# Install spatial with Homebrew Cask

Tool for working with MV-HEVC/spatial videos. Version 0.6.2 via Homebrew Cask; verified 2026-05-12.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:spatial
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask spatial
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:spatial
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Version:** 0.6.2
- **Source summary:** Tool for working with MV-HEVC/spatial videos
- **Homepage:** <https://blog.mikeswanson.com/spatial>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-12T12:22:27+01:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- spatial (binary)
- spatial (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.2
## Project history and usage

Spatial is a free macOS command-line tool by Mike Swanson for processing Apple MV-HEVC spatial videos and spatial photos.

### Project history

The tool appeared in the Apple Vision Pro and iPhone spatial-video moment, when MV-HEVC files needed practical conversion paths into stereoscopic formats that ordinary video editors and 3D players could handle. Its official page describes it as Mac-only because it depends on Apple frameworks for MV-HEVC encoding, decoding, and spatial-photo handling.

### Adoption history

Its package-manager footprint is intentionally small: the project page documents Homebrew installation, and the input package facts show it is distributed as a Homebrew cask named spatial.

### How it is used

Spatial is used from the terminal to inspect, export, make, combine, and modify metadata for spatial video files. Typical usage includes exporting MV-HEVC captures to over-under or side-by-side formats, or making MV-HEVC spatial video from stereoscopic source material.

### Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, Spatial is a good example of a niche macOS-only media utility whose dependency on platform frameworks makes Homebrew cask distribution more natural than a portable Unix formula.

### Timeline

- 2024: Spatial v0.6.2 was released on August 12, according to the official project page.

### Related projects

- Related tools and references named by the project include Spatial Metadata GUI, Spatialify, SpatialGen, SpatialMediaKit, and Apple spatial-video sample code.

### Sources

- <https://blog.mikeswanson.com/spatial/>
- <https://blog.mikeswanson.com/spatial_docs/>
- source_facts.package-manager
- source_facts.source-archive


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for spatial. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/spatial.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/spatial.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph