{"id":1237047,"date":"2025-03-05T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237047"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:06:45","slug":"lauded-vr-storytelling-studio-astrea-releases-latest-project-on-quest-pc-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237047","title":{"rendered":"Lauded VR Storytelling Studio Astrea Releases Latest Project on Quest &amp; PC VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-640x360-1.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; clear: both; max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-640x360-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-125x70.jpg 125w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-681x383.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/the-passengers-341x220-1.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"220\" title=\"Image courtesy Astrea\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Astrea, the studio and publisher behind a host of VR narrative experiences, including <em>Spheres<\/em>, <em>Astra<\/em>, and <em>Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom<\/em>, has released an interactive VR experience on Quest and PC VR headsets that\u00a0lets you embody passengers on a train, and help them face pivotal moments in their lives.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-122351\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Called <em>The Passengers<\/em>, the four chapter, 40-minute interactive experience allows you to become one of four characters, experiencing their internal monologues and interacting with the environment with both your hands and voice.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Canada-based studio Couzin Films and France-based Les Produits Frais,\u00a0<em>The Passengers\u00a0<\/em>tells each story with a variety of styles, offering different visuals such as oil paint, watercolor, pencil, colored pencils, and immersive video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cL3jGY5p23k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"The Passengers Official Trailer\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this experience, you can be each one of the four passengers who all have their own personal quest. The course of each story is affected according to what they say, where they look, and what they do with their hands. You are one deciding all of that. The characters were created by volumetrically scanning the four actors. They were then rigged and animated through motion capture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While <em>The Passengers<\/em>\u00a0is new to consumer headsets, it\u2019s actually been on the international festival circuit since 2021 shortly after its completion.<\/p>\n<p>The experience won the Best Immersive Experience \u2013 Fiction award at the Canadian Screen Awards (2022), and was selected as a finalist at the Prix G\u00e9meaux (2022), Prix Numix (2021) and the VR Experience of the Year at the VR Awards (2021).<\/p>\n<p>You can find <em>The Passengers\u00a0<\/em>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/the-passengers\/8489272894426896\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Horizon Store<\/a> for Quest 2 and above, and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2258060\/The_Passengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> for PC VR headsets, priced at $5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/vr-story-studio-astrea-the-passengers-quest-3-steamvr\/\">Lauded VR Storytelling Studio Astrea Releases Latest Project on Quest &amp; PC VR<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/\">Road to VR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrea, the studio and publisher behind a host of VR narrative experiences, including Spheres, Astra, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom, has released an interactive VR experience on Quest and PC VR headsets that\u00a0lets you embody passengers on a train, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,110,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-unfiltered-rss","category-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}