Apple Vision Pro goes off to never never land with Metallica concert footage

Sleep with both eyes open

News By Lance Ulanoff published 11 March 2025

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Metallica is coming to Vision Pro. The legendary thrash metal band known for their distinctive melodies and razor-sharp lyrics are now contained within Apple's $3,499 mixed-reality headset.

Vision Pro's latest immersive music experience is Metallica performing hits for a crowd of 65,000 fans in Mexico City. Apple filmed the band last year using 14 "Apple Immersive Video Cameras." While we hoped Apple was referring to the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive, a nearly $30,000 dual-lens 8K camera system built specifically to capture Vision Pro content, Apple let us know it was not that high-end system.

In a release on the experience, Apple says the immersive 180-degree video will put you onstage, giving you "unprecedented access" to band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo.

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The cameras were also set up backstage and inside the legendary "Snake Pit," a mosh-pit space for super fans in the middle of the concert stage.

Positioning all those 180-degree cameras on and around the stage (some were on pulleys over the stage, some were on remote-controlled dolleys) puts you in the action as Metallica reminds you to "sleep with one eye open" in Sandman and encourages you to "Bang your head against the stage like you never did before" in Whiplash.

They also play the hit One, but the Vision Pro footage does not give you access to the full nearly two-hour concert.

For Metallica and Vision Pro fans, the new immersive video is good news. Still, if you happen to be a Metallica fan without a pricey headset, you can, starting March 14, book a Vision Pro demo at your local Apple Store, where you'll get to watch Metallica perform Whiplash.

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