Oculus Rift Is Hollywood's Next Medium

When Facebook bought Oculus Rift back in March, Hollywood took notice. Though accelerated development of the virtual-reality headset will be largely driven by video games, the idea of strapping immersive movies or TV shows to your head suddenly seemed inevitable.

But creating gaming content for VR looks easy compared with the challenge of capturing the real world for viewing through the mask. How do you block your actors? Should the camera move?

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And what kind of camera would you even shoot on in the first place?

Palo Alto-based startup Jaunt has been quietly building just such a platform, which it hopes it can deliver to virtual reality headsets not just immersive cinematic-style narrative content, but live events as well. With a new $6.8 million capital raise, a full working demo and meetings scheduled all over Los Angeles, the company — which has been toiling for months in "stealth" mode — has de-cloaked and is ready to mingle. Read more...