Meta is reintroducing its VR Animation Participant as Theater Elsewhere, now house to a number of the greatest non-interactive VR experiences you may 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 total tales instantly in VR with their arms. In the meantime, Quill’s counterpart on Quest headsets provides a strategy 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 right this moment contains six immersive environments you may 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 effectively with a freefly mode to maneuver by way of the experiences and a easy distant management interface to progress by way of narratives.
Whereas the tear-jerking story Pricey Angelica is not within the app, we extremely advocate giving the expertise a glance as effectively as a result of it’s a standout instance of the sorts of works which you could make with Quill, and just like the varieties of tales you may 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. Should you’re serious about including your individual works to the app, you should use the Meta Quest Media Studio to add it.