At GDC this year, Epic Games has teamed up with Weta Digital to present a virtual reality experience based on The Hobbit films — in which you confront the dragon, Smaug.
“We’ve reimagined it for VR,” says Alisdair Coull, Weta Digital’s head of R&D, “You’re in the treasure hall as Smaug emerges.” The goal was to “try to capture the feel of being in the film — where you are there.”
The demo uses Oculus VR’s Crescent Bay headset and a high-end Nvidia GPU, but it uses film assets “reworked … in some ways,” Coull says. “We took our facial animation technology and put it in there.”
“We’d been working on taking our high-end assets… and making them real-time. It seemed like a good time to see what it was all about.”
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