Facebook’s Oculus forms in-house virtual-reality film studio

A man wearing an Oculus VR headset demonstrates a first person shooter game in a Virtuix Omni virtual reality system at the International Consumer Electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on 6 January 2015. Photo: Reuters
New York: Facebook Incorporation’s Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and premiered its first short piece at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday.
Tapping talent from both Pixar, the animation studio behind computer graphics imagery (CGI) films ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Monsters Inc,’ and the video gaming world, Oculus’ Story Studio will develop film content for virtual reality and advise other filmmakers seeking to try the technology.