Three years ago this week, visual effects veteran Gil Baron joined up with virtual reality (VR) pioneer Jonnie Ross a handful of other VR enthusiasts to build the nascent medium’s version of Final Cut Pro. But a few months in, the team threw all of its preconceived notions about serious production tools over board, and instead opted to just go crazy — complete with fart jokes and talking Twinkies.
Instead of the Final Cut Pro for VR, Baron, Ross and their co-conspirators ended up building Mindshow, an animated storytelling tool for VR that currently works with HTC’s Vive headset. Mindshow lets users easily pick avatars and record short skits by acting them out while wearing VR headsets. “If you tell stories in VR, you should do it from within VR,” said Baron during a recent interview with Variety.
And if you already have the ability to be an animated character, why not be a green-skinned alien, telling lewd jokes to a drunken audience in a VR comedy club? “Ridiculous nonsense is actually the best place to start,” Ross said.
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Source: Variety