Jon Favreau says that incorporating Virtual Reality in The Lion King production process made it feel more like a real film. The director says that he wanted to experience the environments in the upcoming Disney animated feature as he would in a traditional film, so he built them in VR. To access the 'sets,' the film's crew and voice cast - including Beyoncé, who voices Nala - donned headsets so they could effectively go on location, look around, and even have meetings within the 360 degree VR spaces, where they were all represented by humanoid avatars. “The changes in technology are going to continue to improve and make it possible to make really interesting, different kinds of films, and put the tools of film-making and animation into more people’s hands, which I think would be very good,” Favreau says.
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