How director Jon Favreau made the leap to VR with Gnomes & Goblins

The first time filmmaker Jon Favreau tried virtual reality, it wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience. "I came here and one of the things they showed me was TheBlu, which was very overwhelming to me," he says. We’re talking in the offices of Wevr, the Venice, California-based studio that developed that experience — one that sends users to a sunken ship in the murky ocean depths. "I'm not a roller-coaster guy, so the intensity was a bit much for me. It took me three tries to get t