Milk: VR format is fluid and constantly evolving, unlike static cinema
Chris Milk · a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience · Jan 2, 2019 · at 18:03
Chris Milk, founder of Within, explains how rapid technical updates in virtual reality continually redefine story formats compared to traditional motion pictures.
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“What's different about virtual reality is the format is fluid. So you, and you see it changing on a bi-monthly basis where you're now able to tell a new kind of story because the actual format has changed.”
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