A Thinking Hitch

**John Syracuse** (0:00)
Oh, you got that colored bullet, Casey. Oh, it's so hard.

**Casey Liss** (0:03)
I didn't have to deal with it.

**John Syracuse** (0:03)
You don't appreciate what I do to edit this document. Now what are you gonna do? Now are you gonna style that bullet? What are you gonna do?

**Casey Liss** (0:09)
Nope, I'm just gonna live with it.

**Marco Arment** (0:10)
Wait, how do you?

**John Syracuse** (0:11)
Casey doesn't know.

**Casey Liss** (0:12)
I don't know.

**Marco Arment** (0:12)
Neither do I. You're a Google Docs whiz, John.

**John Syracuse** (0:15)
I'm not a Google Docs whiz. What I am is I am a victim of decades of word processing programs that do not make this task easy. That's what I am.

**Casey Liss** (0:27)
Hey, so let's go into what I've decided to call immersive inlet. Let's just cruise right into immersive inlet.
Yeah, you love it. What? You love it.

**John Syracuse** (0:36)
It used to be a corner. What happened?

**Casey Liss** (0:38)
No, because everyone uses a corner. I figured-

**John Syracuse** (0:40)
You were copying everybody else.

**Casey Liss** (0:41)
Yes, and now I'm trying to branch out on my own.

**Marco Arment** (0:43)
Well, in the immersive world, there is no corner.

**Casey Liss** (0:46)
Yeah, well, that is true. There's no corners in immersive world and thus it is an inlet.

**Marco Arment** (0:50)
We have no boundaries, no attachment to physical spaces whatsoever. We're just floating.

**John Syracuse** (0:56)
Except for where the video ends.

**Casey Liss** (0:58)
Except for-

**John Syracuse** (0:58)
The fuzzy edge where the video ends because it's not 360

**Marco Arment** (1:01)
Exactly.

**Casey Liss** (1:01)
All right. So there is, as we record this, it is Wednesday, the 20th of May, 2026 On Friday will be the official debut of Real Madrid, The Weight of Greatness, which is a 20-minute documentary about the, I will call it soccer. You're going to have to deal with it. Soccer team slash club, Real Madrid, which I presume is based in Spain or something. I don't even know. I don't know anything about soccer.

**Marco Arment** (1:24)
Sounds like Ohio.

**Casey Liss** (1:27)
I did watch this 20-minute documentary, and I just wanted to briefly point out that, A, I think it's worth noting whenever there's new immersive stuff, not only because it shows everyone the pace, or lack thereof, of immersive releases on Apple Vision Pro, but for the six of us that do have a Vision Pro, I thought it's worth mentioning for them as well. And what this is, is like I said, a documentary about Real Madrid. I was speaking with a friend of mine, Justin, who said that this is very kind of timely, because I guess Real Madrid is like imploding at the moment, and this was all filmed, I believe, late 2025 But they talk about the team and how important it is and the history behind it. And a couple of things I wanted to call out as highlights. They did a lot of moving the camera, but they are getting better at doing it very slowly. Still gives me a little bit of like, what's happening, but it's better than it used to be. Still a lot more cuts than I think they need. However, there was one time where the ball was like on the right side of my field of view, and it was kicked to the goal, which was on the left side of my field of view. And rather than whipping the camera around or like cutting to a different view, they just let you do the thing that you can do in a Vision Pro.
I turned my head and watched the ball go by, which sounds silly, but a lot of these immersive things, they're like, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. You know, they're all these, I guess, sports directors or editors or what have you that are used to doing that all the time.
At one point, they showed what I think was a sped up film, but it was so preposterous, I almost wonder if it was CGI, in the sense of, in the scale of it all. But what, apparently the stadium for Real Madrid, it has like a, all this grass, I almost said turf, the grass, I guess can get like sucked down into the basement of the stadium and the mechanism to do this is ridiculously large. And they just sit you, I guess, on what I would call as an American football person, the 50 yard line, or the midfield or whatever, and they let you look at this happening at probably like 10x speed. The scale of this, I cannot verbalize how big this was. And I think this is like such a great use of immersive video, because you can look around and everywhere you look, you're seeing the entire pitch, field, whatever, like rising up what appeared to be like 100 feet, way more than seemed necessary, which is why, again, I'm wondering if this was like all faked, and I'm just ignorant and don't realize it, but it was very, very cool.