Disney+ On Apple Vision Pro Gets Alien: Earth Environment

The Disney+ app on visionOS now has an Alien: Earth environment.

The new environment lets Apple Vision Pro owners watch Alien: Earth, or anything else on Disney+, from inside the Containment Room on the USCSS Maginot.

Trying it out, it looks exactly like the clip below, a realistic and immersive virtual recreation of the containment room complete with ambient sound, and even, be warned, the alien itself occasionally crawling above you.

Alien: Earth Containment Room is the sixth virtual environment in Disney+ on visionOS. The app launched with Apple Vision Pro, and had four environments to start:

• Disney+ Theater: inspired by the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
• Tatooine: sits you in the cockpit of Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder, facing a binary sunset on the Star Wars planet.
• Avengers Tower: puts you on the top floor of Tony’s Stark’s skyscraper, overlooking downtown Manhattan.
• Scare Floor: from Pixar’s Monsters Inc.

And a year ago, around six months after launch, the app also added an Iceland environment, based on Thingvellir National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage site), developed in collaboration with National Geographic.

Vision Pro owners can also view immersive panorama images of the USCSS Maginot’s Containment Room, Galley, and Mech Corridors at this URL.

These panoramas are technically also available for other headsets, via WebXR, but on Quest and Pico I found they just displayed as very wide but small and flat images, not as immersive curved panoramas. This seems like either an oversight or just lazy implementation.

On Apple Vision Pro, the URL also includes a series of 3D spatial photos of key characters from Alien: Earth, and Alien: Earth – The Official Podcast is also offered in 3D spatial video.