Spielberg warns VR will rule the future at Comic-Con
SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 22: Director Steven Spielberg attends the Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation during Comic-Con International 2017 at San Diego Convention Center on July 22, 2017 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
"The only reason I say it is dangerous is because it gives the viewer a lot of latitude not to take direction from the storytellers but make their own choices of where to look.
"I just hope it doesn't forget the story when it starts enveloping us in a world that we can see all around us and make our own choices to look at."
Now he seems to have, if not changed his mind, at least embraced the future.
The 70-year-old director now sees VR as the opening of new possibilities, where humans are able to do "anything you can possibly imagine".
Directing Ready Player One, Spielberg was faced with 80s nostalgia and pop references related to his own work in the past, and said he feared being "vilified for some kind of grand act of grand larceny of vanity".
Ready Player One premieres 30 March 2018.
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