While the Oculus Rift VR headset is certainly an exciting prospect for video games, its creators are also out to prove it can do some special stuff for movies. An animated short film titled Henry had me inside the brightly decorated home of a hedgehog celebrating his birthday. But there are no guests, you see, because Henry’s spiky body stabs anyone he hugs. This short isn’t about wonder or horror like the Oculus Story Studio’s previous effort, Lost, but instead generating emotions in the viewer.
“I started developing Henry with the idea of exploring empathy in VR. How you feel for a character in a VR space,” director Ramiro Lopez Dau, a former animator at Pixar, said. “I think it’s one of the most basic questions of storytelling -- How do you connect with the character? Is it possible? How is it going to feel? -- because you are in the same space as the characters.”
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“I started developing Henry with the idea of exploring empathy in VR. How you feel for a character in a VR space,” director Ramiro Lopez Dau, a former animator at Pixar, said. “I think it’s one of the most basic questions of storytelling -- How do you connect with the character? Is it possible? How is it going to feel? -- because you are in the same space as the characters.”
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