Meta is reintroducing its VR Animation Participant as Theater Elsewhere, now house to among the finest non-interactive VR experiences you possibly can have on Quest.
The overhaul of Meta’s VR Animation Participant offers Quest headset homeowners a contemporary cause to find the storytelling energy in linear hand-drawn VR art work. Meta handed off the creativity app Quill to its creator years in the past, with the PC-based software program permitting artists utilizing Contact controllers to sketch out whole tales straight in VR with their arms. In the meantime, Quill’s counterpart on Quest headsets presents a approach to view these creations. The viewer app was first known as Quill Theater, then VR Animation Participant, and now it is known as Theater Elsewhere with a easy one-handed distant management system.
The overhaul introduced at this time consists of six immersive environments you possibly can set because the background for the app whereas looking, and, from those I checked out, they’re arguably higher than a few of Meta’s own residence environments. The app guarantees greater than 2400 immersive animated works as nicely with a freefly mode to maneuver via the experiences and a easy distant management interface to progress via narratives.
Whereas the tear-jerking story Expensive Angelica is not within the app, we extremely suggest giving the expertise a glance as nicely as a result of it’s a standout instance of the sorts of works which you can make with Quill, and much like the sorts of tales you possibly can expertise contained in the Theater Elsewhere app.
Theater Elsewhere requires the usage of a tracked controller and may be discovered without cost on the Meta Horizon Retailer, with compatibility listed for all Quest generations. When you’re involved in including your individual works to the app, you need to use the Meta Quest Media Studio to add it.
