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“Jesus VR” enables the viewers to Nazareth

In the middle of it: The first game movie in Virtual Reality provides a whole new Cinema experience. “Jesus VR – The Story of Christ” is just in time for Christmas will be available.

Tim fur Ingham plays Jesus in the Film “Jesus VR”

Here, you can feel the audience as a part of the action. Because “Jesus VR – The Story of Christ,” is the world’s first feature film in a virtual reality. He tells the life story of Jesus Christ. The audience will be treated with the help of special glasses, directly in the scenes of the film. You can enjoy a 360-degree all-round view and can see the baby Jesus lying in the manger, or to turn to the waiting shepherds.

The audience could move within the history by turning the head, from the explains Jette Jördis Wölk
Animation Institute of the filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in an interview with Deutsche Welle. “Dive in the pre-dangled reality, without an external screen dependent.”

New cinematic possibilities with VR

“VR films are Coming,” says Wölk. A active participation, such as video games, where a lot with interactive computer-generated environment is experimenting, but: “The Medium provides Directors, in whole new exciting ways to tell their stories and to stage.”

The film project “Jesus VR” is irritating to the expert, especially the challenge to tell an old story with new means. The crucial factor is the angle of view of the Director and his power of innovation to stay.

Sympathize with Jesus and his disciples

For the canadian production company “Autumn VR” plays, however, the biblical content of the film, the crucial role. On their website Autumn VR speaks, “” from the life of Christ as the “most powerful story of all time”.

A visitor to the Gamescom in Cologne with a VR-glasses

Through the use of Virtual Reality, the audience could feel Jesus and his disciples near, and his experiences relate to.

“Jesus VR” was filmed in October 2015 in Italy and will be on view from Christmas 2016 to VR devices such as Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear, or Oculus Rift. The main role of Tim fur Ingham, the spectators so far, especially from the movie “Final Destination 5″. Religious adviser to the film crew of The Passion of the Christ”, the American priest William Fulco was, as in the case of the Film”.