Paul McCartney embraces virtual reality to recall the Beatles’ best recordings
The noted music video director Tony Kaye (best known for directing American History X) filmed McCartney telling the stories behind some of his most famous singles while hanging out and playing instruments in his home studio. Viewers can watch online at Jaunt’s website, but to get the full experience they should download the app and either watch on a cellphone with a Google Cardboard or fancier VR headsets.
In all the clips there are little bits of animation – such as a magic light pen drawing pictures of the Beatles, or diagrams of chord progressions that appear and disappear – that are sprinkled throughout the environment.
Instead, what newcomers to VR can experience is just what the medium is capable of: the way that even these slightly boring tales can be rendered with mind-bending immediacy as suddenly their entire view is taken over by black-and-white images of stringed instruments or strange scarlet drawings of John Lennon.
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