The Future of VR/Conclusion

Shari Frilot, Founder/Chief Curator of New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival

I don’t think virtual reality is going to reduce into a gadget form, and I do hope it stays young for a while because it’s just absolutely energizing to view what’s happening on the creator scene of this medium. It’s almost as if the creators who are dying to tell stories that they couldn’t before, either because they were shut out or they didn’t have the right medium, met a medium that would provoke them to push themselves even further and it’s just exhilarating. It’s like being on an anti-gravity ride watching this stuff grow.

It’s only been five years since the “rebirth” of virtual reality.

VR is a medium that is not just storytelling, ...

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