Astrea, the studio, and the publishers behind many VR story experiences, sphere, Astraand Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantomreleased an interactive VR experience with Quest and PC VR headsets.
Called passengerwith four chapters, a 40-minute interactive experience, you can become one of four characters, experience internal monologues and interact with the environment both with your hands and voice.
It was developed by Canada-based Studio Coosin Films and France-based Wrest Proquits Fraise. passenger It tells each story in a variety of styles and offers a variety of visuals, including oil paint, watercolor, pencils, colored pencils, immersive videos and more.
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“In this experience, you can become each of the four passengers, where everyone has their own personal quest. The course of each story is influenced according to what they say, where they see, and what they do with their hands. You are the one who decides all of that. Characters were created by aggressively scanning the four actors. After that, they were equipped and animated through motion capture.”
meanwhile passenger It’s new for consumer headsets, and in fact it will be appearing on the International Festival Circuit shortly after its completion in 2021.
This experience won the Best Immersive Experience – Fiction Award at the Canada Screen Awards (2022) and was selected as a finalist at the Prix Gémeaux (2022), Prix Numix (2021) and VR Experience of the Year at the VR Awards (2021).
You can find passenger The Horizon store for Quest 2 and above, and Steam for PC VR headsets, costs $5.
