Hollywood,
Meet Oculus Rift: Studios Quietly Toying With New
Virtual Reality Camera
When
Facebook bought Oculus Rift back in March, Hollywood took **tice. Though accelerated development of the virtual-reality headset will be largely driven by video games, the idea of strapping immersive ****** or TV shows to your head suddenly seemed inevitable.
But creating gaming content for VR looks easy compared
With the challenge of capturing the real world for viewing through the mask. How do you block your actors? Should the
Camera move?
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And what kind of
Camera would you even shoot on in the first place?
Palo Alto-based startup Jaunt has been
Quietly building just such a platform, which it hopes it can deliver to
Virtual Reality headsets***t just immersive cinematic-style narrative content, but live events as well.*With a new $6.8 million capital raise, a full working demo and meetings scheduled all over Los Angeles, the company — which has been toiling for months in "stealth" mode — has de-cloaked and is ready to mingle.
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