Metallica announce “immersive” new VR concert film capturing ‘M72’ tour

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Metallica have announced details of an “immersive” new VR film concert. Find out more below.The new launch comes as the thrash metal pioneers teamed up with Apple, and developed a new virtual reality concert film that is compatible with Apple Vision Pro.Available from Friday (March 14), the immersive concert film is simply dubbed ‘Metallica’ and incorporates footage taken from the band’s recent run of ‘M72’ tour dates.

The run of shows took place in countries around the world and celebrated the release of their latest album ‘72 Seasons’.The footage used for the new collaboration with Apple was filmed at their final date, held in Mexico City last year, and features full performances of hit tracks ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘Whiplash’ and ‘One’.

All of these were shot in Apple immersive video and show an ultra-high-resolution 180-degree video (as per Consequence).It also includes spatial audio and gets as close as the band’s “Snake Pit”, to make it as immersive as possible.

All of these features were captured with cable-suspended cameras, remote-controlled camera dolly systems on the stage, and stabilised cameras.As well as the VR concert, Metallica are also teaming up with Apple to share a new EP using the spatial audio.