[VIDEO] Google showcases future of video with first virtual reality Doodle

Today’s Google Doodle demonstrates that VR is the future of video content. The illustrated or animated image on the Google homepage is a fully immersive, virtual reality video, honoring French filmmaker Georges Méliès, a magician, filmmaker, and visual artist.

Styled in a way that will most likely remind viewers of a Disney or Pixar short film, the “Doodle starts with Méliès setting up a camera in front of a black-and-white scene showing the moon, several stars, and a rocket ship, likely a tribute to his famous film A Trip to the Moon. Similar references are made throughout the Doodle, including a scene in which a cartoon version of Méliès emerges from a giant playing card, as he does in his film The Living Playing Cards, which was released in 1905.”

Virtual reality devices are becoming more and more accessible and affordable. Just this week Facebook launched the new Oculus Go, a $200 stand-alone virtual reality headset. No doubt, others will soon likely follow, flooding the marketing with a wide array of virtual reality devices and the content is sure to follow.