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FESTIVAL : MAKE VR SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST A ROLLER COASTER RIDE
VR has been used mostly for horror video gaming, tourism and roller coaster simulation, but Przemek Drops Drosik, CEO and Co-Founder of Locomotive, showed in his session, Make VR Something More than Just a Roller Coaster Ride, that VR can be used for much more.
Locomotive has been using VR technology to create cinematic VR, as in the film, Warsaw Rising, the first feature film in Poland using VR Technology. The film is 17 minutes of VR immersion in which the viewer feels he is in the story. It has received numerous awards including Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, Honorary Award of Lubin Film Festival for groundbreaking film form, official opening screening at KORT Festival, Film Spring Open, Polish Television Theaters Festival in New York, X Film Festival NNW & DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival 2018.
The film first takes the viewer through a dark tunnel hiding from bullet fire heard above, to emerge in a war-torn street with tanks, guns and Nazis. One scene has a soldier approach the viewer and smashing the end of his rifle into the viewer, which Drosik later explains is a mechanism used to demonstrate teleportation in VR.
There are three ways in which the viewer can be engaged in VR, Drosik explains.
“You can be an observer so no one sees him or can detect him. The viewer is kind of an invisible ghost. You can also be a witness so the viewer is physically unnoticed or you can be a participant which takes an active role. This is kind of like breaking the fourth wall.”
He adds, “When writing the script, we had to change it so we could introduce the viewer into the world of VR. We are focusing on the story in front of us. That kind of gradation of the VR experience allows the viewer to take part in the story.”
This can be a tricky task as Drosik explains, “If you see the camera, the camera sees you - and the post production guys will hunt you down.”
23 March, 2019
