Virtual Reality has a stigma that it is a loner's activity which isolates its user in a world of his own. Oculus is aware of that stigma and is actively working on a solution.
Oculus Story Studio is one of the first virtual reality movies studio. The studio deputed its first short movie "Lost" to critical acclaim earlier this year at Sundance. The director's cut of the movie was released a few days ago with a slight addition: it can be viewed simultaneously by several viewers.
Lost: Director's Cut viewers take the role of fireflies inside the movie and they can see and interact with each other within its virtual world. Oculus Story studio team call it a "shared experience" and they believe that it is a determining factor for virtual reality future.
"VR is very isolationist: You put it on and you forget your surroundings; you forget the people around you," said Max Planck, Story Studio's supervising technical director. "We wanna tell stories that people can come out of it together and have water-cooler moments. Like you're around the campfire and someone's telling you a story, or you go to a movie or a theater performance and you see it with other people, and you come out of it and you want to talk with people."
