Gallery: Apple Showcases Its VR Dreams—With a U2 Video

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    Bono sings "Song for Someone" in the Vrse VR experience.
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    At the end, the VR experience returns to U2 singing in Toronto.
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    The Edge recorded this segment with choir singers in Los Angeles.
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    A Vrse crew went to a very remote location to get footage of musicians in Israel. "\[We went\] deep into the Negev desert to meet a group of musicians who lived in isolation and dedicated themselves fully to their craft, playing with only traditional instruments," says Gabo Arora, a United Nations senior advisor and filmmaker who worked second unit on "Song for Someone" and also directed Vrse's Ebola documentary, adding that the beauty of the location was "epic."
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    The scene with the mariachis morphs into a scene in Shaharut, Israel.
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    U2 bassist Adam Clayton plays with female mariachis in Hacienda Heights, California.
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    A young guitarist in Thailand plays "Song for Someone" in this screengrab from the VR experience.
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    A woman singing in Paris is merged with an image of a musician in Bangalore, India.
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    A scene of a man playing the song in Yellowstone National Park morphs into another scene showing a young harpist playing "Song for Someone" in New York.
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    A screengrab from the Vrse "Song for Someone" VR experience showing the band performing in Toronto.
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