Virtual reality production companies create several different kinds of experience. You might want viewers to feel present in a documentary, practise a workplace task or explore a product. The right starting point is what your audience should be able to see and do. High5VR helps businesses and creative teams turn that intended outcome into a practical production brief.
What kind of VR experience do you need?
A 360° film places the viewer at a recorded camera position and lets them look around. It can suit a real location, performance or documentary. Looking around a film does not automatically let someone walk through it, pick up objects or change the story.
An interactive VR application is built around actions. A learner might examine equipment, choose a response or repeat a task with feedback. A product demonstration might let customers explore a virtual object. These requirements involve different work from recording a scene.
What should you ask a production company to show you?
Ask for examples relevant to your intended experience. A polished conventional video does not, by itself, show how a studio handles 360° sound, headset controls or interactive decisions. Where possible, review suitable work using the type of device your audience will use.
Discuss the team's role in each example: filming, sound, animation, software development and delivery can involve different contributors. This makes a portfolio easier to assess.
How does High5VR approach a project?
We start with the audience, the intended result and the setting in which the experience will be used. From there we can discuss filming, an animated environment or interactive development. You do not need to arrive with a technical specification; describing the experience you have in mind gives us a useful starting point.
For workplace learning, the training specialists supply and approve the subject content. For a creative production, the story and the viewer's position within it shape the approach. The format follows the purpose.
What should the quotation cover?
Ask for the content, supported devices, review stages and finished deliverables to be written down. Clarify who supplies locations, approved information and creative assets. Installation, ownership, usage rights and support also need agreement.
Compare proposals against the same scope. A film file, a headset application and a managed installation are different deliverables, even when they are all described as VR.
What is a useful first step?
Tell us who the experience is for, what they should get from it and where they will use it. An example scene or task helps us identify a focused first version. High5VR can then discuss an appropriate production route and the information needed to scope it.
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