If you still haven't dipped your toes into the world of virtual reality, the Academy Awards just gave everyone another reason to pay attention to the emerging format. Google's VR film Pearl has been ...

People were waiting in lines for over an hour to see Pearl both at SIGGRAPH and VRLA, which is one of the best narrative VR experiences that I’ve seen so far. The central character in the story is a ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Oscar winner Patrick Osborne (Disney's "Feast") discusses the back and forth between making a VR and movie experience. Patrick Osborne definitely likes making animated home movie-like experiences as ...

Immersive this. Virtual reality that. Interactivity and narrative immersion have emerged as the new frontier of animation, and along the way, they’ve become buzzwords for everything exciting and cool.

Pearl, the seventh interactive experience in Google’s Spotlight Stories program, premiered last month on YouTube’s 360-degree player and the Google Spotlight Stories iOS app (both of which are ...

Pearl (2016), a 360 animated short film from director Patrick Osborne and Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), has landed an Academy Award nomination for this year’s best animated ...