Andrew was a member of a panel discussing Virtual Reality and the impact it is already having on the VFX community and entertainment at large at the 2015 VES Summit. The Hollywood Reporter covered the discussion here:
The emerging virtual reality arena “could be the saving grace” of Hollywood’s struggling visual effects community, asserted Andrew Cochrane, interactive and new media director at Guillermo del Toro‘s Mirada Studios, during the Visual Effects Society’s production summit Saturday at the W Hollywood.
He added that there are filmmaking roles that won’t be as vital for VR production, but “for [the] next two to five years, it can’t exist without the people in this room, and it’s a chance to keep jobs in Los Angeles. There’s a window right now for creative people to stake their claim. You can’t outsource creativity.”
As did the VR Journal here:
When members of the Visual Effects Society (VES) get together these days, a hot topic of conversation is virtual reality.
Why?
“The emerging virtual reality arena “could be the saving grace” of Hollywood’s struggling visual effects community,” according to Andrew Cochrane, interactive and new media director at Guillermo del Toro’s Mirada Studios.
It’s also, said Cochrane, “a chance to keep jobs in Los Angeles. There’s a window right now for creative people to stake their claim.”