“You still get self-conscious. Really, that’s what I look like when I drum? With the tongue and all the silly faces?”: Get up close to Metallica via new immersive VR gig experience
Metallica and Apple have partnered to launch an immersive concert experience exclusive to Apple Vision Pro.
Metallica: an Apple Immersive concert experience is available for free to anyone that owns an Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset from Friday 14 March. The Vision Pro “seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space” meaning users can work across a multitude of apps and experiences at once in what Apple dubs “spatial computing”.
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Captured during one of the band’s M72 shows in Mexico City in 2024, the experience was filmed using ultra-high-resolution 180-degree video and spatial audio. You can have your choice of viewpoint too, whether you want to get up close and personal in Metallica’s front-row Snake Pit, or view from further away to soak up the production.
To film it, Apple built a custom rig with 14 immersive video cameras made up of stabilised cameras, cable-suspended cameras, and remote-control dollies that moved around the stage and band.
Drummer Lars Ulrich announced the film with Apple at SXSW Festival in Texas, where he was asked what it was like to experience it. “Pretty overwhelming. Sort of surreal,” he said. “You still get, to this day, self-conscious. Really, that’s what I look like when I drum? With the tongue and all the silly faces?”
“We were trying on the Vision Pro and looking and these sporting events and so on. It’s fucking insanity,” he added. “Then seeing a Metallica concert like that, and on top of it, in Mexico City… it’s such a beautiful thing.” It’s not actually a full Metallica gig though, as it will only show Enter Sandman, One, and Whiplash.
While the concert is free to view, the Apple Vision Pro retails starting at £3,499, with price dependent on storage option chosen.
Apple stores globally will load the Metallica experience onto their demonstration Vision Pro units from March 14. For anyone not keen on splashing out quite so much, Metallica are also set to release the EP Metallica Live From Mexico City on the same date, and exclusively in spatial audio on Apple Music.
Virtual reality concerts are becoming an increasingly prevalent offering to dedicated fans. Last year, Avenged Sevenfold – who have played with Metallica numerous times in the past – teamed up with AmazeVR to launch their own virtual reality show, viewable via the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest.
For more info, head to the Apple Newsroom.
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