‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu on Making 2024 Film With Apple Vision Pro [Video]

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Jon M. Chu embraced the latest technology when bringing his record-breaking film adaptation to life (now available to buy or rent on the Apple TV app). As one of the first filmmakers to put spatial computing to the test, Chu used Apple Vision Pro while editing and producing parts of Wicked.

Vision Pro, Apple‘s first “spatial computer,” is a mixed-reality headset that blends digital content with the physical world. This means users can interact with the digital in a way that feels like it’s physically present in their space. The three-dimensional interface is controlled by intuitive inputs: the user’s motion and hand gestures, eye tracking and speech recognition.

“For Wicked, we had a lot of …