05-05-2017 01:35 via feedproxy.google.com

Facebook shuts down its Oculus Story Studio team

Facebook is getting out of the narrative-based VR experience business.
Oculus VR content boss Jason Rubin revealed today that the company is closing its internal Oculus Story Studio, which is the division that worked on non-interactive 360-degree short films for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets. Story Studio is likely best known for the Henry short that tells the story of a spiky hedgehog that likes to hug people despite this prickly parts. Now, instead of building that kind of conte
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