{"id":339297,"date":"2017-04-26T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1481320"},"modified":"2017-04-26T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:00:06","slug":"be-the-alien-you-want-to-see-in-the-theaters-with-the-new-alien-covenant-vr-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/be-the-alien-you-want-to-see-in-the-theaters-with-the-new-alien-covenant-vr-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the alien you want to see in the theaters with the new Alien: Covenant VR experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the media push surrounding the premiere of Alien: Covenant (set to debut May 19th), Twentieth Century Fox and its compatriots are offering up a VR teaser\u00a0\u2014 Alien: Covenant In Utero.<\/p>\n

This non-Nirvana-related<\/a>\u00a0short puts an audience inside the moment of birth for Alien\u2019s eponymous aliens. The short (much like the album from which it does not take its name) is bloody, terrifying and incredible.<\/p>\n

In \u201cIn Utero,\u201d one can hear the terrified cries of the humans witnessing the alien birth, and the increasing heart beats \u2014 and bodily reactions \u2014 of the host as the \u201cneomorph\u201d struggles to burst free.<\/p>\n

The mini-experience, which clocks in at around 90 seconds or so, will be available tomorrow on the Oculus Video app through the Rift, or the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus. A 360 immersive trailer is also available on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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VR experiences are nothing new for Fox, which had its first foray into short- and long-form virtual reality with its teaser and virtual reality experience for another Ridley Scott creation, \u201cThe Martian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, moviegoers balked at paying $20 for a 30-minute virtual reality experience<\/a>, but Fox is hoping that the second time\u2019s the charm.<\/p>\n

Alongside RSA VR (the newly formed virtual reality division of Ridley and Tony Scott\u2019s studio<\/a>), FoxNext VR Studio, MPC VR<\/a> (a Technicolor company), sound engineering studio Mach1 Studios, AMD Radeon and Dell\u2019s Alienware gaming computers, Fox is taking the show on the road and will be hitting 15 Regal Cinemas movie theaters across the country to let moviegoers\u00a0try out what Fox hopes will be the next wave of entertainment.<\/p>\n

Beginning May 10th, a little over a week before the Alien: Covenant release, the In Utero show will be available across all mobile and tethered VR platforms, including Google\u2019s Daydream View, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the In Utero experience, audience participation is taken to a whole new level. You get to be a Neomorph, exploring what\u2019s happening around you and within you,\u201d Ridley Scott said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Scott, who produced the VR experience, handed directing reins over to newcomer Adam Karlak, who made a name for himself in the sci-fi film community with his short film Rise.<\/p>\n