The BBC has put a programme, “We Wait”, an animate film about the dangerous boat journey from Turkey to Greece made by migrants, on the Oculus store so that it can be viewed on the Oculus Rift.
“This film going live on the Oculus store for the Rift opens the film up to a wider audience, and caps off a big year for VR at the BBC, as we continue to explore the potential this emerging medium has to inform, educate and entertain,” said BBC R&D executive producer, Zillah Watson.
“Our VR experiments this year have enabled us to look at the role the BBC should play at this early stage, raising important questions over how storytelling, pacing, direction, subtitling, sound and picture quality are all affected.”
BBC also gave the UK premiere to a new VR film depicting a Christmas Day fire, called Fire Rescue, at the London Fire Brigade’s new pop-up museum in Lambeth, London.
