the spatial video format is mostly a hevc standard, with a few apple mods. but you can watch them on oculus quest, and they look great. **step 1 - have an iphone 15 pro, and take a spatial video.** there are existing tutorial for this. you need to turn on the setting, and you need to enable the spatial option when taking the video. you'll know you've succeeded if your photos app shows a "spatial" folder that apple automatically created (down next to the "screenshots" folder) and your video is in it. **step 2 - convert using spatialify.** in spatialify, i do browse spatial album, or batch export, and i use the setting "full side-by-side", and keep "horizontal disparity adjustment" set to on. **step 3 - airdrop to mac.** then airdrop that video to your mac. **step 4 - transfer to your quest using sidequest.** (windows doesn't need sidequest, it just needs developer mode enabled) download sidequest. https://sidequestvr.com/setup-howto follow their instructions. (you don't need a sidequest account to transfer content.) (note that you'll need to "allow" when your mac/windows asks about connecting to the device, and you'll also need to do allow on your oculus too.) then, use sidequest to upload the video into your "Movies" folder on your quest. note that at first, quest 3 won't show up on macos or windows. it won't show in your finder. on mac, you need to use sidequest and follow their instructions, you won't be able to see it as a hard drive like a digital camera, you can only access it through sidequest. so basically the best way to connect the oculus to the mac for data transfer is using sidequest. on windows, you can enable developer mode and then it should show up. **step 5 - watch on quest using bigscreen or skybox.** download the app bigscreen on quest. skybox is apparently also good, i've not used it. use the "local player" option in bigscreen to watch it. in the bottom right while it's playing in bigscreen, set the playback mode to use 180 3d. **success!** there's also alternative approach to skip needing to transfer it to your quest -- upload it to youtube instead -- follow this [[getting spatial videos on youtube with spatialify]], there are some tricks you need, otherwise it'll play as a flat video instead of a 3d video. things to avoid: * using the 'files' app on quest * using the 'tv' app on quest * installing 'mobile vr station' or 'sidequest' on quest itself (you'll need sidequest on your mac/windows computer, but not on quest itself)