Oculus Story Studio

[Tbone]

https://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-story-studio-oculus-unity-free-and-gdc-2015/

Over the last two years, we’ve seen virtual reality expand well beyond games into more unexpected areas like cinema and storytelling. This week as part of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, we’re excited to announce a new experimental virtual reality cinema project: Oculus Story Studio.

Oculus Story Studio is made up of a small, all-star team of film and game developers dedicated to exploring ‘immersive cinema’ — realtime story-driven VR experiences that let the viewer step inside and become part of the story. The goal was to learn more about cinema and storytelling in VR and to share that knowledge with the community.

Story Studio is debuting its first, short (4-minute) experience this week at Sundance called ‘Lost’. Lost takes the viewer on a journey to a moonlit forest inhabited by an unexpected creature. The piece is directed by Story Studio’s creative director Saschka Unseld, who was also the director of Pixar’s short film ‘The Blue Umbrella’.

[Maglorius]

To be honest,  I think I have mentioned that on different occasions. Having VR movies that allowed the person wearing the Oculus Rift to dive right into being a character in the movie or become the Hero.

Awesome stuff, cinematic VR adventures!

[Tbone]

My only fear is that they're starting to give up on a solid gaming input solution and thought "Well, we better make sure we have some passive experiences that don't involve interaction!"

Even taking something like Pacific Rim 3D and watching it on a virtual IMAX curved screen is pretty immersive!