Apple Vision Pro gets Bono documentary for first feature-length immersive video

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U2 frontman Bono's "Stories of Surrender" show is to premiere on Apple TV+ as the first-ever feature-length film to be shown in 180 degree and 8K video on Apple Vision Pro.

Black-and-white portrait of a person seated in profile, with yellow text reading Bono Stories of Surrender on the left side.
Teaser poster for the first-ever full-length Apple Vision Pro documentary film -- image credit: Apple



Bono and U2 go back a long way with Apple, starting with their 2004 partnership that included iTunes ads and the black and red iPod. Ten years later, things went less well with Tim Cook popping U2's "Songs of Innocence" album onto everyone's iPhones in 2014, and just over ten more years later, frontman Bono is back.

Bono later took the blame for Apple pushing the U2 album onto everybody, and he did so in his memoir, "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story". He then turned that book into a one-man show, and this is what Apple has now filmed for both Apple TV+ and Apple Vision Pro.

Premiering globally on May 30, 2025, Apple calls the film a "vivid reimagining of Bono's critically-acclaimed one-man stage show." It features U2 songs, plus never-before-shown footage, but it's the Apple Vision Pro version that will be the remarkable version.

Filmed in 180-degree 8K with Spatial Audio, the new production puts viewers onstage with Bono. More significant than the image quality, the sound quality, or the film's immersive 180-degree view, though, is that it's movie-length.

Apple has not revealed the duration, but does state that it is the first feature-length film to be released on Apple Vision Pro. Well over a year since the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, it has repeatedly been said that it lacks content. Apple has been producing more, and recently was reported to be working anew to get more developers and filmmakers creating immersive video.

But to date, Apple Vision Pro has been used chiefly to showcase short productions. To date, its only movie that has been produced specifically for Apple Vision Pro is the submarine drama, "Submerged," which runs for around 16 minutes.



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  • Reply 1 of 8
    avidthinkeravidthinker Posts: 100member
    "not the record holder, but the record itself..."
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    tiredskillstiredskills Posts: 104member
    Oh come on.  A world of interesting things to make 3D films about and they choose Bono?  Apple's boner for Bono and U2 is bizarre.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    neoncatneoncat Posts: 181member
    Oh come on.  A world of interesting things to make 3D films about and they choose Bono?  Apple's boner for Bono and U2 is bizarre.
    Apple's boomer-something approach to music strikes again. It's either constantly trying to resurface fossils like Bono (what next, a scintillating multipart documentary about the ennui of Dennis DeYoung? Pinch me!) or creepy-uncle-style salivating over Billie Eilish. You know, to show they're hip with the kids. She'll be long retired from music, moving on to bigger and better avenues for her talent, and Apple will still be trying to give her awards for existing. 

    But I suppose it makes sense that this movie is for the AVP, then. An inessential artist specially featured in a format for an inessential product. (chef's kiss)
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    jblongzjblongz Posts: 172member
    Of the the groundbreaking features that could be at display, with actions, sci-fi, and CGI, this is extremely underwhelming to their majority tech-savy customers who actually own a Vision Pro.  This tribute could have waited for some other nearby memorial event.  Maybe we need a gen-z and millennial on the board after all.  I wonder if Bob Iger and Al Gore pushed for this.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    robin huberrobin huber Posts: 4,063member
    Jeez, must have stumbled into the Ageists Power website! 
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    mrstepmrstep Posts: 532member
    Jeez, must have stumbled into the Ageists Power website! 
    It's pretty funny to watch.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    paisleydiscopaisleydisco Posts: 160member
    LOL the comments.

    I'll be watching on my AVP! 

    In the meantime, some of you can continue crying about an artist with a 40 + year international music career who still sells out stadiums around the world. 


    Carry on...
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    humbug1873humbug1873 Posts: 194member
    So Apple Vision is even worse off than I thought. They dug in the bottom of the barrel to get something for that thing.
    entropyswatto_cobra
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