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planetarian VR Video Debuts With 5 Episodes

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
VR video funded through crowdfunding campaign

Visual Art's/Key's official planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume on Saturday. Visual Art's/Key released the VR anime in the Anime VR SCREEN section of the 360 Channel website on Saturday with five episodes.

The 360-degree virtual-reality video features "Yumemi Hoshino's starry sky explanation" scene from the net anime. D & D Pictures, which produced a special planetarium project for the anime that debuted in March, returned to produce the new anime video. The anime utilizes the latest 3D motion capture technology to create Yumemi's facial expressions and motions.

The VR video was funded through a Campfire crowdfunding reached its goal in two days. The campaign ended on January 18.

The planetarian anime project includes a five-episode anime planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume (planetarian: The Dream of the Small Star), which premiered in July 2016, and the adapts the main game's story, while the film is "another story" about what happens to Kuzuya afterward.

release the anime alongside the film in a Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and Digital HD release on August 14.

Visual Art's/Key (PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable consoles. The story takes place 30 years after a world war put a halt to space development. The protagonist, simply known as "the Junk Hunter," attempts to restore a planetarium's projector after meeting a robot.

released an English version for iOS.

Source: Visual Art's/Key's YouTube channel


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