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Apple TV+ 'Monsterverse' Show Filming in 3D for Vision Pro Viewing

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Fuck me. They found the only thing in the universe that would convince me to drop $3,500 on a VR headset.

A god damn Godzilla TV series.

For me, it'd be a good Jurassic Park TV series - but not ANY JP movie, those things are absolute crap and they've lost a lifelong fan. They lost me at the third one and they have only further alienated me since then.

That or a Trespasser-like game.

Not exactly Jurassic Park, but have you tried Prehistoric Planet?

Apple TV, I tried it. Good ideas, lots of production value but inevitably the social justice is layered on so heavily that it becomes the plot. Don’t need that for 3,500 and life sized and projected right into my brain.

Has Apple TV improved?

What shows are you complaining about and what are your actual issues?

Are you just complaining about Ted Lasso and how the show was a little too campy in the last season and how they dared to address racism and homophobia in a few episodes and you think they are not important? If anything the bigger complaint is that they introduced those plot points only to quickly forget them.

I find the shows in general surprisingly good for a relatively new service. Silo, Foundation, mythic quest, Severance, The After-party, Invasion, City on Fire, See, etc have all been great. If there is one complaint, they seem to have a strict "Foul language and graphic violence are ok, but absolutely no nudity" rule. Ruined a plot line a little bit in Platonic, where it was plainly obvious the characters were going to find out a way to not go to a strip club, despite discussing the logistics for like five minutes.

Is it really worth discussing subjective opinions with a stranger over the internet? I often find these threads to be so ridiculous, like a Metal head arguing with a Classical aficionado who doesn’t like his favorite music.

He didn’t just express a preference, he specifically said that

> inevitably the social justice is layered on so heavily that it becomes the plot

Which is both a specific criticism that might be worth exploring and surprising given shows like Foundation, See, Silo, and Severance. It doesn’t make any sense to me unless the only show they’ve seen is Ted Lasso or it’s a dog whistle (hate to Godwin it but that’s the first thing that came to mind given some of the cast diversity).

How is what you're doing with this comment any different?

There appears to be two sides to Apple TV+. There’s neutered, offend nobody side, then there’s incredible content scattered about. Tehran and Drops of God were some wild rides.

Tehran was great, I guess I should give the other series you mention a watch.

Because the Vision Pro has to be fitted to each individual (both in software and, for those wearing glasses, in hardware), would it be feasible to create a “cinema”, where you buy a few dozen to a hundred of these devices and let a group of people watch such a movie together?

If so, would it be economically viable? What could one charge for such an experience?

I think that Apple’s own needs are an under explored motivation for their high end hardware. I think that the biggest customer of the old iMac Pro was probably Apple themselves. I think the new rack mounted Mac Pro will see heavy use by Apple for making content for the Vision Pro.

I have no idea what the camera systems for VR content are or will be but I imagine that a Mac Pro loaded with several video capture cards and high speed PCIe 4 SSDs would make an ideal capture system.

Now imagine what would be required to stream a live sporting event in 4k VR. How many different cameras, angles, etc. are there in a production like that? How many racked Mac Pros would that require?

False.

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