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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the immersive-aliens-would-be-a-nightmare-made-real dept.

VR is about to get a creative filmmaker's touch.

Ridley Scott's RSA Films production company is launching a new imprint "dedicated exclusively to the creative development and production of VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality) and mixed media." It's called RSA VR.

RSA VR's first project is a VR Experience for "Alien: Covenant," in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox and Technicolour.

"We have been heavily involved in VR for the past few years, and having a dedicated stand-alone division underscores our commitment to immersive media in both the brand and entertainment space," RSA Films' president Jules Daly said.


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  • (Score: 2) by theluggage on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:41PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:41PM (#496569)

    You might be joking, but I think you made a really insightful comment there.

    Since when have those two things been incompatible?

    It's not exactly a new idea - back in the 1990s and the first VR craze, Ben Elton (in This Other Eden I think) wrote something along the lines of "The ancient Greeks could have had interactive entertainment if they'd wanted to - all they had to do was hop up on stage and join in- but they were clever bastards and realised that it would fuck up the story"... Even before that, I give you the cringeworthy interactive video scene in Fahrenheit 451.

    The question tech enthusiasts never ask is "what stopped this idea catching on when it was last trending 10/20/30 years ago?" - the assumption is always that (basically) more pixels will fix it. However, look at cinema - the early movies were horribly primitive, flickery, black and white, silent, filmed with a fixed camera etc. but they became popular anyway. Ditto early computer games. I suspect that if VR had something magical to offer, we'd all have bought bulky headsets in the 90s (free packet of anti-nausea pills with every pair) and put up with the blocky graphics...

    Still, if Ridley Scott knows how to do one thing, its how to put beautiful pictures on the screen... Maybe just wandering around Blade Runner's cityscape or exploring Acidalia Planitia would be entertaining enough. Not sure I want to experience Alien in virtual reality, though... but there you have a movie that generated its scares by not letting you get a close look at the monster...

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