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Facebook has virtual reality illustration and tool to Iñigo Quilez, the developer who created the app. Quilez has formed a company called Smoothstep and rebranded the tool as , which is now on the Oculus Store.
The will be removed from the Oculus Store on October 18th. It'll still work for those who downloaded it, but Oculus won't support the app any longer. Users will need to manually upload creators to Oculus Media Studio manually rather than through Quill as well.
Facebook says Quill content shared on Oculus Media Studio or Oculus TV will still be available on Oculus for now. The Quill Theater app will remain on the store — it will be renamed as VR Animation Player next month. The Oculus team also noted that Smoothstep has both Quill Theater’s IMM immersive content distribution file format (IMM) and an IMM player.
Quilez during a 2015 hackathon to aid production on Oculus Story Studio's VR short, Dear Angelica. The film was the first to be hand-painted completely inside of a VR environment. Other filmmakers have adopted Quill, with being screened at major film festivals such as Sundance and Venice.
Some major companies are expected to enter or push deeper into the VR and mixed reality space in the coming years, such as and . As such, developers of VR creation tools such as Quill have a big opportunity for growth in the medium term.
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The will be removed from the Oculus Store on October 18th. It'll still work for those who downloaded it, but Oculus won't support the app any longer. Users will need to manually upload creators to Oculus Media Studio manually rather than through Quill as well.
Facebook says Quill content shared on Oculus Media Studio or Oculus TV will still be available on Oculus for now. The Quill Theater app will remain on the store — it will be renamed as VR Animation Player next month. The Oculus team also noted that Smoothstep has both Quill Theater’s IMM immersive content distribution file format (IMM) and an IMM player.
Quilez during a 2015 hackathon to aid production on Oculus Story Studio's VR short, Dear Angelica. The film was the first to be hand-painted completely inside of a VR environment. Other filmmakers have adopted Quill, with being screened at major film festivals such as Sundance and Venice.
Some major companies are expected to enter or push deeper into the VR and mixed reality space in the coming years, such as and . As such, developers of VR creation tools such as Quill have a big opportunity for growth in the medium term.
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