At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, filmmakers displayed a mastery of virtual reality with a series of emotional, meaningful stories. It’s an encouraging sign, consideringprevious efforts to produce coherent, non-game VR experiences have floundered, mostly due to the medium’s infancy and a lack of widely available technology. Finally, though, we seem to have moved beyond the novelty of virtual reality and are starting to see it used to tackle various important issues.
Take The Last Goodbye. It’s a personal Holocaust survivor story that brings you to a former concentration camp. You’re accompanied by a survivor, who is re-created volumetrically in the simulation so it feels like he’s actually beside you and looking you in the eyes when he talks. The photorealistic reproductions in Last Goodbye force a powerful realization that the horrors your companion is describing actually happened, in a manner just as vivid as a visit to the real-world sites.
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Source: Engadget