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How Hollywood is embracing virtual reality
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Jun 1, 2015
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How Hollywood is embracing virtual reality
Tech companies around the world are building their own virtual reality devices to cash in on entertainment's latest trend, but how will Hollywood use the tech?
In this Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, show attendees play a video game wearing  Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show(CES), in Las Vegas. Many backers who helped it raise more than $2.4 million through Kickstarter in 2012 were shocked last week when Oculus announced it was selling itself to social media company Facebook for $2 billion.
This January 7, 2014 file photo shows attendees play a video game wearing the Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show(CES), in Las Vegas.
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Tech companies around the world are building their own virtual reality devices to cash in on entertainment's latest trend, but how will Hollywood use the tech?

Virtual Reality. Facebook's doing it, Google's doing it, smart phone provider Samsung is doing it... they're all investing in devices that'll give consumers that perspective altering experience.  

And now these tech giants are looking to Hollywood companies to produce content for them, but the process is much different than making regular movies.

Mark Wilson has been writing about this for Fast Company and he joins Alex Cohen in studio for a conversation on the topic.