(2019-04-03) Oculus Timewarp Game Has Live Actors

Oculus' timewarp game has live actors, and it's nuts. The Under Presents takes place in a sprawling absurdist world, but its home base is a nightclub-like space in the hull of a hulking overturned ship, where whimsical stage acts perform (often played by live actors in VR).

a new kind of social virtual-reality game that Facebook's Oculus is previewing this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

When it's released later this year, The Under Presents will teleport you from your living room to this sprawling absurdist universe that mixes VR and stories-within-stories with immersive theater and remote live actors

The Under Presents will be released this year as a paid experience for Oculus Quest, the company's standalone VR headset expected in the spring for $399. Oculus hasn't determined its exact release date or price.

Piehole, an experimental theater collective, has been developing the acting side of the project's different live and recorded acts that come and go. The narrative experience was developed by Tender Claws, creators of the game Virtual Virtual Reality and the augmented reality app Tendar that appeared at Sundance last year. (see Diamond Age ractors)