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Prediction Held up
Stromberg: VR distribution will shift from download stores to subscription models
“Initially where you know when you have sites like Steam and you know, Oculus site and all these will be the first places that you're able to sort of download, but I can see very clearly a time when you will have this sort of Netflix like library to choose from…”
Prediction Held up
Stromberg: VRC is developing gaze-driven branching VR narratives
“Where we're going now is we are doing branching narratives, so, which is really cool. So you can be going through a story being told to you, and depending on where you look, take different paths and different stories.”
Prediction Held up
Stromberg: Virtual reality content will eventually adopt motion rating systems
“You know, I think that, that eventually we'll probably see some sort of motion rating system.”
Assertion Contradicted
Stromberg: VRC completed an 18-minute VR project with Steven Spielberg
“We just completed an 18 minute piece with Steven Spielberg who, you know.”
Assertion Supported
Stromberg: Avatar was mostly filmed via motion capture in Playa del Rey
“So actually, the entire movie, there was a section of the movie that was shot in New Zealand, which were actual sets and actual actors, but the majority of the film was actually all motion capture, which means that all the actors had a motion capture suit on, …”
Assertion Supported
Stromberg: Avatar production allowed real-time visualization of digital characters
“And we were seeing back real time the actors as their avatar character.”
Assertion Supported
Stromberg: 85% of the movie Gravity was CG
“85% of that movie was CG anyways.”
Assertion Supported
Stromberg designed Avatar's organic world while Rick Carter designed military elements
“Later on a guy by the name of Rick Carter came on who was, we co-production design. He did the human elements, the military base, and I did the organic world.”