Lionsgate Teams Up With Wevr for ‘John Wick’ Virtual Reality Experience
Lionsgate teamed up with Venice, Calif.-based VR startup Wevr to produce the “John Wick” VR experience, which lets users become Wick, and explore the Continental Hotel on his behalf. In the movie, the hotel is a safe haven for assassins, a kind of base camp that they can use to rest their bones and prepare for their next missions without the fear of work-related injuries. In the VR experience, it’s also a place of mystery, in which users have to figure out how to bribe the concierge, pick up dubious clues, and finally dodge bullets as someone breaks the Continental’s code of conduct and attacks their hotel room.
The fully animated VR experience makes use of the Vive’s motion tracking technology, allowing users to freely move around within a 10-by-10 feet space — which is enough to actually walk into that mysterious elevator or check out the hotel suite. Oh, and you’ll also have to get on your knees to escape the bullets once the attack starts. The experience also incorporates the Vive’s two handheld controllers, adding the ability to touch things, and for example move the lever in the hotel’s virtual elevator to get it to go up and down.
Lionsgate is getting ready to launch a full-blown VR video game based on the “John Wick” franchise next year, and it also recently started to film a sequel to the movie.
See the full story here: http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/john-wick-vr-virtual-reality-lionsgate-wevr-1201631538/