The Most Tech-Forward Music Videos of 2015

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Always the innovator, Björk chose to use virtual reality technology for her “Stonemilker” video, which debuted at MoMA PS1 in New York. She sings the heartbreaking song on a black sand beach in Iceland, appearing at varying distances from the camera. She lets the expression of her face and body movements do most of the most communicating, while the tide ebbs and flows. It’s especially captivating when you move through the video to find multiple Björks dancing, one after the other.

Having directed for FOALS before (“Bad Habit” and “Late Night”), Nabil used GoPro’s HERO camera to create “Mountain at My Gates,” a video within nature that has multiples of the band rocking out. It comes off as an intimate, outdoor concert more than a music video, and perhaps that was the point.

Avicii’s “Waiting for Love” virtual reality video has dancers coming in and out of a set of doors, and unlike other VR videos, you really have to move around for this one to catch all of the dancers. Avicii makes a sly appearance that could easily be missed if you don’t use the VR experience to its full potential.

Though John Carpenter is hardly seen in front of a camera, he made an exception for his virtual reality music video, “Night,” and went all the way by sporting a VR headset himself. Carpenter drives through the city, perhaps without aim, before the viewer is introduced to an enigmatic character. The open road has never felt as simultaneously alluring and daunting as it does in the VR experience of “Night.”