It seems that problems continue to pursue the Oculus company. Not so long ago we told you that it was left by the founder Palmer Lucky moreover and the court recognized the company of intellectual property, guilty of theft, having obliged to pay to claimants 500 million dollars. This time the management of Facebook made tough decision on closing of the internal studio Story Studio which is responsible for creation of short VR movies and other entertaining content from a narrative component. Today Jason Rubin, the former founder of Naughty Dog studio, and nowadays being the vice president of Oculus for the direction of the user content reported about it to the press.
The Story Studio was founded in 2015, and the short film Lost about the huge robot lost in the forest as if left the animated film Iron Giant became its first project. Then there was a children's interactive animated film about a charming hedgehog by the name of Henry who brought to studio a prestigious gold figurine of Emmie. Surprisingly beautiful story about mother and the daughter under the name Dear Angelica in which postscoring the actress Geena Davies took part became the last Story Studio project today. This animated film was completely drawn by hand in virtual reality on own software of Quill created by specialists of studio (anyone can download it, by the way).
"Two years ago, at dawn of modern VR technologies, the Facebook company based Story Studio to show all infinite opportunities of a new form of visionary art: narrations in real time. Specialists of studio created a series of short films which pushed many famous directors on trying absolutely new VR direction. Now we are on the threshold of new chapter in development of virtual reality therefore to us it is vital to redistribute resources to create the most comfortable ecosystem. After long discussions we made the decision to displace focus from internal development of content on support of external studios. For this reason the Story Studio should be closed", & #8212; the official press release says.