Meta has revived its VR Animation Participant (2019) with the brand new launch of Theater Elsewhere, a contemporary iteration of the free animation participant app that enables customers to expertise immersive, hand-painted worlds created with in VR artwork app Quill by Smoothstep (2021).
Meta says the newly revamped Theater Elsewhere app features a new person interface for simpler navigation, sooner efficiency, and enhanced controls, designed to supply a seamless person expertise.
It additionally packs in over 50 VR-animated shorts, curated picks, and greater than 2,400 user-generated content material items, which you’ll discover extra deeply in ‘Free Fly Mode’, letting you view the creations from any angle.
Supporting all Quest units, together with the unique 2019-era Quest, Theater Elsewhere was internally developed by a small group since July 2023, composed of Artwork Director and legendary artist Goro Fujita.
Fujita, a DreamWorks Animation veteran, can also be recognized for his work on the now defunct Oculus Story Studios on VR animated brief movies Henry (2015) and chapter 1 of Wolves within the Partitions (2018), in addition to a large slate of VR animations, a few of which you’ll see within the Theater Elsewhere app proper now.
You possibly can learn the total Q&A over on the Meta weblog, which dives deeper into Fujita’s passions, previous and current. In the meantime, Meta says it expects Theater Elsewhere to proceed rising, with extra content material updates and new options deliberate for the long run.