Robert Rodriguez’s THE LIMIT: An Immersive Cinema Experience

Absolutely horrible. One of the worst written, shot, and directed VR movies I've ever seen. Minus the all-star cast, everything else about it was bad. I won't even get into the two or three good things, because they're completely drowned out by the bad and I don't want you to get the wrong impression that this is work is redeemable. First, you should know: I'm a fan of VR180 and 360 video. I have watched them for over half a decade now, and I even was the manager of a 360 video app for a year. So let me say it's clear to me that no one who worked on the pre-production or production of The Limit has ANY experience with VR180 or 360 video. There were a variety of amateur mistakes, from the awkward writing with no context of the medium, to the uncomfortable movements of the camera, to varying height of the camera leading to scale errors in much of the film. If they hired anyone with experience on this film, they either had no power to inform it's direction or they wholesale ignored them. The launcher is also horrible. It's multiple flat panels in the back of a 3D movie theater? It's definitely the worst UX for a video launcher I've ever seen. Ultimately, it's a film that makes the viewer physically uncomfortable, with an awful story that's barely coherent, and has the viewer awkwardly waiting for the actors to pretend to finish listening to the unspeaking main character. I have, LITERALLY, seen better/more compelling VR180 and 360 video from 48 hour film festivals. If indie teams of 6 people with a $0 budget, a consumer grade camera, and an old MacBook Pro can make a better video than this in two days, what's STX Surreal and Robert Rodriguez's excuse? Who greenlit this, how much was the budget, and who's running the show over there? If they let this out the door, all involved shouldn't be allowed to EVER make a VR movie again.

Not bad for a proof of concept, but feel a little cheated paying more than a dollar for it. First have to say I didn't feel sick during it at all, but then I never do and sick of that dominating reviews of VR stuff. If you can't take the movement, get out of the kitchen. With that out the way, This was a bit disappointing for me, I've seen many VR videos which look far better than this, unfortunately they are porn (but had more convincing interactions with the viewer). The definition is a bit low, it looks worse than many videos I've seen which are 3840x2160 SBS 3D 180. It seems the movie is in 30fps or less which I don't think cuts it for VR which is all about immersion, the 3D as well was a let down, converted 3D looks crappy at the best of times but in VR there's even less chance of fooling. The movie needed to have been shot in stereo, looking at the making of they used a Single lens 180 degree 2D camera. Then all the 3D was done in post, which shows as only very occasionally does anything look 3D. I haven't even talked about the actual plot or writing. I'm sorry to say the plot is so formulaic and dull I can't even get interested. But then as I said at the start this is a proof of concept. I can't recommend this as I was quite let down paying £3.99 for this. If it had been much cheaper I would have been less harsh on it but the technical choices let the film down. My recommendations for future films: Shoot in 3D. Less green screen and digital enhancements. More energetic performances and wittier dialogue. It doesn't have to be first person, the camera is always a character in a good film, even if they don't say or do anything. One positive note I'd say is there's a bit walking down corridors near the end of the film worked well not moving the camera sideways, just letting the viewer look around.

I think this deserves a thumbs up, as far as I know this is one of the first VR short movies, it is still such early days for this kinda of content so I can't knock it down as I feel there is still so much for movie makers to discover about making movies in VR, new techniques are needed and they can't be discovered with out our support other wise they may not continue making them and I would like people to continue making more and discover what works best, Hollywood has had decades to perfect movie making for 2D cinema, this is a whole new frontier and is a great attempt at it and it has some great moments. If I were to give some constructive criticism the camera that has been used for stereoscopic 3D makes objects and people at times seem like cardboard cut outs, if the movie player wasn't locked to a default player which I can't change and instead used something like Whirlgig then it might have been possible for me to fix the perspectives to match my eyes. My advice to any directors that are planning to make similar content would be to consult with some of the people making professional Adult VR content, find out what cameras they are using and how they get near perfect perspectives, they seem to be pioneering filming VR movies and mastering the techniques, similarly they pioneered online payments back in the early days of the Internet, so they have a good track record for being able to invent new ways to do something... That's just my 2 cents :-D

Fantastic. For sure would buy more of these. There is room for improvement on the technical side, but that does not take away from the experience. We need to signal to the creators that we like this by buying it and encouraging them to make more of these. I'd love a high quality full length film in VR. Especially with this grade of actor. Its cool stuff and well worth the price.

I think I sat for nearly ten minutes after this had finished, just gobsmacked at how bad it was in every aspect.

They are trying something new and for a couple of bucks its worth the experience. Cant hurt...

Haven't been able to see a single frame of movie. Initial theater scene loads but movie won't play. I do hear some audio. It's as disapointing as going to the movies and finding out the projector is broken.