Apple re-invents the movies
Apple's new 3D, immersive short film hits Apple Vision Pro headsets tomorrow.
Apple made a 3D VR movie.
The short film "Submerged," made exclusively for Apple Vision Pro, will be available tomorrow (October 10).
You can watch what they falsely call a "trailer" (it's actually a featurette on the making of the movie) here now.
The movie, directed by Edward Berger, takes place on a submarine during World War II. The sub is torpedo-attacked, and the movie is about the crew fighting for survival.
Reverse-engineering details from the featurette, it's clear that the movie will be both 3D and immersive. This means that you can look around the scenes by moving your head. You will no doubt feel like you're really inside the scene rather than watching it from across the room.
The movie is the first of its kind, according to Berger, who used special cameras, "spatial audio," and Apple Vision Pro headsets in the production.
I love that the world's first immersive movie is called "Submerged."
This is clearly a new medium, and Apple Vision Pro users will be lucky to experience it.
On the production side, the closest we've come to the "Submerged" directing process is Steven Speilberg's "Ready Player One."
Spielberg used VR headsets to explore and visualize "draft" virtual environments created for the film's OASIS scenes to make "edits" before the final rendering in CGI.
He was also able to adjust camera angles and lighting inside VR.
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