Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio

Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. Google’s efforts on its VR program went full throttle in 2016 and early 2017 while the company sought to keep pace with Samsung which was aggressively hocking mobile hardware it had built alongside Oculus. It’s rumored the company made significant changes to its immersive divisions after Apple introduced ARKit in mid-2017, aggressively shifting resources from its VR division to AR projects like its ARCore mobile augmented reality platform.

Source: techcrunch.com