Jim Henson’s Muppets may very well be coming to VR following talks with Disney—probably providing a clue on the type of content material Meta reportedly hopes to carry to its subsequent VR headset.
Disney held an occasion on June 14th celebrating the seventieth anniversary of The Jim Henson Firm. The occasion was additionally a bittersweet sendoff for one in every of Disney’s Hollywood Studios most well-known long-running sights, Muppet* Imaginative and prescient 3D.
As reported by Disney fan website Laughing Place, The Jim Henson Firm CEO Lisa Henson introduced on the occasion that, whereas Disney closed the bodily attraction a couple of days prior, the corporate was now “exploring methods to protect the movie and different elements of the expertise for followers to take pleasure in sooner or later.”
This, Henson mentioned, included discussions with Disney about bringing the attraction-based movie to VR, with Laughing Firm reporting that the Muppet* Imaginative and prescient 3D was captured utilizing VR cameras.
This follows a Wall Avenue Journal report from earlier this month alleging that Meta is at present searching for branded immersive content material from corporations equivalent to Disney, A24, and smaller manufacturing studios.
The WSJ report maintains Meta is hoping to signal timed-exclusive episodic and standalone immersive video content material geared in direction of its subsequent VR headset.
Codenamed ‘Loma,’ the reported system is alleged to function a design just like a pair of eyeglasses that connects to a tethered puck, which is described as having larger compute energy than its Quest 3 sequence of headsets, and a value of “lower than $1,000.”
