MLB launches new app on Apple Vision Pro

Major League Baseball has unveiled a new MLB app for the Apple Vision Pro, which will allow fans to personalize their viewing experience and enjoy baseball like never before.

While watching a game in the MLB app on Apple Vision Pro, Apple's revolutionary new spatial computer designed to seamlessly blend digital content with the physical world, users can enter a fully immersive, 3D viewing environment with interactive statistics and play-by-play. And other features that are fully user-controlled, including enhanced data visualizations powered by Statcast.

The new MLB app on Apple Vision Pro also allows users to place their viewing experience inside a digitally rendered MLB ballpark, simulating the viewing experience on a stadium's video board. Additionally, fans can spatially interact with the MLB app on Apple Vision Pro while also using other apps at the same time.

“Baseball fans seek to connect with their favorite teams and players with as much depth as possible — Apple Vision Pro gives us a whole new way to deliver the national entertainment to fans in their own space, no matter where they are, with a great experience,” said Noah Garden, MLB’s deputy commissioner for business and media. : “Depth, clarity and sound.” “Thanks to Apple’s incredible ingenuity and our incredibly talented MLB staff, fans can transform their space into a major league ballpark and surround themselves with a rich spatial experience that was previously impossible, all while enjoying a more immersive viewing experience.”

Upon release, the MLB app on Apple Vision Pro will provide fans unrestricted access to experience Game 1 of the 2023 World Series between the Rangers and D-backs, an 11-inning classic that set the stage for Texas' five-game Fall Classic victory over Arizona.

An updated version of the MLB app on the Apple Vision Pro is scheduled to be delivered around Opening Day, providing access to additional content to MLB.TV subscribers, who will be able to surround themselves with both live games and on-demand content in a fully customizable, dynamic environment.

“Technological innovation is at the heart of Major League Baseball,” Garden said. “We have been evolving sports broadcasting for decades to make our fans better – from the first games on radio, broadcast, cable and satellite to live streaming and the launch of MLB Network. If there is ever an opportunity for baseball fans to enjoy our sport on any given platform, we need to We have a presence where we can deliver unique storytelling experiences, and we will continue this approach to continually meet the needs of our audiences.