Watch Artist Wesley Allsbrook Create ‘Live’ in VR with Oculus’ ‘Quill’

This is footage of artist Wesley Allsbrook, using an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch motion controllers to paint in virtual 3D space in front of a live audience using Oculus Story Studio’s ‘professional’ VR paint package ‘Quill’.

At Sundance Yesterday, Oculus Story Studio unveiled its latest virtual reality film featuring artwork that was created whilst the artist was in VR. The artist responsible for Dear Angelica, a painterly, surreal looking work, Wesley Allsbrook, insisted on being able to work within the medium she was creating for – which forces Oculus Story Studio’s to get creative with their tool-set. Thus, Quill was born, a tool created to facilitate creativity in VR and specifically for Dear Angelica.

At Sundance, Allsbrook demonstrated the beauty and fluidity of what was possible in the new application when she took to the stage at the festival and created in front of a live audience, using Quill. The video above was captured by Road to VR’s Chris Madsen and, although it’s a little shaky in places, it gives you an idea of what an artist at work natively in a virtual medium looks like.

We’ll be back soon with more on Dear Angelica and Quill, in the mean time, enjoy the show.