Oculus VR made a movie

At the Sundance Film Festival traditionally show unusual experiments from independent directors who do not fit into the patterns of Hollywood.

This year, the public was surprised by the company Oculus VR (a division of Facebook). As you know, she is releasing Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses, but now she decided to try herself in a new field and presented a short film Lost .


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The film is unusual in itself. Theoretically, its duration is only 5 minutes, but the viewer has the opportunity to explore the world and explore different corners of virtual reality. At the same time, reality reacts interactively to actions: for example, you have scared off a swarm of fireflies - and they are now flying around you. As a result, a stunning presence effect is created, even cooler than in the Yandex.Teleport project, which bobuk told about after the corporate party .

The film filmed a division of Story Studio, its task is to create original content of virtual reality and help Hollywood studios to master the new technology. During the past year, a studio hired a group of professionals from Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic to work at the studio.



Oculus VR is not going to let Lost into rent, but seeks to sell the production technology of such films to film studios and help them in the process of their creation.

Tellingly, Story Studio is not the only company that works in this direction. At the festival, more than a dozen other independent studios showed their work in the field of virtual reality. Back in October last year, the Zero Point film was released - the first ever short film with a 360-degree review. In November, the film Live and Let Die .