During the production of the remake of The Lion King Jon Favreau also used VR, as a way for his cinematographer to figure out where he wanted to place his virtual cameras.
The actors also used the tools as a way to better understand their characters and better inhabit those roles, rather than simply providing voices.
While VR gaming is more popular now than it has ever been, the concept isn’t quite mainstream yet.
Having said that, the same tools that allow you to enter a video game are becoming useful in other industries as well, and filmmaking has begun to adopt these tools in new ways.
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