{"id":33679,"date":"2020-04-14T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newimages-hub.com\/?p=33679"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:15:20","slug":"interview-louis-cacciuttolo-vrchat-vrroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newimages-hub.com\/en\/interview-louis-cacciuttolo-vrchat-vrroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Confinement interview with Louis Cacciuttolo, founder of VRrOOm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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During these times of confinement, let\u2019s give the floor to our friends and partners. To assess life under the current crisis together, but also to try and imagine the formats and tools mutations of \u201cpost-Covid-19\u201d new images.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VRrOOm company, founded by Louis Cacciuttolo, has been by our side since the beginning of the NewImages Festival adventure\u2026 How are you living this strange moment in time? What does it change for you, right now and in the long-term?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Louis Cacciuttolo, founder of VRrOOm <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“A huge opportunity and at the same time, a threat”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Who are you, what is VRrOOm, and what is your main activity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always sought to make the emotion of performing art accessible to the widest possible audience. Those who live in remote areas not everybody has access to spectacles, to theatre, to concerts \u2026 with the advent of VR, I figured it was really the ideal tool to bring that to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our main activity evolved over time. I first created the website VRrOOm.buzz<\/strong> [1] four years ago. At first it was a marketing tool to evangelize and create a communauty around VR, to discuss entertainment, culture, lifestyle and creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressively, with the evolution of technology, I was able to propose more interesting things. In 2018, in collaboration with the Forum of images<\/strong>, our first partner, we launched the application VRrOOm<\/strong> VR\/AR 2 in 1 for the screening of 360\u00b0 movies and augmented reality content. Since then, twenty or so partner festivals present their program month after month on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VRrOOm<\/strong> world on VRChat<\/strong> [2], which we just launched is an extension in 6 DoF – 6 degrees of freedom – of this first VRrOOm<\/strong> platform. The 6 DoF – 6 degrees of freedom – allows people to meet, exchange, move around, grab objects etc\u2026 what the previous application did not allow for. The Social VR universe VRrOOm <\/strong>on VRChat<\/strong> platform allows people to meet up in a virtual space: to chat, dance, participate in events\u2026 at any time of day or night, especially right now. With the Covid-19, there\u2019s around 10 000 people at the same time on the platform, which is really huge for VR!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 weeks ago, when this confinement period was announced, had you seen this crisis coming?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw in early January that there was this crisis in China, a country where I lived for a long time and where I have strong ties to friends and family. I know practically everything that goes on there on a day-to-day basis and so I immediately got informed on the effects that this crisis was already having on Chinese internet users. We immediately saw an explosion of online video gaming, of mobile applications \u2026 I told myself that if the pandemic was to get generalized, to get worse, it would certainly have an impact on VR, so I put the work in to be ready in case it would happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I planned on launching VRrOOm<\/strong> on the VRChat<\/strong> platform in September 2021, so we speeded things up a bit and it launched! A lot of functionalities still have to be added before September but we still estimated that now was a good time to launch it, precisely to help this captive audience to have entertainment alternatives, to shake things up and breathe a little\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n