at Nickelodeon are debuting a 'Bikini Bottom' environment for the Apple Vision Pro. Itll transport you to Conch Street to see the famous pineapple under the sea, Patricks rock, and Squidward's humble abode. But the real fun starts when you realize its not just a visual treat it's interactive, too. You can look around and open doors or rather the lid for Patrick to hear sound bites, making the experience truly engaging. Explore Bikini Bottom and catch jellyfish (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) On the Apple Vision Pro , to explore Bikini Bottom, youll simply need to download Paramount Plus and sign in; from there, youll open the mountains icon for environments on the left-hand side and engage Bikini Bottom. Give it a moment, and youll find the familiar landscape of Bikini Bottom, which should be recognizable to any fan of the cartoon. Youll find SpongeBobs home, Squidward and Patricks to your left, and some Bikini Bottom fauna to your right. But even cooler is the attention to detail. When it opens, a string of bubbles rises to the top, and you can even pop them by looking at them and performing a single tap.Most importantly, though, the show's iconic narrator greets you with a friendly and welcoming, "Ah the sea." If you glance over to SpongeBob and click on his door, youll see Gary the snail and hear a meow. Doing the same to Squidward's front door will debut a famous quote or two. The same goes for Patrick, in which the rock flips open, and youll find the character inside. (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) There is a mini-game here as well you can catch Jellyfish either in a free mode or in a timed challenge. Its pretty basic, but youll see an array of colorful jellyfish fly around the Bikini Bottom environment, and youll look at once and tap your fingers together to catch one, in which a jellyfish net will appear and magically swoosh to get it. Its a bit of a basic experience, though, and while I get that its part of an interactive environment, it would have been neat to have you actually swing the net. One can wish for the future, though? Even so, its a bit more of a full-feature environment from a third-party app, as sitting on a landspeeder in Disney Plus or at the top of Avengers Tower is incredible, andyou cant truly interact with the space. This debut from Paramount Plus might up some competition though. Take in an episode of SpongeBob with SpongeBob (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) Central to any of the best streaming services like Paramount Plus on the Vision Pro is, of course, actually watching content. Its also one of the key benefits of the $3,500 Spatial Computer as you can watch a TV show or movies on a screen that stretches well over 100-inches with epic visuals and Spatial Audio or Dolby Atmos sound; its great. When you're in the Paramount Plus app with this new environment and you start streaming a piece of content like one of the other best Paramount Plus shows it doesnt have to be SpongeBob the sun sets in Bikini Bottom, and the screen moves to a position to the right of the famous pineapple house.The show will start playing, with controls underneath, but SpongeBob will also appear in front of his house, sitting down and snacking on some popcorn to watch whatever youre streaming with you. Its pretty cute. Daniel Reich, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Product and Design at Paramount Plus, shared that its been an exciting creative process bringing SpongeBobs Bikini Bottom to life and providing a truly unique, interactive streaming experience for our subscribers and the shows loyal fan base. And for the first environment within Paramount Plus on the Apple Vision Pro, its a nice experience that does more to complete the feeling of being transported elsewhere; I cant just help but wonder how this might expand in the future or be replicated for other Paramount properties or even emulated by other streaming platforms. For now, if you have an Apple Vision Pro and a Paramount Plus subscription, you too can venture to Bikini Bottom without flopping like a fish. But whos to say it isnt encouraged? Just be sure to update the Paramount Plus app to the latest version on Apple Vision Pro to use the new environment. You might also like Apple Vision Pro is finally getting VR games, but is it too late? Marvels first immersive story for the Apple Vision Pro Vision Pro put me on the MLS playoffs field ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/streaming/paramount-plus/i-visited-bikini-bottom-on- the-apple-vision-pro-caught-jellyfish-and-watched-one-of-the-best-paramount-pl us-shows-with-spongebob --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .