Go Behind the Scenes of Afterlife VR With Two New Blog Posts and a Crew Interview

Signal Space Lab has published two blog posts and a dev diary taking us behind the scenes of their upcoming VR experience, Afterlife.

The first outlines how the creation process was formulated by combining elements of filmmaking, theatre, and video game development. With a rich character-driven story shot in live-action, but one that unveils itself through branching narrative techniques, Afterlife is on the cutting edge of VR storytelling. Read about how all these elements came together in the first blog post:

What does it mean to be physically present in life, but not wholly there. A discussion on that idea as the inspiration behind Afterlife can be found in the developer diary on YouTube:

On the technological side, the team at Signal Space Lab could not find an available camera setup that suited their vision, and thus decided to build the Crane, a camera motion system specialized for VR filmmaking. A longer description of this can be found in the second blog post:

18. Dezember 2018, von Markus 'Markus S.' Schaffarz