Metallica is preparing to release a Vision Pro ‘immersive concert experience’ this coming Friday, March 14th. Photo Credit: Apple
The Vision Pro is officially set to receive another “immersive experience” – this time from Metallica, which filmed the work at a Mexico City concert last year.
Apple disclosed Metallica’s namesake Vision Pro release (plus different projects for the high-end headset) in a brief announcement. Teed up for a March 14th debut, the metal mainstay’s concert experience will feature renditions of “Whiplash,” “One,” and “Enter Sandman.”
As described by Apple, it captured the performances with 14 “immersive video cameras,” strategically positioned on “a custom stage layout,” when Metallica played the Estadio GNP Seguros in September 2024.
(The four sold-out shows at that 65,000-capacity stadium capped the M72 World Tour’s 2024 leg, and Metallica is scheduled to return to the road next month.)
And in doing so, the iPhone developer says it utilized a “mix of stabilized cameras, cable-suspended cameras, and remote-controlled camera dolly systems that moved around the stage.”
Meanwhile, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich touted the “game-changing” Vision Pro concert experience, including during a wide-ranging SXSW sit down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
“Apple Immersive Video transforms the way people experience storytelling,” added Apple marketing exec Tor Myhren, “and we’re thrilled to collaborate with Metallica on a concert unlike any before it. With Metallica on Apple Vision Pro, you feel like you’re right there: front row, backstage, and even on stage with one of the biggest bands of all time.”
Though there’s certainly something to be said for that description and the release’s appeal to Metallica diehards, the $3,500 Vision Pro, having reportedly ceased production in 2024, remains a niche product.
Running with the point, Metallica is also preparing to put out the concert recordings in a spatial-audio-equipped EP, M72 World Tour: Mexico City, on Apple Music this Friday. (The tracks from Raye’s Vision Pro “Concert for One” set became available to stream exclusively on Apple Music, to name a similar example.)
Likewise on the horizon is a “special edition” of Bono: Stories of Surrender. Slated for a May 30th Apple TV+ premiere, the documentary will hit the Vision Pro that same day, Apple reiterated. That’ll make the project “the first feature-length film available in Apple Immersive Video,” the company drove home.
In other virtual- and mixed-reality music news, Synth Riders dropped a “Current Waves” music pack last week. The add-on brought five new tracks – from David Guetta and One Republic, Sia, Charli XCX, Jack Harlow, and Artemas – to the rhythm game, which previously created an exclusive Kendrick Lamar Vision Pro experience.
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