Virtual reality is considered one of the hottest new technologies, but up until now it’s largely been focused on the gaming industry. A young company in Silicon Valley feels the medium has just as much, if not more potential, for the world of film. CGTN’s Mark Niu reports.
In 2016, Baobab Studios released the six-minute short ‘Invasion!’ which made viewers a first-person character in a virtual reality animation movie.
“In VR, people believe that little bunny in ‘Invasion!’ was real. You would never in a normal theater have a character hide behind you, so it’s the sense of space and reality is completely different,”co-founder and chief executive, Maureen Fan said.
Fan is a former Zynga executive who oversaw the popular online social media game FarmVille. Her Baobab team also includes top directors and animators from Dreamworks and Pixar.
With a recent $25 million round of funding that includes 20th Century Fox and Shanghai Media Group, Baobab set the bar even higher for its next film ‘Asteroids!’, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Source: CGTN