Neil Gaiman’s Wolves in the Walls will premiere as a VR experience at Sundance
Wolves in the Walls VR, a virtual reality adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s eponymous children’s book, will premiere at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. The episodic experience follows Gaiman’s story as participants play a character who can interact with its young protagonist Lucy, who is convinced that wolves live in the walls of her house. It’s being developed by former members of the now-defunct Oculus Story Studio, resurrecting a project that was believed to be canceled.
Wolves in the Walls’ creators describe it as “a VR fable about the nature of fear.” It’s supposed to evoke the illustrations of a children’s book, similar to what’s seen in the illustration itself, but it’s three-dimensional and...