Apple Is Bringing Live Nba Games To The Vision Pro In 2026

Apple is partnering pinch Spectrum SportsNet to watercourse prime Los Angeles Lakers games straight to nan Apple Vision Pro during nan 2025-2026 hoops season. The games will beryllium filmed successful nan Apple Immersive video format, nan aforesaid VR-friendly filming style nan institution utilized to seizure nan Metallica performance film it released earlier this year.

Beyond giving you a logic to rustle nan particulate disconnected your $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, watching nan games in-headset will showcase "perspectives intolerable to seizure successful accepted broadcasts," Apple claims. Live games will beryllium constricted to headset owners surviving successful nan Lakers' location broadcast territory (Southern California, Hawaii and parts of confederate Nevada) and will apt require a subscription to view, but Apple says nan afloat replays and highlights will besides beryllium accessible successful "select countries and regions from some nan SportsNet and NBA apps." There's nary schedule of games disposable yet, but Apple and Spectrum opportunity they'll denote their last plans this fall, pinch nan first games streaming early 2026.

While nan wide statement connected nan Vision Pro is that it makes for a awesome media depletion device, sports programming that takes advantage of its unsocial features has been mostly missing. Apple makes it easy to watch things for illustration Friday Night Baseball and Major League Soccer, but nan NBA is nan only mainstream sports convention trying to connection an acquisition that's circumstantial to nan Vision Pro. Beyond playing unrecorded games, the NBA visionOS app tin show real-time subordinate stats, watercourse aggregate games astatine erstwhile successful multiview and show you a tabletop position of games, complete pinch a 3D tribunal and mini players.

Now that Apple is reportedly prioritizing smart glasses complete a lighter and cheaper type of nan Vision Pro, nan champion point nan institution tin do is proviso existing owners pinch caller things to watch. Not everyone loves nan Lakers, but if it opens nan doorway to much unrecorded sports successful nan future, that's only a bully thing.