Godzilla set to stomp onto the Vision Pro as Apple TV Plus hints it’s making a VR monster series

Apple’s Vision Pro is rumored to be preparing a monster series to show off its screens

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We’re pretty excited about thenew Godzilla showonAppleTV Plus,Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,and it looks like early adopters of theApple Vision Proheadset have even more reasons to be excited about it. The forthcomingApple TV Plusshow has reportedly been shot in an “immersive 3D” format for a possible Apple Vision Pro release.

According toFlatPanelsHD.com, the aspect ratio in the first-look images that Apple has been sharing are 21:9 rather than the 16:9 you’d expect from a normal TV show for normally sized screens, which could be Apple’s way of hinting at the 3D format. And according to the Screen Times podcast earlier this year, Apple has been shooting Monarch in the stereoscopic 3D format that the Vision Pro supports.

What would Godzilla look like in Vision Pro?

According to Apple, the Vision Pro headset supports “180-degree high resolution recordings with Spatial Audio”, so there’s the possibility to deliver more immersive video experiences than just looking at a static screen.

Apple has already demonstrated some 3D video on the Vision Pro. It showed off clips fromAvatar: The Way of Waterto press during this year’sWWDCto demonstrate how the Vision Pro handled stereoscopic 3D video.

There’s no doubt that the hardware can handle it. But the big question is what content Apple and its partners are creating for it. And right now I think it’s more likely that any Vision Pro content will be additional content – the VR equivalent of DVD extras – and/or a large virtual screen rather than entire shows filmed in extra-wide 180-degree format.

I’m not being sniffy here, because I think Godzilla movies are a lot of fun. But equally the audience for them is relatively small, and when you consider the extra complexity and cost of shooting an entire series in stereoscopic 3D I’m not convinced it makes any sense to do it. It would be an enormous investment for very little return, and I’m not sure that’s something Apple would do – especially at the moment when the total number of monster movie fans using Vision Pro is roughly the same number of buildings that Godzilla and pals tend to leave behind after their battles, ie zero.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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