Metallica and Apple have teamed up for a VR live performance movie out there through Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional beginning Friday (March 14th).
Merely titled “Metallica,” the immersive live performance expertise was filmed throughout Metallica’s last “M72 Tour” cease of 2024 in Mexico Metropolis and options full performances of “Whiplash,” “One,” and “Enter Sandman” — all shot in Apple Immersive Video.
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The footage captures ultra-high-resolution 180-degree video and Spatial Audio to convey viewers vantage factors as shut up because the band’s “Snake Pit,” along with wide-angle views of the stage. This was achieved with the development of a customized stage plot that includes 14 Apple Immersive Video cameras utilizing a mixture of stabilized cameras, cable-suspended cameras, and remote-controlled digital camera dolly techniques that moved across the stage.
For these with out an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, a standalone Spatial Audio EP entitled Metallica Reside from Mexico Metropolis can also be being launched on March 14th through Apple Music. And anybody curious in regards to the VR live performance can head into their native Apple Retailer to demo an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, with future in-store headset demos now that includes a portion of the immersive live performance expertise (starting on March 14th).
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich mentioned the immersive live performance in an interview with Zane Lowe at SXSW on Tuesday (March eleventh).
“It was simply so cool, the filming half, however then the enhancing half — the primary few instances having the headset on and having the ability to do this [moves head around] and see and in addition hear the [spatial] audio,” Ulrich stated. “It’s simply fucking loopy.”
Followers may take a look at Metallica with their very own eyes and ears when the thrash legends launch a brand new North American leg of their “M72 World Tour” in April. Get tickets right here.
Try the SXSW interview with Ulrich under.