Facebook axes virtual reality film studio

[tangor]

Proving yet again that goggled nausea is a hard sell, Facebook's virtual reality arm Oculus on Thursday said it would shut down Story Studio, its VR production unit.

"We're now entering the next chapter of VR development, where new creators enter the market in anticipation of adoption and growth, and we've been looking at the best way to allocate our resources to create an impact on the ecosystem," said Jason Rubin, VP of content, in a blog post announcing the closure.

"After careful consideration, we've decided to shift our focus away from internal content creation to support more external production."

[theregister.co.uk...]

These headsets just don't seem to have real world traction. Gamers, however, claim to love them. I wouldn't know about that since the "newest" game I have on my system is Doom 2.

[keyplyr]

User end VR isn't that great unless you invest some money. I use Samsung's VR Gear headset to play games from my 4k TV. The games run from online servers. Not bad but the quality is so so...

[engine]

I tried it once and felt underwhelmed.
Perhaps the decision is because of the cost of running the studio and the inability to turn that into a profit. There are plenty of independent creators that could do just as well from their own content.