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Virtual reality **w has Emmy winners, too
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Virtual reality has official entered awards season territory.

Henry, a VR animated short about a hedgehog, received an Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program. It's part of the juried Emmy awards given before the ceremony on Sept. 18, and it's the first piece of VR narrative to win such an award.

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The eight-minute short was produced by Oculus Story Studio, an internal division of the VR headset maker focused on crafting narrative that works best in virtual reality. In that sense, Henry director Ramiro Lopez Dau, who came from a career animating films at Pixar, said there's an incredible amount of experimentation. Read more...

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