On Sunday, one of the store managers
As he performs, the front row seat experience becomes deeply personal, with the U2 frontman seemingly locking eyes with you before the camera swings to his side to reveal the crowd, pumping their fists in excitement. The song’s lyrics leap from beneath Bono’s feet through 3D animation, gathering around him while hovering over the crowd.This isn’t your typical concert. It's an all-access pass into Bono's performance and documentary film
which premiered last week onTV+ and gained new life through the. The device places viewers right onstage with Bono, delivering it all in 8K with spatial audio for a fully immersive 180-degree video.
“There's a kind of intimacy afforded to us,” said Bono, who added that immersive technologies tap into viewers senses and emotions more deeply than traditional media. “It's not just being in the room. You can be in your head.”These days, experiences like Bono's concert film have become the next frontier of music, film and live performances. Headset devices like the Vision Pro and
, alongside next-gen venues such as the Sphere and Cosm, are making these experiences borderless, turning every seat into the best one in the house.
Some of music’s biggest names — includingAfter not making it to the finale on
went home and developed a new danger act, so they could return to thestage just in time for the show’s landmark 20th season with its new composite of judges:
Their initial Messoudi Brothers act was a balancing act, not knives, and this time around only two of the three brothers competed --“There are still three of us,” Soffien explained, “We left our brother at home. He decided to sit this one out because he has two children at home and he does some time off every now and then. We still work together but we are trying something new that’s quite a lot more dangerous than what we did last time.”