Today my team at Holospark released a free preview of our current virtual reality project. Séance: The Unquiet is a ghost story in VR for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. The preview is now available for download from the Oculus Store and from Steam.
This project is not a videogame. It’s very much a movie that uses virtual reality as its native medium. We built it using the Unreal game engine with a lot of videogame tools and techniques, but all in the service of delivering a cinematic narrative.
About VR Cinematic Storytelling
I’ve written a series of four blog posts on Gamasutra sharing what we learned:
Part Two: Music & Sound Design
Part Three: Character Presence
Press
The excellent VR industry website UploadVR posted a really thoughtful look at what we’re creating:
Séance: The Unquiet is a harrowing ghost story focused on you
We put a ton of work and experimentation into reaching this first preview and I’m very happy with the results.