Meta’s taking a extra VR-aligned strategy to Halloween this 12 months, with a vary of latest, immersive horror experiences obtainable to Meta Quest customers.
The primary is a brand new ‘Haunted Home’, 180-degree VR expertise, created by director Eli Roth, who additionally directed ‘Cabin Fever’ and the ‘Hostel’ film sequence.
The movie, starring Vanessa Hudgens, takes you thru a horror home social gathering, the place individuals are seemingly changed into dolls. That’s an enormous nope from me.
Meta’s additionally received a brand new, four-episode ‘Scream Park’ mini-series in VR, starring Grace Van Dien from ‘Stranger Issues’.
Meta’s additionally internet hosting an array of different Halloween VR activations, together with:
- Tokyo Case: This two-part, 360-degree brief Japanese horror movie is taking Meta Quest TV by storm. Episode 1 is offered now, and Episode 2 launches October 21.
- Meta Horizon Worlds Drive-In: Expertise a Halloween-themed drive-in film streaming a group of monster horror flicks from Crypt TV.
- Alien Apocalypse: A 360-degree VR video primarily based on H.G. Wells’s The Warfare of the Worlds.
- Pennywise the Dancing Clown: Everybody’s favourite clown is simply dying to fulfill you in VR. Filmed on location on the Derry Pageant and Funhouse in Derry, Maine.
There’s additionally this NOPE VR experience in Horizon Worlds.
Look, it’s early days for Horizon Worlds, Meta’s extra interactive VR area, so no, the expertise right here doesn’t look nearly as good, or horrifying, as these different VR activations. But it surely’ll get higher over time. Most likely.
Both method, you have got a full scope right here of what VR has to supply – horrifying, immersive, polished VR experiences, and extra interactive, however nonetheless a little bit clunky, Horizon Worlds choices.
And you may count on Meta to proceed to place extra emphasis on VR activations like this shifting ahead, as it really works to advertise the metaverse, and construct hype for its VR instruments.
They could possibly be price a glance, particularly for these attempting to get a greater understanding of the place issues are headed, and what’s doable in Meta’s VR environments.
You may be taught extra about Meta’s Halloween VR experiences right here.
