‘Heroes’ star and ‘Lion King’ music producer invest in Limitless virtual reality character startup
Limitless, a virtual reality startup created by a former Pixar and Bungie character designer, has closed its first round of seed funding from investors including music and film producer Jay Rifkin, who worked on “The Lion King” film’s original score; and Masi Oka, a game startup leader and former Industrial Light & Magic digital effects artist better known as the character Hiro from the NBC series “Heroes.”
Limitless debuted its technology at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, along with a VR experience produced on its platform by the company’s first publicly-announced customer, the VR film company Motional. In the experience, a character named Gary the Gull asks questions and, using Limitless technology, understands user responses, reacting based on a preset script, depending on what users say and do.
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