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Writing for VR: The Definitive Guide to VR Storytelling

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The very nature of VR/360° video means viewers are not passive—so your storytelling has to help invite them to be active. In 360° storytelling, you must directly address the question of which specific POV you will utilize in your story. What will they discover simply by looking around this space?

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‘We Wait’ Is The First BBC Production For The Oculus Store, And It Is Free

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But We Wait is a first for the British broadcaster which saw the BBC Connected Studio collaborate with legendary Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Digital – the makers of Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep – to produce a dramatization of the dangerous journey Syrian migrants take from Turkey to Greece on smuggler’s boats.

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Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch

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Viewers can fly onto the surface of Mars, steer at zero gravity through space, drive a rover navigating over craters, and experience key scenes from the hit film in a 360-degree virtual reality environment. On a starlit beach in Turkey you meet a Syrian family about to embark on their second perilous attempt to cross the sea to Greece.