Is Virtual Reality (VR) the “empathy machine”? What are the best practices of VR, a technology that is taking off in 2016?
Mark Atkin, curator of VR exhibitions at Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK’s biggest non-fiction film festival, spoke with the Thomson Reuters Foundation about the challenges of making VR films and how filmmakers can adapt their ways of storytelling.
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