Before the invention of television, the family usually huddled together to listen to the radio. This was the favorite pastime for people at the time, but it would be strange to us now. Before the radio broadcast, people would flood into the cinema and watch silent movies starring favorite actors such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Nowadays, there are many large-sized 4K resolution televisions set around the living room, which will surprise us.
VR Noir
Science and technology reform will promote the evolution of entertainment. VR Noir, the newly released immersive video, shows that virtual reality (VR) will change the way we view. In the future, we will feel weird and passive on the sofa watching TV as weird.
VR Noir is a 360-degree panoramic movie with interactive elements produced by the Australian Start VR Studio. This film has all the elements of the same kind of movie: messy former police PI, mysterious deadly woman and even more bleak murder case to be solved. However, in this new immersive film, all these familiar elements have achieved innovative breakthroughs and give people a new look.
Let's be clear: If VR Noir is just an ordinary TV program, we wouldn't think it's wonderful. But after watching the movie myself, I thought that the actor performed well, but the performance obviously felt a bit amateurish, the plot was relatively thin, and the storyline was not so ups and downs. But for this particular film, the most important thing is not the arrangement and content of the film's storyline, but the way it uses VR technology.
As the story of "VR Noir" unfolded, we gradually became part of the story. You can choose to ask more questions to the customer or accept it with pleasure. When you put your head on your head, you are like holding a reconnaissance camera. In particular, you are experiencing the film story as the hero, not just watching it. Through this way of viewing, the moviegoers stepped forward like a torch and explored the film's story.
This combination of interactive, immersive and film is likely to become the future realization of entertainment. Nathan Anderson, producer of "VR Noir", expressed at the official launch of his app that he was pursuing this new production method.
“We want to explore ways of coexisting the VR experience of movies and games,†Anderson said. “Can you participate in the production of a film story when watching a movie? My career pursuit is to find storytelling, game design, and interaction. The combination of factors."
VR Noir can now be downloaded for free on Google Cardboard on Android or IOS clients or on the Oculus Shop of Samsung Gear VR.