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This is Apple’s first scripted short film for the Vision Pro. | Image: Apple
I don’t like submarines. The idea of being trapped, several hundred feet underwater, in a narrow, creaking death trap? No thanks. I already knew that going into a screening of Submerged, the first scripted short film shot in Apple Immersive Video for the Vision Pro. Now that I’ve seen it, I’m triply sure.
Written and directed by Oscar winner Edward Berger, Submerged takes place inside a WWII submarine that’s under attack. I
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