Ubisoft's Notre-Dame Fire VR Experience Could Be the Future of Documentaries
Video games as a medium continue to evolve every year and because of the personal involvement of players, they can be a great way to experience stories. VR games have taken this to the next level by immersing players into locations and narratives as much as possible, an aspect that Ubisoft’s VR firefighting game is bound to amplify. The Notre-Dame on Fire experience that’s being developed by Ubisoft is in collaboration with a docudrama of the same name directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud that explores the efforts of Parisian firefighters on April 19, 2019, when the Notre-Dame cathedral erupted in a blaze.
It was a shocking moment that gripped much of the world as it happened. While the cathedral of Notre-Dame wasn’t completely lost the structure did suffer severe damage but has since been able to raise an astounding 1 billion euros for restorations. Still, what happened that day shocked many, and the effort that emergency services put into saving the historical site is noteworthy. As both the Notre-Dame on Fire VR experience and movie explore this, audiences around the world will be able to get a gauge of what actions were necessary to preserve the cathedral against all odds.
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This collaboration between Notre-Dame on Fire and its VR experience sets it apart from similar films that have been created over the years. Documentaries and docudramas as a whole can be informative and exciting ways to learn about the world around us but tying them into VR experiences points towards incredible possibilities in the future that are both engaging and accessible. While for some VR headsets are annoying the format still opens up a world of possibilities as demonstrated by the development of
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